The fire that ChatGPT ignited in the field of AI burned from last year to this year. AIGC (artificial intelligence generated content) represented by ChatGPT is popular around the world, and a number of representative AI models have emerged, and many people in the industry are shouting that the "AI 2.0 era" with human-machine intelligent integration as the main feature has arrived.
Some are excited about the vast prospects of AI leading the future, while others are caught in fear that their professions will be replaced by AI. What changes will AI 2.0 bring us? How far is strong AI? What are the new trends and technologies in the field of AI...?
Welcome to the new column "AI Big Bang", where we will discuss the development trend of AI, and welcome readers and friends to leave messages to join the discussion. In the first issue, we first approached a group of bigwigs to hear what insights these trendsetters at the forefront of science and technology have on the current hot AI.
01
Bill gates
Co-founder of Microsoft Corporation
OpenAI's GPT AI model is the most significant technological advancement I've seen since I first saw modern graphical desktop environments (GUIs) in 1980. The development of artificial intelligence, as important as the birth of microprocessors, personal computers, the Internet and mobile phones, will change the way people work, study, travel, access healthcare, and communicate with each other, and entire industries will re-adapt around it.
02
Jensen Wong
Founder and CEO of NVIDIA
ChatGPT is the most powerful democratization in computer history. The growth in the capabilities of generative AI models represented by GPT-4 is the 'new era of computing', everyone can be a programmer, and the 'iPhone moment' of AI has arrived.
03
Elon Musk
Twitter owner and CEO
CEO of Tesla and founder of SpaceX
ChatGPT is too good to be scary. We are not far from dangerous strong artificial intelligence ... Artificial intelligence is one of the biggest risks facing future civilizations... It has both positive and negative sides, and it has great prospects and capabilities.
It is worth noting that at the end of March, thousands of people jointly called off giant AI research and development, warning that AI tools "pose a far-reaching risk to society and mankind", and Musk was also prominently listed. According to relevant media reports, Musk founded a company called X.AI in the United States on March 9, which has recently purchased thousands of GPUs to power the upcoming generative artificial intelligence products.
04
Tim cook
CEO of Apple
At present, the speed of global innovation in artificial intelligence and other aspects is very rapid, these technologies will have a significant impact on human beings, as the inventor of technology, we must ensure that people use these technologies correctly, so that technology can help humans. This is a great responsibility for any technology inventor.
05
Andy Jassy
CEO of Amazon
Most companies want to use large language models, but really good language models take billions of dollars to train for many years, and most companies don't want to go through that. They want to start working with an already strong base model and then be able to customize it for their purposes.
In mid-April, Amazon launched a new AI platform called Bedrock, designed to compete with other products from companies in the generative AI space like OpenAI.
06
Warren Buffett
Famous global investor
Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway
I think ChatGPT is an incredible technological advancement in terms of demonstrating our capabilities, but I don't know if it's beneficial... Humans will continue to develop new technologies, but they don't know what the results will be. Just like the invention of the atomic bomb in 1945, it was incredible, but it also had consequences that people could not have imagined at the time.
07
Charlie Munger
American investor, Warren Buffett Gold Partner
The principle of ChatGPT is very simple, but it is actually quite difficult to do it in engineering... It relied on a mathematical model, and this mathematical model existed in 1972, only today it has very strong computing power, calculated by brute force ... ChatGPT is not a new technological revolution.
09
Li
Chairman of Baidu
It doesn't really make much sense for startups to redo a ChatGPT, there are great opportunities to develop applications based on large language models, there is no need to reinvent the wheel... In 10 years, 50% of the world's jobs will be prompt engineering, and people who can't write prompts will be eliminated.
10
Lee?
AI AI trend expert
Chairman and CEO of Innovation Factory
If AI 1.0 is like inventing electricity, AI 2.0 is the power grid. AI 2.0 will be a huge platform opportunity, this opportunity will be ten times larger than the mobile Internet, all user entrances and interfaces on the new platform will be rewritten, and companies that can build the next generation of platforms will gain huge advantages and voice. Everyone will become an AI 2.0 programmer.
On whether AI will threaten the human profession
The bigwigs also expressed their views ↓↓↓
Bill Gates: AI will not threaten human livelihoods, "there will be no fewer teachers, there will be no fewer doctors". In the long run, increasing efficiency can reduce people's working hours because when AI takes over routine tasks, employees can focus on more important work. When people talk about AI, they should strike a "balance" between the fear of bias, mistakes, or unfriendliness about it and its potential to improve lives.
Wu Jun: ChatGPT is not a new technological revolution, it affects people who are lazy, too lazy to use their brains and create new things. Those who truly explore the mysteries of human knowledge will not be replaced.
Kai-Fu Lee: AI 2.0 will not be general artificial intelligence. While there is so much more that can be done than humans, it can't completely cover everything. Because human creativity, thinking and self-awareness, empathy and love cannot be replaced by AI.
Robin Li: "How many jobs are replaced is only part of it, and the other part is that there are more new opportunities that we can't even imagine now." ”
Mid-April
Michael Dell in an interview with CRN
Perceptions of artificial intelligence were also discussed
Michael Dell
Chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies
The fastest growing workloads in our ISG business are driven by AI and machine intelligence, and they have been for some time. And this generative artificial intelligence, large language models will only accelerate this process.
I think AI is incredibly exciting and interesting technology that is unleashing the power of data, and it's a great thing for all of us to reimagine how our organizations and the world will work as the cost of cognitive power moves towards zero. How can we make all our teams more efficient.
It is true that in the era of AI 2.0, with the continuous development of large-scale language models with tens of thousands of parameters, the demand for computing power will be brought to a new height. Dell's next-generation server PowerEdge XE9680 is built to enhance advanced workloads, powered by Intel's 4th generation Intel Xeon processors, with a high core count of up to 56 cores and the largest GPU memory and bandwidth available today, allowing users to deploy large-scale computing anywhere.
Customers can choose between eight NVIDIA H100 700W SXM5 for extreme performance or eight NVIDIA A100 500W SXM4 GPUs to balance performance and power and fully interconnect with NVIDIA NVLink technology. The GPU-GPU communication bandwidth is as high as 900GB/s, and the training performance has been improved, which is 1.5 times that of the previous generation product.
The XE9680 features accelerated I/O throughput capabilities, including technologies such as DDR5, NVLink, PCIe Gen 5.0, and NVMe SSD. With up to 10 front-facing PCIe Gen5 slots and up to 16 drives, the server enables expansion of high-performance real-time AI operations. It also supports NVIDIA GDS (GPUDirect Memory), which is a direct data path for DMA transfers between GPU memory and storage, increasing system bandwidth and reducing latency and utilization load on the CPU.
In particular, in the latest list of MLPerf 3.0, the world's authoritative AI benchmark, in early April, the PowerEdge XE9680 participated in 12 tests in the data center track, scoring a total of 3 first and 9 second; Compared with the previous MLPerf Inference v2.1, the PowerEdge XE9680 has improved Dell's best results in each project by 3 times to 8.4 times! XE9680 will be available in China soon, please wait and see.