Xinhua News Agency, Shanghai, July 6 Topic: From the World Artificial Intelligence Conference to see the "progress table" of AI empowerment
Xinhua News Agency reporters Zhou Lin and Gong Wen
The World Artificial Intelligence Conference is regarded as a vane for the global AI industry. On July 6, at the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference held in Shanghai, the number of exhibitors and exhibition area reached the highest ever, with more than 30 new products being released for the first time, and more than 400 well-known companies and institutions in the AI industry from around the world came up with "hardcore products" on the "new track" such as humanoid robots and large models, showing how AI technology can accelerate the cultivation of the real economy and empower a better life.
Tesla robot photographed at the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference exhibition on July 6. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Fang Zhe
- "Big Model" heat collective release.
More than 30 large models were collectively unveiled at the conference, some aiming at general and some deeply cultivating the industry, promoting artificial intelligence from perception to cognition, from recognition to generation, and from special to general.
At the scene, the audience can experience the large model "Skyrim" launched by Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and other institutions up close, and the 15-square-kilometer real model near the venue is being pushed on the screen. This 3D large model of the real scene can carry out high-precision and rapid modeling of the real scene of the city within 100 square kilometers, and the clarity can reach 4K, and the audience can not only observe 360 degrees, but also move buildings and "modify the city" in the model.
It is worth mentioning that "Chinese style" can be seen everywhere at the scene of the frontier conference, and many large models have ancient names. Huawei's "Pangu", SenseTime's "Daily News", NetEase's "Danqingyo", and Huituo's mining solution equipped with a large model are named "Yugong"... These names subtly imply a tribute to China's excellent traditional culture, and vividly embody the humanistic value of artificial intelligence technology to benefit life.
On July 6, visitors played against SenseTime's AI chess robot. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Fang Zhe
"In the future, models will face more complex and diverse interaction scenarios and pay more attention to various forms of information fusion." Wu Chao, director of the CITIC Think Tank Expert Committee, believes that the big language model will become a personal intelligent assistant, and as a future human-computer interaction interface, it will also become a new generation of traffic entrance.
——The "head geese" effect empowers the real economy.
Walking through the CITIC Group booth, you can view the digital twin image of CITIC Pacific Special Steel Daye Special Steel 460 Steel Pipe Factory in Huangshi, Hubei Province in real time. In the video, the position of each steel is tracked in real time.
"This is the first seamless steel pipe full-process, full-service industrial Internet platform and digital twin factory, which can achieve per capita labor productivity and capacity improvement while reducing process energy consumption and carbon emissions." Ma Jinhui, chief engineer of CITIC Pacific Special Steel Daye Special Steel Pipe Division, said.
Artificial intelligence has a strong 'head geese' effect with strong spillover and driving force. At present, its "head geese" effect of empowering hundreds of industries is accelerating. Xu Xiaolan, vice minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said at the opening ceremony of the conference that the scale of the core artificial intelligence industry in the mainland has reached 500 billion yuan, the number of enterprises has exceeded 4,300, and the scale of computing power ranks second in the world. At the same time, more than 2,500 digital workshops and smart factories have been built, and after intelligent transformation, the R&D cycle has been shortened by about 20.7%, the production efficiency has been increased by about 34.8%, the defective product rate has been reduced by about 27.4%, and the carbon emission has been reduced by about 21.2%.
The 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference opened in Shanghai. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Fang Zhe
Computing power, algorithms, and data are the three elements of artificial intelligence development, and deep application is giving rise to a "hot" demand for computing power, and many head companies are also beginning to provide "solutions". "For example, in Huawei's data center in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, we deployed thousands of cards in the initial stage, and the computing efficiency was improved by more than 10% under the same computing power." Ken Hu, Huawei's rotating chairman, said that Huawei has been deeply engaged in computing power for many years, and will no longer become a bottleneck in the development of artificial intelligence through architecture innovation, ecosystem development, and flexible co-construction.
– Accelerating the innovative development of "artificial intelligence".
On the 6th, Tencent announced the new results of the "Star Exploration Program", and in 2023, fast radio bursts will be found from a large number of observation data through AI technology.
"Fast radio bursts are the brightest radio bursts in the universe, lasting only a few milliseconds, and are an important tool for astronomers to study the universe." Wu Yunsheng, head of Tencent Youtu Lab, said that from astronomical exploration to cultural research, artificial intelligence is promoting innovation and is expanding the boundaries of human understanding of nature and summarizing objective laws.
AI-driven scientific research (AI for Science) is a hot topic of the moment. Around 2017, scientists began to try to use artificial intelligence techniques such as machine learning to solve scientific problems. On the 6th, a report released by the China Institute of Science and Technology Information and the New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Research Center of the Ministry of Science and Technology showed that the mainland ranked first in the world in the number of papers published in AI for Science.
The opening ceremony of the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference photographed on July 6. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Fang Zhe
"Artificial intelligence empowerment will break through the bottleneck of traditional scientific research capabilities and become a new paradigm for global scientific research." Zhao Zhiyun, director of the New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Research Center of the Ministry of Science and Technology, said that it is currently in the critical window period for the breakthrough development of AI for Science, and it is necessary to continue to strengthen R&D support, orderly promote the open sharing of scientific research data, accelerate the improvement of the basic software and hardware technology ecosystem, coordinate the construction of computing power infrastructure, vigorously cultivate multidisciplinary and compound talents, and deepen and expand international cooperation.
The World Artificial Intelligence Conference has been successfully held for five consecutive sessions until 2022, attracting more than 600,000 visitors to the exhibition offline and 1.5 billion people to participate online, and promoting the signing of more than 200 major industrial projects with a total investment of 70 billion yuan. More than 300 products debuted and went to market.
In the exhibition hall of the conference, Tesla showed the Tesla Bot humanoid robot "Optimus Prime", 172 cm tall and 56.6 kg "Ta" can lift a piano with one hand, and can also complete walking, going up and down stairs, squatting, picking up objects and other actions. "Once China decides to take steps in a certain area, whether it is artificial intelligence or other industries, China can do extremely well. I am confident that China has strong AI capabilities. At the opening ceremony of the conference, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said this.
Source: Xinhuanet