Original by Wang Haoda Speedway.com
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Author / Wang Haoda
Based on ChatGPT refreshing people's cognition of artificial intelligence again and again, generative language models have become a dazzling business card of artificial intelligence. In fact, the language model is only one of the important driving forces for the development of the field of human intelligence, in addition to the large model, artificial intelligence has quietly changed the development path of the entire industry.
Unlike general scientific concepts or visions, although artificial intelligence has been active in society and focused on popularity in recent times, according to the "Brief History of the Development of Artificial Intelligence" released by the Cyberspace Administration of the People's Republic of China, the origin of artificial intelligence can be traced back to the birth of the Turing test in the fifties of the 20th century. After a long period of development, artificial intelligence finally showed the results of many years of dormancy with the emergence of ChatGPT.
Wen Xin empowers internal and external business and takes the lead in intelligent driving
ChatGPT has indeed appeared like a thunder in the attention of the domestic society, and in the first few months of 2023, more than 20 domestic technology companies have announced the launch of their large-scale language models, such as Baidu's Wenxin model, Tencent's mixed element model, Ali's Tongyi model, etc. have sprung up in people's field of vision. It can be seen that the Internet giants have shown the expectations and determination of enterprises to lay out the field of artificial intelligence for the first time.
Among the Internet giants, the fastest action and the most fierce response is Baidu's Wenxin Yiyan, which has announced the access to Wenxin in the early stage of its launch, laying the foundation for Baidu's pioneering position in the field of artificial intelligence.
In response to Baidu's first-quarter earnings report released on May 16, Robin Li, founder, chairman and CEO of Baidu, said: "I believe that generative artificial intelligence and big language models bring revolutionary potential to all walks of life, helping users and customers achieve their goals and have a positive impact on society. Baidu plans to gradually integrate Wenxin into all business of the company, empower Baidu's products and services, and attract a wider range of users and customers. Focusing on the words of Wen Xin, build a new ecology in the new era. This will also help Baidu achieve long-term and sustainable growth. ”
Perhaps driven by the explosion of ChatGPT, it is more based on the precipitation of more than ten years of painstaking research and development by Baidu's artificial intelligence team. In addition to large language models, Baidu has also long had a layout in the fields of intelligent driving, speech recognition, and intelligent finance. As early as five years ago, Baidu AI Studio was established, which is also the first enterprise in China to support an open source deep learning framework, providing scientists and students with a platform with high performance, ease of use and scalability.
In the field of intelligent driving, Baidu announced the release of the Apollo plan in 2017, aiming to provide a complete, safe, open and reliable autonomous driving solution for global automotive and technology companies. At the end of 2022, Questel, a global intellectual property solution provider, released the "2022 Autonomous Driving and Intelligent Transportation Patent Panorama Analysis Report", in which Baidu ranked first in the world with 1,193 high-level autonomous driving patent families. At present, Baidu Apollo's automotive intelligent solutions have been mass-produced on 134 models of 31 automobile brands, with a cumulative total of more than 7 million vehicles.
2022 Autonomous Driving and Intelligent Transportation Patent Panorama Analysis Report (Partial)
In addition, in the financial field, Baidu Wealth Management APP provides users with intelligent financial planning advice, and Baidu Insurance APP realizes online intelligent underwriting and claims services. Baidu has also launched an intelligent investment advisory product that uses AI algorithms to evaluate users' investment risks and returns to help users make more informed investment decisions. In the medical field, Baidu's AI medical imaging platform can already convert medical image data into digital data, making it easier for doctors to make accurate diagnosis and treatment.
"Spark" bounced tickets in reverse, iFLYTEK focused on four major areas
The iFLYTEK Spark model, originally scheduled to be released on May 6, opened public beta on April 24 without warning.
Through previous personal experience, Sutu.com believes that the current model of iFLYTEK Spark is not perfect in terms of comprehension, logic and mathematical ability, but overall, iFLYTEK's ability to deliver iFLYTEK Spark within 5 months also proves its years of technology accumulation.
Liu Qingfeng, chairman of iFLYTEK, also put forward specific time requirements for the current problems of the Spark model, which clearly pointed out that on October 24, ChatGPT will be benchmarked in the field of general large models to achieve Chinese surpass, equivalent in English.
