Canton Tower Science & Technology Conference kicked off in Guangzhou on May 25th, lasting for two days. Themed "Embrace the Unknown! Think Different!", the conference has attracted over 110 renowned scholars, entrepreneurs, investors, and experts from various fields around the world to Guangzhou to exchange their ideas of technological development and seek high-quality development paths. The Father of the Metaverse and the Queen of artificial intelligence also appeared at the conference.
IDC data shows that the expenditure on AI will reach $154 billion in 2023 globally, and AI-related industry expenditure will exceed $300 billion by 2026. A new trend of artificial intelligence is sweeping across the globe.
Father of Metaverse: Metaverse is an "old" idea from 30 years ago
Neal Stephenson, the father of the metaverse, and author of the science fiction masterpiece Snow Crash, made a virtual appearance by video at the conference and delivered a speech.
He said that Metaverse is an "old" idea in his work 30 years ago, but recent breakthroughs in game engines, networks, display technology, decentralized finance, and artificial intelligence have prepared Metaverse to become an area to grow rapidly in the next decade. He also hopes to have more exchanges with Chinese colleagues. From the perspective of investors and consumers, China enjoys a high passion for technology, games, and entertainment, and he looks forward to working together with China to make a better future possible.
Queen of AI: Eliminating People's Fear of AI with Knowledge
Justine Cassell, SCS Dean's Professor and former dean in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, and also Director of Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique (INRIA), gave a speech on "From Large Language Model to ChatGPT: The Language Revolution of the AI Era."
She said that a large language model (LLM) is an AI system that requires data, models, and algorithms of thousands, tens of thousands, or even more. Transparency is one of the cores for the development of AI and large language models in the future for it will allow people to understand their operation clearly and eliminate the fear of technology with knowledge. To achieve this, it is necessary to provide young people with technical education, AI economy education, psychological education, and so on.
Zheng Yongnian: Achieving high-quality development through continuous industrial upgrading with technology innovation
Zheng Yongnian, Chairman of the Guangzhou Institute of GBA delivered a speech on "How Technology Innovation Promotes China's High-Quality Development". Continuous technological progress requires three conditions: a large number of universities and institutions engaged in basic scientific research, a large number of enterprises and institutions capable of transforming basic scientific research into application, and financial services to support basic research and its application. Scientists' and engineers' academic interests and pursuits drive them to conduct basic scientific research, while the government should provide them with the conditions for their pursuits. In brief, the government is responsible for supporting basic scientific research, enterprises are engaged in technology transfer, and venture capital supports the transfer financially.
The father of the metaverse "debuted" in Guangzhou
The "father of the metaverse" is "coming", and the queen of artificial intelligence is also here! On May 25, the two-day 2023 Xiaomanwaist Technology Conference and AIGC Artificial Intelligence Summit opened in Guangzhou. The theme of this year's conference is "Welcome to the unknown!" Think Different！ With the theme, more than 110 well-known scholars, entrepreneurs and investors from all over the world and other experts in various fields gathered in Guangzhou to exchange and discuss scientific and technological development and find high-quality development paths.
According to IDC data, global AI spending will reach $154 billion in 2023, and AI-related industry-scale spending will exceed $300 billion by 2026. A new wave of development in the field of artificial intelligence is sweeping the world.
Father of the Cloud Universe: The metaverse was an "old" idea 30 years ago
Neil Stephenson, the father of the metaverse, science fiction writer and author of the science fiction masterpiece "Snow Crash", "appeared" at the conference by video and delivered a speech.
He said the "metaverse" was an "old" idea in his work from 30 years ago, but recent breakthroughs in game engines, networks, display technology, decentralized finance and artificial intelligence have created the potential for the metaverse to become a major growth area over the next decade. He also hopes to have more exchanges with his counterparts in China, which has a high passion for technology, gaming and entertainment from an investor and consumer perspective, and looks forward to working together to make a better future possible.
Queen of AI: Dispel people's fear of AI with knowledge
Justin Cassel, Chair Professor and former Associate Dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, known as the "Queen of Artificial Intelligence", and Research Director of the French National Institute of Information and Automation, delivered a speech on the theme of "From Big Language Model to Chat GPT: Language Revolution in the Age of AI".
She said that the big language model (LLM) is an AI system that requires thousands, tens of thousands or even more of data integration, models and algorithms. For AI and big language models, one of the future development factors is transparency, so that people can clearly understand how it works, and use knowledge to eliminate fear. To this end, it is necessary to provide young people with technical education, AI economic attribute education, psychology education, etc.
Zheng Yongnian: Use continuous technological progress in industrial upgrading to achieve high-quality development
Zheng Yongnian, Chairman of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Research Institute in Guangzhou, delivered a keynote speech on "How Scientific and Technological Innovation Promotes China's High-quality Development". It is mentioned that sustainable technological progress contains three conditions: there must be a large number of universities or institutions capable of engaging in basic scientific research, a large number of enterprises or institutions that can transform basic scientific research into applied technology, and financial services and financial support that can support basic research and applied technology. Basic scientific research comes from the hobbies and pursuits of the academic interests of scientists and engineers, and the state should provide them with conditions to pursue their hobbies. The government is responsible for basic scientific research, enterprises are responsible for technology transformation, and venture capital supports technology transformation. (For more news, please pay attention to Yangcheng Pai pai.ycwb.com)
Text, picture丨Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Li Gang, Zou Lizhen
Translation丨Bai Xinyi
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