"We must have both short-term ambitions and long-term perseverance."
Source|Duozhi.com
Author|Xu Jingjing
Image source|iFLYTEK
Duozhi.com news on June 9, today, at the 24th anniversary celebration of iFLYTEK, iFLYTEK officially released the V1.5 version of iFLYTEK cognitive large model, Liu Qingfeng, chairman of iFLYTEK, and Liu Cong, president of iFLYTEK Research Institute, showed a number of capability upgrades of iFLYTEK cognitive large model V1.5, including breakthroughs in open Q&A, multiple rounds of dialogue, logic and mathematics ability upgrades, simultaneous release of Xinghuo App, and the launch of 200+ assistants for high-frequency use scenarios such as life and work. The User Creation Center also supports continuous co-creation and sharing.
In terms of application landing, iFLYTEK has further promoted the application of the Spark cognitive big model in education, medical care, industry, office and other fields.
This time, the Xinghuo companion app was launched. That is, with the blessing of the V1.5 version of the Spark Cognitive Big Model, the previous AI speaking assistant was officially upgraded to the Spark Language Companion App, which can realize 1-to-1 speaking sparring and on-the-go translation.
For polynomial arithmetic problems that are difficult to input by voice or typing, you can also use iFLYTEK's "Math Problem Solving Assistant", where users can get accurate answers through mobile phone shooting.
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The virtual language sparring teacher is online
At the press conference, iFLYTEK announced that it will officially upgrade the AI speaking assistant released on May 6 to the Spark Language companion App for the English speaking sparring needs of college students and business people. According to reports, the App can conduct open dialogue, situational communication, sparring like a speaking teacher, and real-time oral error correction. Users can also use video conversations to communicate face-to-face with virtual human teachers.
In terms of languages, the app also supports text, voice and image translation in 9 languages. Even if the language is entered with the wrong syntax, the app can recognize and correct it; Support mixed input of Chinese and English. In addition, the language companion app can also set the difficulty according to the user's own situation.
(Liu Cong's live demonstration and Xinghuo Language companion App virtual population language sparring dialogue)
"This virtual human is suitable for companionship." In the live broadcast room, some netizens commented.
"Virtual human teachers are synthetic, and virtual human teachers make people feel more immersive when practicing speaking, which is easier to stimulate users' enthusiasm for English learning." Liu Qingfeng said.
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Logical reasoning and mathematical skills upgraded
The V1.5 version of iFLYTEK Xinghuo cognitive model released today has improved a number of core capabilities, including open-ended knowledge question and answer, logical reasoning and mathematical ability, and multi-round dialogue ability.
In terms of open Q&A, Wu Xiaoru, President of iFLYTEK, said that by combining the language understanding ability and summary expression ability of the large model with the search plug-in, the Spark model effectively solved the industry problems such as the difficulty of updating new knowledge and the easy "Zhang Guan Li Dai" of fact-based Q&A, and achieved a 24% improvement in knowledge Q&A ability compared with the original.
"The real power of the big model is not to make the generated content exactly the same as direct search, only to take natural language understanding as the core, combined with plug-in capabilities such as class search, which can solve more complex problems." He further said that language understanding is the most important ability for the big model to become a human assistant in the future.
Based on long-chain thinking reasoning and mathematical logical reasoning capabilities, iFLYTEK Xinghuo cognitive large model V1.5 has also been upgraded in logic and mathematical capabilities.
Taking logical reasoning ability as an example, "logical reasoning ability is actually very close to mathematics. Mathematics is also a reflection of our intellectual abilities. The improvement of the general ability of logical reasoning can bring the foundation for further improvement of mathematics. Liu Cong said.
In the demonstration session, Liu Cong demonstrated the reasoning ability of iFLYTEK Xinghuo Cognitive Large Model V1.5, which can also give explainable answers through reasoning. For example, "the farmer needs to cross the river with wolves, sheep, and vegetables, and only the farmer can row, and the boat is relatively small, and the farmer can only bring one thing across the river at a time." If the farmer is not there, the sheep will steal the vegetables and the wolves will eat the sheep. Please devise a way for farmers to safely bring everything across the river. In response to this question, Xinghuo gave the answer under the rigorous reasoning shown in the figure.
