Following the launch of products and services such as no-delay live broadcast, MR live broadcast, and Studio 1, the enterprise-level video SaaS service provider Polyway has made new moves. At 10 a.m. on June 13, Polyway "AI· The "Reshaping the Horizon" AI strategy conference officially launched POLYV AI, and introduced a number of new AI capabilities based on Polyway cloud video live broadcast, such as AI learning assistant, intelligent digital human, intelligent meeting minutes, intelligent lesson making, and invisible traceability watermark.
It is reported that since 2014, China's AI education has entered a period of application exploration. In the past two years, with the continuous exploration of leading enterprises in the field of artificial intelligence application landing, artificial intelligence technology has begun to be applied, and the dividend period of AI technology has arrived.
Standing at a new starting point for the 10th anniversary, based on the experience of video live streaming and insights into business scenarios, Polyway officially released an AI strategy, integrating AI intelligent interaction into video, giving new capabilities to understand and innovate scene content, and improving the business efficiency and value of live video.
Use AI technology to empower video live streaming in the whole chain
Why does Polyway combine artificial intelligence technology with live video?
Xie Xiaofang, CEO of Polyway, said, "We are in the wave of AIGC (artificial intelligence generated content), and all walks of life are actively applying AI technology. In this uncertain business environment, the rise of AI technology provides new impetus for future development. Relying on its technology and service advantages in the field of enterprise-level video live broadcasting, Polyway is accelerating the commercialization process of AI applications and creating new value for various fields. ”
Ding Yi, chief scientist of Polywei, introduced Polywei's exploration in the field of artificial intelligence at the press conference. Photo courtesy of interviewee
Ding Yi, director of the Intelligent Audio and Video Laboratory, doctor of Sun Yat-sen University and chief scientist of Polywei, said that Polyway has been paying close attention to the field of artificial intelligence since 2017, and has actively joined hands with well-known universities such as Sun Yat-sen University and South China University of Technology to jointly conduct in-depth research in the fields of speech recognition, voiceprint recognition, video data structuring, and digital copyright protection. This year, OpenAI's ChatGPT3.5 set off an AI revolution, and AI applications from all walks of life have sprung up. This revolution doesn't just mean "smarter robots," but directly upends the way humans interact with the digital world.
Liang Yingwei, vice president of Polyway Technology, proposed the four product capabilities of Polyway AI and conducted a live demonstration. He pointed out that "POLYV AI can transform video interaction from one-way to two-way, and greatly improve the production efficiency of video content through AIGC capabilities; In addition, the ability of AI to record, understand, and summarize makes it easier to perform sexual work. In addition, AI can also be trained to process 'high-dimensional information' to implant, refine and process live video and audio information. ”
The reporter noted that as a video cloud technology service provider, Polyway has integrated AI technology into the previous cloud classroom. This time, what is the difference between the AI strategy and AI teaching products launched by Polyway?
Liang Yingwei explained that for Polyway, AI technology is not "new" and has been applied in previous products. "In the past, products launched using AI technology, such as advanced video analytics, solved specific problems, such as after the course or some problems in the video, and the essence of the video is still the content. With the blessing of the big model, the biggest change is its understanding of content and its ability to create and produce content. ”
In Liang Yingwei's view, this also means that when providing video cloud products, Polyway can extend AI technology from video to video creation and video operation, "This is different from before, so that AI is no longer just a single point of problem solving in a tool, but can become a role similar to artificial intelligence assistants, empowering all links in video live broadcasting, including improving the viewing experience of the audience." ”
Polyway AI series products will be implemented in many fields such as intelligent education
How long does it take to make a course?
The relevant person in charge of Polyway said that previously, Polyway and three classes jointly launched a product manager sharing course, this 30-minute sharing course from PPT writing, repeated revision, course polishing, recording, to the final launch, it took about a week, which is also the amount of work and time required by most educational institutions to produce a course, and most technical means can not provide effective efficiency solutions.
Now, using POLYV AI to make lessons, just upload a PPT courseware, the system can automatically identify the courseware and remarks information in the PPT, and convert it into oral broadcasts to automatically generate teaching videos; Combined with the prepared digital human model, a course can be automatically generated. This process took less than a minute.
From the perspective of business efficiency, the time for course production is greatly shortened, and enterprises can produce more high-quality course content in a very short time; With the blessing of intelligent video live broadcasting, the supply of high-quality educational resources is also changing. AI technology makes the acquisition and sharing of educational resources easy, fast and equal, releasing richer educational resources for the whole society.
