"In the next 10 years, AI will become a powerful tool to change the world, thousands of industries will be reconstructed, people's living space will be greatly expanded, and the value of technology will be fully developed." Baidu founder, chairman and CEO Robin Li said at the Baidu AI Developer Conference on the 27th.
Robin Li said in his speech that China has massive data and rich scenarios, but also has a perfect industrial chain, but also has a policy to encourage innovation and creation, is a deep soil for the growth of AI, in the era of "human-machine symbiosis", will usher in the golden decade of AI.
As the head of Baidu's AI open platform, Robin Li believes that what he and Baidu do is provide an "AI toolbox" that changes the world.
So, what is in Baidu's "AI toolbox" that Robin Li said?
Robin Li has introduced many times on different occasions that Baidu Flying Propeller is an industry-grade deep learning platform with independent research and development, rich functions, open source and open source, which is equivalent to the "operating system in the intelligent era".
"As long as you have some of the most basic computer operation foundation, have a certain text understanding ability, even if you don't know anything about the algorithm, you can design and generate AI models through flying propellers, so that the hardware can be intelligent." Robin Li said at the meeting site.
Robin Li showed the latest achievements of Baidu's flying propeller platform to the outside world, and his proud flying propeller has gathered 4.06 million developers, served more than 157,000 enterprises and institutions, covered dozens of industries, and created 476,000 models.
But Baidu doesn't stop there. Robin Li said that in Baidu's "AI toolbox", another "legendary" weapon is a big model.
Not long ago, Baidu released the big model brand "Wenxin". Since 2019, Baidu has trained a large model with massive general knowledge, and the "Wenxin" big model is a large model of knowledge enhancement that achieves landing. At present, Baidu "Wenxin" has been opened to the public through the Baidu Flying Propeller platform, and has been applied to industry, energy, finance, communications, media, education and other industries on a large scale.
Behind the above AI tools, the strong support is Baidu Brain. Robin Li said that Baidu Brain is the culmination of AI technology accumulation and industrial practice. After years of research and development, Baidu Brain not only prepares an "AI toolbox" for creators, but also provides a technical "big base" for the intelligent transformation of society and industry.
According to reports, Baidu Brain's daily call volume exceeded 1 trillion times, and the Flying Propeller Deep Learning Platform, Kunlun Chip, as well as core AI technologies and platforms such as speech, vision, knowledge graph, and natural language processing, have become a new type of infrastructure to help all walks of life.
Robin Li believes that the "AI toolbox" is built by the creators and should be used by the creators. "Baidu's mission is to 'make the complex world simpler with technology', we provide a technology platform for institutions and creators without technical resources and R&D capabilities, so that everyone can do what they are good at and jointly promote the development of the entire artificial intelligence technology."
At the scene, Robin Li discussed a future-oriented question with everyone: What new development space will AI open up for us?
He talked about the new development space brought by AI from the aspect of intelligent transportation. He believes that intelligent transportation can solve three major problems: First, reduce road safety accidents by 90%. Second, the system solves the congestion problem. Third, autonomous driving and intelligent transportation can help reduce carbon emissions.
At the meeting, Robin Li introduced the latest progress of Jidu automotive robots: in the first half of 2022, Jidu will announce the first concept car, and in 2023, mass production and delivery of the first automotive robot. The automotive robot developed by Jidu will have L4 level automatic driving capabilities, running through the three major product concepts of "free movement", "natural communication" and "self-growth".
Robin Li believes that revolutionary car robots with emotion and intelligence will bring about a long-term change in the way travel is done.
AI will not only reconstruct the future industrial pattern, but also carry the dream of human exploration of the unknown. Not long ago, Baidu and China reached a strategic partnership with China's lunar exploration space project, and the two sides will carry out cooperation in space technology and artificial intelligence technology in the field of deep space exploration, including lunar exploration and planetary exploration.
At the conference site, Li Yanhong and Ouyang Ziyuan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, conducted a "lunar dialogue" across time and space. Robin Li believes that the two major capabilities of perception and control possessed by AI will have a wide range of application space in the aerospace industry, which can make the future Chinese lunar research station more intelligent, and can also be applied to unattended scientific exploration and the development and utilization of resources. ”
Ouyang Ziyuan said that China's deep space exploration has made great achievements, the future establishment of lunar scientific research stations, the realization of manned landing on the moon, and to Mars and more distant deep space, will be the next step in China's aerospace, AI will certainly be deeply integrated with spaceflight, play a huge role.
Every technological innovation will promote the progress of human civilization and prompt people to think about where civilization is going. Robin Li firmly believes that a new artificial intelligence society is coming. "The more people involved, the faster the technology will be iterated, and the faster the next technological revolution will come." (China Economic Network reporter Ma Changyan)