Visit the Wuzhen Summit of the World Internet Conference, a microcosm of the Internet in the past ten years
Author/ IT Times reporter Pan Shaoying
Editor/ Hao Junhui Sun Yan
The walls are white and the water is gently swaying.
Wuzhen, a small town in the south of the Yangtze River with small bridges and flowing water, has always precipitated the temperament of "the sun has become slower in the past, and cars, horses, and mail are slow". However, because of the Internet, the "core" of this town has undergone drastic changes, stepping on the bluestone road of Xizha, and the "fast" technology of traveling thousands of miles a day has created an Internet map and a new sample here.
On November 8, the banner of the Wuzhen Summit of the World Internet Conference stretched more than 30 kilometers from Tongxiang Railway Station to Wuzhen Xizha, telling everyone who came to Wuzhen that it was the annual "Wuzhen Time" again. Ten years ago, the first World Internet Conference was held in Wuzhen and settled permanently, and after ten years, the World Internet Conference has been upgraded from an international conference to an international organization with a permanent organization, and the Wuzhen Summit has also transformed into an annual meeting of international organizations.
Wuzhen, behind the sound of oars and lights, has experienced a decade of fast and slow.
The number of digital economy enterprises in Wuzhen has increased from 12 to more than 1,000, and the "Light of Wuzhen" supercomputing center can perform 1.8 billion calculations every 1 second... The theme of this year's World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit is "Building an Inclusive, Inclusive and Resilient Digital World - Working Together to Build a Community with a Shared Future in Cyberspace", which is the proposition of the times.
Mobile Internet, AI model, digital economy, network security... It has become the direction of attention and display of many participants, and these technologies are also "accelerating" into life. Now is the "golden age" of the rapid development of the digital economy, but the development of the global digital economy is extremely unbalanced, accompanied by many problems: privacy, hegemony, inequality, etc., are shaking and testing the digital edifice.
How do you build a solid digital world? How to build a community with a shared future in cyberspace? Let's find the answer in the ten years of changes in Wuzhen.
Keywords: AI large model
From "scanning the QR code" to "looking at the large model"
Ten years ago, Wuzhen had just begun to build an "Internet town", at that time, 4G and Wi-Fi were the "new terms" in people's mouths, from the rocking boatman to the homestay aunt have begun to "touch the Internet", and let them connect to the Internet world through their mobile phones is a two-dimensional code, "scanning the QR code" has become the most commonly heard sentence.
Not only Wuzhen, but also in China at that time, people's lives began to be changed by the mobile Internet, consumption, services, transportation, government affairs... A small QR code was used to gradually establish an "online mode", and the decade of great development of the mobile Internet has also begun.
Ten years later, when I look at Wuzhen, my ears are full of "big models", and a new trend is gradually becoming clear, and the cutting-edge application of large models is becoming a tool and assistant at the reach of ordinary people. ChatGPT has detonated a new round of AI craze around the world, and large models have become an important direction for the development of many Internet technology companies.
In the Ant Group exhibition area, many merchants are experiencing "creative posters", and they only need to enter a sentence and a picture in the "AI version of creative posters" of Alipay's mini program to quickly get their own creative posters, which greatly reduces the marketing threshold for small and micro businesses.
"Conversational Programming Robots" allow you to generate a program with your mouth. The reporter said at the scene: "Show the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games medal table website", and 3 seconds later, the robot automatically generated the medal list of this year's Hangzhou Asian Games.
"This technology combines the capabilities of large models with low-code platforms to propose a comprehensive solution of 'fragments as functions', which transforms language fragments into independent and complete functional updates through fragmented user language understanding, so as to achieve a smooth, real-time, and visual conversational intelligent R&D experience." According to the staff of Ant Group, in the future, this technology will also be open source and open to provide development services for small and micro businesses, individual users and other groups.
Through the Ant Financial model, users can also talk to the intelligent financial assistant "Zhi Xiaobao 2.0" to find a suitable financial plan.
In many vertical fields, large models have begun to develop in depth.