In addition, for polynomial arithmetic problems that are difficult to input by voice or typing, you can also use iFLYTEK's "Math Problem Solving Assistant" to solve problems by taking pictures and recognition. At the press conference, Liu Cong took out a high school mathematics exam paper, faced with a complex polynomial question, Xinghuo App selected the specified question through the photo frame, and quickly gave the correct answer on the basis of OCR recognition.
The iFLYTEK Spark App and Mini Program were also officially released, improving the interactive experience of the mobile terminal. "iFLYTEK Spark App is a portable assistant in the era of large models." Liu Qingfeng said. Pure voice dialogue, multi-modal input, multi-terminal support, multi-function assistant and other functions are launched, supporting graphic and text recognition, mathematical formula recognition, and presented in a variety of terminals in diversified forms.
Among them, the "Spark Assistant Creation Center" is particularly eye-catching. It is understood that relying on the upgrade of language understanding, Xinghuo App has launched a total of 200+ official assistants this time, which penetrate into high-frequency scenarios such as workplace, life, travel, and writing, and support personalized customization, creation, release and sharing.
In the "Spark Assistant Creation Center", intelligent assistants in learning categories alone include education experts, English dictionaries, history observers, thesis outline assistants, English composition, thesis catalog assistants, international historians, argumentative essay writing assistants, Chinese-English translation assistants, student comments, volunteer filling assistants, little scientists, reading recommendation officers, famous book appreciation experts, debate competition argumentation assistants, poetry recommendations, literary masters, reverse dictionaries, etc.
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The large model supports multi-terminal access, which may be combined with AIoT wearable devices in the future
"I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that the significance of general artificial intelligence this time is equivalent to the birth of PCs and the Internet, or even greater, and it will be more deeply recorded in history as a solution to human needs." Liu Qingfeng has repeatedly emphasized the significance of general artificial intelligence.
Since it can empower almost every field, does iFLYTEK have to make all products?
Apparently not.
Liu Qingfeng said, "iFLYTEK is currently involved in only products in key areas. On the iFLYTEK artificial intelligence open platform, there are currently more than 4 million developer teams, and the ecology brought by general artificial intelligence will be more prosperous. We will work with all ecological partners to promote the arrival of the era of big models. ”
At the scene, he announced the opening of the Xinghuo cognitive big model development interface, fully opening the seven dimensional capabilities and 200+ assistant corresponding capabilities to developers, and supporting private deployment to build an ecosystem with the majority of developers. "It will also support multi-terminal access (PC/mobile) rapid integration, and even for various independent wearable devices of AIoT, we can provide rapid integration, and a simple integration can be completed in 30 minutes."
At the press conference, iFLYTEK also joined hands with the first batch of 22 national key universities, including Peking University and University of Science and Technology of China, to launch the Spark Model Scene Innovation Competition and iFLYTEK University AI Spark Camp.
Liu Qingfeng also said that iFLYTEK should not only pay tribute to and catch up with OpenAI, but also do independent innovation at the source, and iFLYTEK is actively exploring more potential paths and cutting-edge cross-research opportunities for general artificial intelligence, including brain-like intelligence, neural network large models, game intelligence, etc.
From the combing point of view, the upgrade rhythm of the iFLYTEK Spark model is orderly:
From the release of the Spark model on May 6, version 1.5 was released just one month later, which will break through open-ended questions and answers, significantly improve multi-round dialogue capabilities, and upgrade mathematical skills. According to the key milestone plan for the development of the large model previously announced by iFLYTEK, it is expected that on August 15, the new version of the Spark large model will be released, and the code capability will be upgraded and the multimodal interaction capability will be improved. It is expected that on October 24, the universal model will be benchmarked against ChatGPT, Chinese surpass the current version of ChatGPT, and English can achieve a comparable level, and achieve industry leadership in education, medical and other fields.
"Why do we have such clear goals? It is because in this general artificial intelligence research, we not only have technology accumulation, a well-established team, and each key module is completely independently developed, and the software and hardware platforms are running on domestic reliable platforms. Liu Qingfeng said, "We must not only have the ambition to tackle problems in the short term, but also have the perseverance of long-termism." ”
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The author of this article: Xu Jingjing