Opening of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference Where has AI technology progressed?

■ Tesla robot displayed at the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference exhibition. Xinhua News Agency

The World Artificial Intelligence Conference is regarded as a vane for the global AI industry. On the 6th, at the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference held in Shanghai, the number of exhibitors and exhibition area reached the highest ever, and more than 30 new products were first exhibited, and more than 400 well-known enterprises and institutions in the AI industry from all over the world came up with "hard core products" on the "new track" such as humanoid robots and large models, covering four major sectors: core technology, intelligent terminals, application empowerment, and cutting-edge technologies, including large models, chips, robots, intelligent driving and other fields, showing how AI technology accelerates the cultivation of the real economy. Empowering the good life.

● "Big model" heat collective release

AI large models refer to artificial intelligence models trained using large-scale data and powerful computing power. These models usually have a high degree of accuracy and generalization ability, and can be applied to natural language processing, image recognition, speech recognition, and other fields.

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.

"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 spillover driving "head geese" effect. At present, its "head geese" effect of empowering hundreds of industries is accelerating.

Ken Hu, Huawei's Rotating Chairman, said in his speech that the key to the development of artificial intelligence is to go deeper and deeper, empower industrial upgrading, and serve thousands of industries and scientific research.

●Help break through the bottleneck of traditional scientific research capabilities

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.

"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.

●Cutting-edge technology

"Skyrim"

Realize 3D modeling of 100 square kilometers of urban reality

At the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference held on July 6, Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Hong Kong Chinese University and Shanghai Institute of Surveying and Mapping released a city-level 3D large model "Skyrim", which can perform high-precision and rapid modeling of urban reality within 100 square kilometers.

Dai Bo, a young scientist at Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, introduced that real-world three-dimensional is a digital space that reflects the real, three-dimensional and temporal space of human production, life and ecological space within a certain range. Skyrim Big Model integrates algorithms, operators, and computing systems, and can accurately represent large-scale three-dimensional urban scenes and achieve high-quality neural rendering effects while efficient training.

Previously, the relevant technology was applied to objects or individual buildings, but the Skyrim model expanded the scope to all aspects of the city, realized 100 square kilometers of 3D reality modeling, and verified the potential of AI-based 3D reality technology on a real urban scale.

"The drone flies around the city, and the Skyrim model can generate a 3D model of the entire city with a resolution accuracy of 4K." Dab said. According to the live demonstration by the R&D personnel, the audience can view the 3D model of the city from any angle, set the relevant parameters of the target building, and then remove, move or copy the target building in the 3D model.

Pangea 3.0

A large series of models for the industry

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. officially released the artificial intelligence (AI) large model and HUAWEI CLOUD Pangu model 3.0 at the Huawei Developer Conference 2023 on the 7th.

Zhang Pingan, Executive Director of Huawei and CEO of HUAWEI CLOUD, said, "The Pangu model is a series of large models for the industry. Let every industry, every enterprise, and everyone have their own expert assistant to make work more efficient and easier. ”

HUAWEI CLOUD Pangu Model 3.0 has been used in coal mines, railways, meteorology, finance, code development, and digital content generation to improve production efficiency and reduce R&D costs. On July 6, Beijing time, Nature, a top international academic journal, published the independent research results of the R&D team of HUAWEI CLOUD Pangu Model, "3D Neural Networks for Accurate Medium-term Global Weather Forecasting".

"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. ”

- Tesla CEO Musk said at the opening ceremony of the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference.

The scale of the core AI industry in mainland China has reached 500 billion yuan, and there are more than 4,300 enterprises

The reporter learned from the opening ceremony of the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference on the 6th that the mainland artificial intelligence industry is booming, the scale of core industries has reached 500 billion yuan, the number of enterprises has exceeded 4,300, and innovative achievements are constantly emerging.

In addition to mentioning the above-mentioned industrial data, Xu Xiaolan, vice minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, also said that the layout of artificial intelligence infrastructure in the mainland has accelerated, the scale of computing power ranks second in the world, major projects such as East Data and West Computing have been accelerated, and more than 2.8 million 5G base stations have been promoted; In addition, 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%.

(Text of this edition: Xinhua News Agency)