In addition, Liu Qingfeng also said that the big model should focus on the four major areas of "education, office, automobile, and digital employees", as a benchmark application for iFLYTEK's voice transcription translation, in the 2023 National Two Sessions, Hong Kong media will use the iFLYTEK APP to efficiently record the key content of the two sessions, ensuring the timeliness value of information to the greatest extent! At the same time, iFLYTEK Hear Subtitles can also add AI subtitles to Cantonese videos, eliminating the need to manually type subtitles and timestamps, simplifying more cumbersome operations.
In the field of education, iFLYTEK has cooperated with a number of education brands to launch AI+ education series products, using artificial intelligence technologies such as adaptive learning technology and knowledge graph technology to provide users with complete subject solutions, learning plans, knowledge assessment and other services. There are also iFLYTEK intelligent classrooms and iFLYTEK learning machines released together with the Spark model. Through artificial intelligence technology, it realizes functions such as voice interaction, personalized learning, and emotional interaction, breaking the traditional family education method.
Alibaba redefines digital entertainment
At the just-concluded 3rd BEYOND International Technology Innovation Expo, Mr. Tsai Chongxin, Co-founder and Executive Vice Chairman of Alibaba Group, shared his views on generative AI, he believes that the role of artificial intelligence in the film and television industry is extremely considerable, and even artificial intelligence will redefine digital entertainment.
For the various businesses of Alibaba Pictures, Boss Cai gave realistic solutions brought by artificial intelligence, the most eye-catching is the appearance of Ali Entertainment digital human "Lili", through digital technology, Ali can integrate American baseball with Chinese images to create a scene with very Chinese and American characteristics for promoting Major League Baseball.
In fact, Ali Entertainment digital person "Lili" and MLB have reached an agreement in the direction of brand promotion. Ms. Tsai said that when creating Lili, Alibaba spent a month creating a model of her face. But today, with generative AI, it only takes a week to build such a 3D model. And AI-driven digital humans like "Lili" save the time cost of managing real people's emotions and problems.
In terms of film and television promotion and marketing, when creating posters for movies, Alibaba Pictures has chosen to use generative artificial intelligence tools to generate these posters in a short period of time. In this regard, Cai Chongxin specifically mentioned the popular movie "King of the Long Sky" in the May Day film file, whose promotional posters are all generated by AI. Boss Cai also said jokingly: ""King of the Long Sky" is much better than Tom Cruise's "Top Gun". ”
At the same time, old national applications such as Taobao seem to have maintained a fixed operation model, but in fact, they have maintained continuous iterative innovation in the platform's content optimization. Every time you enter the Taobao shopping interface, you can see the recommended products you need, thanks to the use of algorithm technology on Alibaba's e-commerce platform in the field of product recommendation.
For example, Taobao can use artificial intelligence to achieve intelligent personalized recommendations, including multiple steps such as data collection, data preprocessing, algorithm models, real-time calculation, and recommendation ranking. The continuous optimization and improvement of these links has played a major supporting role in improving the quality and effect of Taobao's personalized recommendation services.
Face the gap, but also hopefully
"Where there is artificial intelligence, there is Chinese." Relying on strong resources and long-term precipitation, domestic Internet giants have expanded their layout in various segments in addition to developing large-model businesses. From intelligent speech to image recognition, to natural language processing, intelligent manufacturing, intelligent finance and medical health, it can be said that Chinese enterprises have their own unique contributions in various fields.
However, the gap in reality is also an objective problem that cannot be ignored, compared with the foreign artificial intelligence industry, there is still a big gap in the research and development background of domestic enterprises, and it is still urgent to improve in technology accumulation, collaboration and integration between enterprises, and the integrity of the industrial chain and ecological chain. At the same time, although domestic data resources are very rich, there is still a lot of room for improvement in data quality, data sharing and data security, compared with some countries' more complete data collection and management and sharing mechanisms.
It is worth noting that with the policy tilt and social attention, the domestic artificial intelligence melee has attracted the attention of the world, IDC predicts that China's AI market will achieve a market size of 26.44 billion US dollars in 2026, and the five-year compound growth rate (CAGR) from 2021 to 2026 will exceed 20%.
The gap should be recognized by oneself, and the strength should be recognized by others. The advanced nature of ChatGPT is undoubted, but only to build a house on its own foundation is safe, Speedway calls on all walks of life to give big factories some time and patience, so that Chinese intelligent enterprises continue to follow the pace of development of the times, promote the breakthrough and upgrading of core technologies, and strive to build a perfect industrial ecology, build a complete industrial chain based on data, hardware and computing power. At the same time, it actively lays out the global market, promotes international exchanges and cooperation, and expands a larger market space for the Chinese intelligent industry by deepening overseas cooperation.