POLYV AI equips the course with an intelligent Q&A digital human. Photo courtesy of interviewee
At the same time, POLYV AI also equips the course with a 24-hour online Q&A live teacher, which can not only intelligently analyze the video, help students outline and answer questions, but also help students refine the key points and provide personalized learning suggestions. And generate intelligent learning reports to provide students and teachers with accurate learning data and analysis results, which is of great value for the evaluation and improvement of teaching effectiveness.
In addition, with the blessing of artificial intelligence technology, POLYV AI also has an intelligent dotting function, which can not only help users quickly locate key content when watching videos, but also provide reference when making video summaries or reviewing materials. At the same time, based on intelligent dots, Polyway AI conducts in-depth analysis and sorting of video content, forms a clear outline and mind map, and helps users understand the logic and structure of video content as a whole.
This is just the landing application of POLYV AI in the field of smart education. On the same day, the relevant person in charge of Polyway also introduced the commercial application of Polyway AI in scenarios such as intelligent marketing and intelligent meetings.
Intelligent education, intelligent conference, digital human marketing promotion... Polyway is standing at the forefront of this revolution, promoting the popularization of AI video live broadcast and opening a new model of "human + live broadcast + multi-role AI".
The plan is to help 500 enterprises implement AI applications in all scenarios
The reporter noticed that there are currently many products focusing on smart teaching solutions on the market, and some products have successfully entered the B side and have been used for a long time in schools. What are the advantages of the AI+ intelligent teaching solution launched by Polyway?
At the press conference, the guests in Guangzhou interacted with media reporters in Studio 1 in Beijing through the Polyway live broadcast system. Photo courtesy of interviewee
According to Zhou Xin, co-founder and vice president of Polyway, the smart teaching solutions on the market can be divided into two categories. The first category is mainly to serve the teaching management of the school, based on the three links of before, during and after class to do the relevant content of teaching, learning, evaluation and management. Among them, the extended related products include smart teaching screens, smart blackboards, offline recording and broadcasting collection equipment, etc. The second category is consumer-oriented teaching solutions, such as educational hardware products such as smart learning machines and smart exercise books.
"Polyway's intelligent teaching solution is technically the video side. Offline large screens, blackboards, and screen recording devices solve the problem of 'end'. Polyway solves the problem of the 'cloud'. Zhou Xin said that with the blessing of Polyway's intelligent technology, doing live teaching and recording teaching in the form of video can make the whole process and production content more intelligent and make learning more convenient.
Liang Yingwei said that education and teaching is a direction that Polyway focuses on, but intelligent teaching solutions are not limited to education and teaching, and can also play a great role in the wider knowledge and information transmission, "Education and teaching is one of our starting points, and we hope to expand to different industries." ”
Standing at the 10th anniversary, what other actions will Polyway have in products, technologies and services in the future?
Liang Yingwei said that Polyway has always cared about the needs of users, but also maintained curiosity about new technologies, "We try to strike a balance between these two aspects." Liang Yingwei explained that sometimes some problems raised by users cannot be solved well under the current conditions, but in the long run, the blessing of cutting-edge technology can solve these problems, "Taking AIGC as an example, we have been constantly researching since the emergence of this technology, but have not yet found a suitable landing plan or foothold." But we see a lot of possibilities, and we will continue to pay attention to this in the future and think about how to use new technologies to solve the needs of users. Focusing on Polyway's AI strategy, Liang Yingwei said that in the future, we will focus on how to expand the capabilities of AI from video to pre- and post-video applications to deeply empower user-related business scenarios.
"Big model, small model." Zhou Xin summarized Polyway's future actions at the service level in six words. In his view, as a video SaaS company, Polyway has the advantage of being able to better fit the relevant business scenarios of users in the vertical field, understand industry needs, and realize business value. Zhou Xin said that Polyway has set up a service operation team and plans to help 500 enterprises achieve full-scenario AI applications, "This process is to create a small model room." ”
In addition, Zhou Xin said that the domestic education market is highly fragmented, and the value of technology lies in how to empower more enterprises and institutions to help them improve learning effects and carry out precise teaching, "making education more equal and making better education come faster, which is the mission and responsibility of Polywei." ”
Text/Yang Feifei
Edited by Miao Chenxia
Proofreader Zhai Yongjun