At the Hangzhou Shentu Intelligent Booth, the world's first large-scale model specializing in AI in the garment industry was exhibited. "Other traditional graphic generation models can help designers get inspiration, but they can't be applied to the detailed design and development of clothing styles." With the help of millions of ready-to-wear images and tens of millions of professional labels, it can achieve higher-level image editing and generation tasks, which can quickly find suitable fabrics and quickly generate version process drawings through model drawing, which greatly improves the efficiency of clothing design. The staff of Shentu Intelligent told the "IT Times" reporter that the design can be completed in 1 minute at the earliest, the plate making can be completed in 3 hours, and the sample clothes can be made within 3 days.
You can clearly feel that the AI model has greatly lowered the threshold for people to use Internet technology, and digital technology, which was only refined in the field of research and professional groups in the past, is continuing to integrate into the lives of ordinary people.
Keywords: digital humans
"Stupid" can't tell the difference between the real and the fake
"Good-looking skin + interesting soul", digital people are becoming the protagonists of all walks of life. At the New Year's Eve party of station B, Luo Tianyi, the first Chinese virtual singer in China, once brought more than ten minutes of popular song skewers, 5 different styles of stages, 7 different shapes of Luo Tianyi, if it is a live performance, the difficulty of this scene scheduling is unimaginable.
The origins of digital humans and the World Internet Conference are not recent.
Last year, the round and cute mascot "Xiaohu" debuted as a virtual human for the first time, but as soon as it debuted, it was "popular", and "Xiaohu" can be seen online and offline. This year, there are obviously more "digital human friends", and the main one is "hyper-realistic".
In the Alibaba exhibition area, a hyper-realistic digital human named "Lili" was greeting the audience, and she was dressed in ancient costumes and enthusiastically "greeted" everyone to actively interact. From hairstyles and facial features to eyes and fingers, if it weren't for the screen, it might really be mistaken for a real person. "The biggest feature of 'Lili' is that it can't be seen from the outside whether it is a real person or a fake person, and if it is connected to the language model, it can almost be fake." Alibaba's booth staff told the "IT Times" reporter that because of this, "Lili" played "Er Zhuang" in the live-action comic drama "Under the Alien" this year, becoming the first digital person in China to appear in a live-action film and television series.
The mellow and euphemistic Yue Opera sound came from China Telecom's booth, this is not a Yue Opera performance, but it is two "digital Yue Opera actors" singing, they are dressed in traditional Yue Opera costumes, not only singing skills, but also beautiful and atmospheric. According to the staff of China Telecom's booth, the two digital humans are trained by using 5G+AI technology to collect the posture and singing voice of real Yue Opera actors.
At the just-concluded Hangzhou Asian Games, the digital person who appeared at the opening and closing ceremonies with the torch held high caused heated discussions. This digital person, which is relayed by more than 100 million netizens and supported by Ant digital human technology, also came to the World Internet Conference. In the Ant Group exhibition area, the "IT Times" reporter obtained a digital human by scanning the applet, and this digital person will be permanently stored on AntChain.
At the "Internet Entrepreneur Forum" of the Wuzhen Summit of the World Internet Conference, Ant Group's "Digital Ignition Technology for the Whole People to Participate in the Opening Ceremony of the Hangzhou Asian Games" won the "Top Ten Typical Cases of Innovation and Development of Chinese Internet Enterprises in 2023".
"In order to achieve the participation of 100 million people online and offline in this second, Ant engineers wrote more than 200,000 lines of code, conducted tens of thousands of AI motion captures, and tested more than 100,000 times." Wu Yinan, head of digital human technology at Ant Group, said that outside of the Asian Games, the Ant digital human platform has been implemented in government affairs, medical care, e-commerce live broadcast, customer service and other scenarios. For example, in the field of government affairs, it supported "Ganfutong" to create the country's first government service digital person "Xiaoganshi".
With the support of AI brains, digital humans no longer only have "good-looking skins", but have a high degree of realism and interactivity. It will provide more intimate services to humans.
Keywords: cybersecurity
Capture the "first cut" of hacking
Cyber security has been the natural meaning of the Wuzhen Summit from the very beginning.
At the first World Internet Conference, the maintenance of network security was mentioned. At each subsequent World Internet Conference, Internet security protection technology has received continuous attention.
Ren Xianliang, Secretary-General of the World Internet Conference, previously said that the theme of this conference is to build a platform for exchanges and cooperation for all walks of life around the world, jointly respond to cybersecurity challenges, add new momentum to the world's economic and social development, and promote the steady and solid process of world economic recovery.
