Representative Liu Qingfeng: Use artificial intelligence core technology to solve the proposition of the times

"The development of artificial intelligence is in the ascendant, it is a forward-looking cutting-edge technology, and it is also the core driving force of a new round of industrial change." On March 3, Liu Qingfeng, a deputy to the National People's Congress, director of the National Engineering Laboratory for Speech and Language Information Processing, and chairman of iFLYTEK, once again went to Beijing to attend the two sessions of the National People's Congress with a number of suggestions from the deputies.

▲Liu Qingfeng

As a scientific and technological practitioner in the field of artificial intelligence, Liu Qingfeng has witnessed the rapid development of artificial intelligence in China on the way to perform his duties as a deputy to the National People's Congress for 20 consecutive years. He believes that the broad prospects and strategic significance of the artificial intelligence industry are becoming increasingly prominent, not only leading the global scientific and technological revolution and industrial wave, but also going deep into the lives of more people like water and electricity.

Promote artificial intelligence as a national strategy

Over the past 20 years, Liu Qingfeng has actively provided suggestions and suggestions for the development of the industry around the development and strategic planning of the artificial intelligence industry, the promotion of social progress by artificial intelligence, and the help of new technologies to alleviate poverty, and his suggestions have been highly valued by relevant ministries and commissions, and a number of suggestions have been adopted and implemented.

Combing through liu Qingfeng's performance of his duties, it is impossible not to mention that artificial intelligence has risen to a national strategy.

iFLYTEK, founded by Liu Qingfeng, is rooted in the field of artificial intelligence and intelligent voice, artificial intelligence has always been the focus of Liu Qingfeng's proposals for the two sessions, he has repeatedly clarified its important role in promoting the development of national society, and suggested that "artificial intelligence +" be elevated to a national strategy, systematic planning, accelerated layout, and seize the commanding heights of global industry.

At the two sessions in 2015, Liu Qingfeng took the lead in proposing a number of proposals such as "Suggestions on Formulating a National Artificial Intelligence Strategy and Accelerating the Layout of Artificial Intelligence" and "Suggestions on Accelerating the Promotion of Artificial Intelligence and the Chinese Brain Plan, Establishing a National Artificial Intelligence Comprehensive Pilot Zone, and Promoting Industrial Transformation and Upgrading", which have been highly valued by the State Council.

In July 2016, the State Council issued the "13th Five-Year Plan for National Science and Technology Innovation", which clearly proposed to carry out "brain science and brain-like research", and artificial intelligence became the top priority. In December 2016, the State Council issued the "13th Five-Year Plan" National Strategic Emerging Industry Development Plan, which clearly proposed to "develop artificial intelligence." Cultivate the artificial intelligence industry ecology, promote the promotion and application of artificial intelligence in key economic and social areas, and create an internationally leading technology system. ”

At the two sessions in 2017, Liu Qingfeng put forward 9 suggestions on the development of artificial intelligence, involving a series of plans from the formulation of technological innovation standards at the source, the construction of industrial ecology to the relevant legal system, and ethics and humanities.

Subsequently, in 2017, the State Council issued the "New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan", which comprehensively proposed the overall path of the development of a new generation of artificial intelligence in the mainland, so that artificial intelligence rose to the height of national strategy; at the same time, from 2017 to 2019, artificial intelligence appeared in the government work report for three consecutive years, and for the first time in the 2019 report, "intelligent +" was proposed to empower the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry.

Promote the development of education and health society

In recent years, artificial intelligence as an infrastructure construction, especially in the education and medical industries.

Liu Qingfeng has insisted on visiting schools and medical front-line units for many years, going deep into education, health and other departments, and conducting key research on how artificial intelligence can empower the national economy and people's livelihood.

In the field of education, Liu Qingfeng suggested that through the monitoring, analysis and mining of education big data, personalized learning, teaching and guidance services should be provided for students, teachers and parents, providing support for basic education reform, allowing students to enjoy personalized education based on their aptitudes, and accelerating the rapid promotion and application of innovative teaching application results throughout the country.

Liu Qingfeng introduced that iFLYTEK and Beijing Normal University have successfully released the education big data application model system and the education big data application platform, providing a better implementation foundation for the Ministry of Education's "National Basic Education Big Data R&D and Application Demonstration Project". Based on artificial intelligence and big data technology, the automatic analysis of students' classroom exercises, after-school homework and examination data provides each child with different personalized homework, helping students reduce their academic burden, improve learning efficiency, improve subject ability, and implement the educational concept of "teaching according to their aptitude".

At present, smart education products have cooperated with more than 50,000 schools across the country and served more than 100 million teachers and students.

In the field of medical treatment, Liu Qingfeng found that the current structural problems of relative lack of high-quality medical resources and insufficient capacity of primary medical services restrict the effective development of graded diagnosis and treatment. In the "Suggestions on Promoting the Construction of "Healthy China" through Artificial Intelligence and Helping grassroots medical staff to train and manage chronic diseases", he proposed to use artificial intelligence to improve the work efficiency of doctors, improve the service capabilities of doctors, and promote the improvement of grassroots medical level.

Today, iFLYTEK provides artificial intelligence auxiliary diagnosis and treatment services for grassroots doctors, and builds an innovative model of human-machine collaboration of primary medical services, as of the end of February 2022, the smart medical assistant has covered more than 200 districts and counties across the country, serving 30,000 medical institutions, serving more than 50,000 grassroots doctors, and providing more than 340 million auxiliary diagnostic services, effectively improving the level of diagnosis and treatment services at the grassroots level.

Use core technology to solve the proposition of the times

"Although the mainland has entered the 'no man's land' of artificial intelligence in a number of source core technologies such as intelligent voice and machine translation, in some key areas of artificial intelligence, the mainland is still far from the world-class level." Liu Qingfeng said.

To this end, in 2019, in the "Suggestions on Further Strengthening the Basic Research of Artificial Intelligence", he advocated strengthening the research of artificial intelligence core technologies and actively exploring the human-machine coupling model in line with the future application trend of artificial intelligence, so as to facilitate faster landing in the development process of the artificial intelligence industry.

Based on their own positions, Liu Qingfeng and his team are actively exploring the "no man's land" at the forefront of artificial intelligence technology to ensure that the mainland occupies the commanding heights of key core technologies in this field. During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, iFLYTEK has won more than 40 international championships in top competitions, involving key areas of artificial intelligence such as speech synthesis, speech, machine reading comprehension, machine translation, and graphic recognition, and promoting the application of technology in practice.

During the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, iFLYTEK provided automatic translation and related hard-core technologies such as multilingual speech conversion, speech recognition and speech synthesis to speak with technology to help achieve barrier-free communication inside and outside the arena.

Once again embarking on the journey of the Two Sessions of the National People's Congress, Liu Qingfeng's briefcase still carries the suggestions of the representatives of the Two Sessions of the National People's Congress, and he hopes to continue to integrate the core technology of artificial intelligence to meet the needs of society and help solve the propositions in the development of the times. "Start with the end, and see the sun through the clouds." Entering the new journey of the '14th Five-Year Plan', iFLYTEK will continue to deepen its business, meet the future of artificial intelligence with systematic innovation, and build a better world with artificial intelligence! Liu Qingfeng said.

Upstream journalist Li Shu