◎ Science and Technology Daily reporter Liu Yan
The war between humans and viruses continues, and AI has reached out.
It is reported that the AI algorithm "LinearDesign" developed in China designed the most stable new crown mRNA vaccine sequence in 10 minutes, improving the effectiveness of the vaccine. The Chinese AI is the fastest project of its kind in the world; the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and pharmaceutical giant Sanofi are using it to promote vaccine and drug research and development.
Quietly, AI has become a new business card for China's high technology. A series of Ai "killer skills" independently developed by China are out of their sheaths and shine on authoritative lists such as "MIT Technology of the Year".
On December 27, Baidu founder, chairman and CEO Robin Li predicted at the Baidu AI Developer Conference that China will usher in the golden decade of AI; in the next decade, AI will significantly reduce the technical threshold and provide a "big base" for all walks of life to be intelligent.
Integrate into a hundred lines of industry
The mRNA vaccine is the dream technology of the vaccine industry, which can be produced rapidly on a large scale at the beginning of the epidemic, but it is particularly difficult to design a stable mRNA vaccine sequence. LinearDesign, the industry's first mRNA vaccine design algorithm developed in China, can find out in just ten minutes.
Research on AI-optimized COVID-19 mRNA vaccines in China was recently published on a preprinted website. The optimized COVID-19 mRNA vaccine has completed preclinical studies. Animal experiments have shown that linearDesign's design of the new crown vaccine sequence stability is greatly improved, and the antibodies are particularly effective. In addition to vaccines, this AI can also design cancer drugs.
China's AI "dark horse" is not only the world's first mRNA vaccine gene sequence design algorithm LinearDesign launched by Baidu Research Institute.
Wang Haifeng, chief technology officer of Baidu, said: "With the development and large-scale application of AI technology, the intelligent upgrading of all walks of life is getting deeper and deeper, and AI has been integrated into our production and life. ”
For example, in Shouguang, Shandong, the "hometown of Chinese vegetables", the AI "Shouguang Brain" has realized the intelligence of vegetable production, and only two staff members plus an APP can manage dozens of vegetable greenhouses. In the field, fellow villagers can chat with AI farmers, learn agronomy and pest disposal, and become agricultural experts.
In the field of quantum computing on the tall, the domestic quantum computing cloud platform, from the application to the quantum processor, one-stop service, lowers the threshold for quantum computing learning and application, and allows quantum computing to enter the fields of chemistry, finance and materials.
In the core area of Baoding, Hebei Province, motor vehicles grew by 7% a year, but after AI took over traffic command in some sections, the congestion index fell by 6% in one year. In Guangzhou's Huangpu District, after the introduction of AI, the average number of times each vehicle encountered a red light dropped from three or four times to about 1. It is said that if all intersections in a city are controlled by AI to optimize the traffic lights, the traffic efficiency can be increased by 15%-30%. Robin Li boldly predicted that intelligent transportation will make China's first-tier cities no longer need to restrict purchases and traffic within 5 years, and basically solve congestion within 10 years.
If you don't understand computers, you can also engage in AI development
"Let's create an ink painting together." Here is a continuous mountain range, the mountain is covered with clouds, and at the foot of the mountain there is a grass hall built on the river, and there is a boat on the river, and a man stands at the bow of the boat; then there is a line of birds flying across the sky. Okay, then the painting is finished. With Wang Haifeng's voice, an ink painting slowly appeared on the screen, which was made by Baidu Brain, and it also made a seven-word poem according to the content and artistic conception of the painting.
As Wang Haifeng said, behind various AI applications is the more powerful AI capabilities brought about by the knowledge enhancement model, as well as the integration of speech, vision, natural language processing, knowledge graph and other technologies.
China's first self-developed industry-grade deep learning platform "Flying Propeller" makes AI applications very simple. It can not only support scientists to engage in cutting-edge sciences such as quantum computing, life sciences, computational fluid dynamics, molecular dynamics, etc., but also be used in some particularly grassroots undertakings.
A college student in Gulang County, Gansu Province, wants to develop a robot that automatically shuttles through the desert to plant grass and trees to help control sand in his hometown. Although he does not understand computers, he read the instructions on the "flying oar" and learned from scratch to develop a prototype robot whose intelligence is given by the flying oar.
Another PhD student, working on language conservation in Yunnan and Guangxi, used the visual and text processing capabilities of the flying paddle platform to develop a dictionary of endangered languages project, which significantly reduced the difficulty of translating endangered languages into Chinese.
According to Robin Li, 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 paddles to make the hardware intelligent. At present, the flying propeller platform has served more than 157,000 enterprises and institutions, dozens of industries, and created 476,000 models.
Infrastructure in the age of intelligence
At all levels of AI technology, China has world-leading projects.
For example, the world's first knowledge enhancement model "Wenxin", which receives 550 billion pieces of knowledge, can understand multiple languages, and accurately grasps complex language application scenarios. Its training efficiency and understanding accuracy have won many championships in international authoritative reviews.
Among them, plato-XL, the world's first 10-billion-level parameter pre-trained dialogue generation model, can carry out "logical, contentable, interesting" Chinese and English multi-wheel human-computer dialogue interaction. The conversational artificial intelligence it has trained can be playful and cute, or it can be sophisticated and deep, and it can easily integrate into various natural language scenes.
Today, Baidu Brain has developed into the world's leading artificial intelligence platform. The series of digital people created on the basis of it have spread across all walks of life. Baidu Brain's daily invocation volume exceeded 1 trillion times, becoming a new type of infrastructure to help all walks of life...
Wang Haifeng said: "The leading AI capabilities not only support Baidu's comprehensive development, explore cutting-edge fields such as biological computing and quantum computing, but also implement important areas related to the national economy and people's livelihood such as manufacturing, energy, finance, urban construction, and rural revitalization through Baidu's intelligent cloud." ”
Some industry experts pointed out that China has massive data and rich scenarios, a sound industrial chain and innovation incentive policies, and the soil for AI growth is very deep.
Source: Science and Technology Daily The picture in the article is provided by Baidu
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