"The existing security monitoring system is dominated by traditional security devices such as firewalls, WAFs, and situational awareness, which rely heavily on known threat characteristics such as configured feature rules and threat intelligence, and it is difficult to detect low-frequency targeted and premeditated hackers, or advanced threats, resulting in a large blind spot in security monitoring." In the view of Zhang Yining, product manager of Ruifuxin Technology, the development of the monitoring system based on black data has reached a bottleneck, and it is difficult to change the monitoring effect in the fields of advanced threats and unknown threats, and it is urgent to strengthen the existing security monitoring system.
In the field of network security, it is necessary to pre-detect attacks to the "investigation" stage, capture the "first knife" of hacker attacks, and achieve accurate portraits of hackers to dig out the attackers behind them. Starting from 2022, Ruifuxin has explored artificial intelligence security detection technology with "AI + white model" as the core, and successfully played a role in the "actual combat" in the face of advanced threats and unknown threats.
Wei Liang, vice president of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, once wrote that under the traction of new threats and new needs, solidified single form of security technology has evolved into a fully cloud-based and collaborative security service solution, and emerging security technologies such as zero trust, privacy computing, and mimic defense have gradually matured and landed.
Data is the "oil" of the information age, how to truly achieve absolute data security? A person related to the technology told the "IT Times" reporter that the privacy computing platform and the three privacy computing platforms developed for finance, government and enterprise, and medical-related scenarios and the privacy computing all-in-one machine have given a new solution. "The privacy computing platform integrates a variety of privacy technology engines to achieve a complete closed-loop data circulation. Through the platform, different ecological data can be securely linked, the virtual integration of multi-party data elements can be realized, and the value of data can be safely released, so as to truly realize 'data is available but invisible, available without being seen, available without saving, and available without stealing'. ”
In the view of the above-mentioned people, the three major scenarios of finance, government and enterprise, and medical care need more privacy computing technology, "For example, the financial privacy computing platform can serve financial institutions such as banks, insurance, and securities, promote the safe flow of internal and external data, and can play a role in financial-related scenarios such as intelligent marketing, intelligent risk control, intelligent management, anti-money laundering, and financial anti-fraud." ”
Keywords: smart villages
Happiness in the countryside
Qian Xinming, who is nearly seventy years old, is the inheritor of Wuzhen bamboo weaving, an intangible cultural heritage in Zhejiang. What is the Internet? Ten years ago, Qian Xinming didn't understand. It wasn't until the World Internet Conference was held, there were more and more tourists from all over the world, and his two sons also returned to their hometown to start their own businesses, that Qian Xinming realized that he had to go online. Now, the handicrafts of this ordinary Wuzhen old man are sold all over the world through various online channels.
This is a microcosm of smart villages, through one World Internet conference after another, the Internet gene will slowly penetrate into the countryside, so that more people can realize the importance of the national strategy of developing the digital economy.
In the 10th year of the World Internet Conference, the digital village elements were established as an independent hall and settled in the museum for the first time, showcasing the achievements of Zhejiang's digital village construction through the digital transformation and reshaping of agriculture and rural areas, the innovation and quality improvement of rural digital economy, and the inclusive sharing of rural digital services.
How to grow beautiful rice in a smart field, how to live in a smart pighouse, how to grow a fresh giant river prawn in a smart pond...
Several piglets who have just been born for 20 days are foraging in a pigsty of about four or five square meters built on the spot, and they are wearing intelligent biological ear tags on their ears, which can collect the body temperature and activity of the pig in real time to judge its health status. "Breeders can keep abreast of the health of their pigs and can also improve the survival rate of their youngties." Huamu Technology staff told the "IT Times" reporter that the survival of each sow per year has increased from 18.5 to 26.5.
Not only has the survival rate of the piglets increased, but the workload of the breeders has also been greatly reduced. In the pigsty, the piglets enjoy regular and quantitative automatic feeding, without the need for manual feeding by the breeder, through the sensor, the intelligent controller next to the pigsty displays the real-time temperature and humidity of the pigsty, so that the piglets can grow up in the most suitable environment. "10,000 pigs, only 3 people need to raise them." said the above-mentioned staff member.
Digital technology is changing the lives of farmers at an unprecedented speed, Zhejiang Tongxin Agricultural Company brought the seedling automatic grafting robot, through the high-performance programmable controller, to achieve unified scheduling, intelligent control, automatic operation of seedling grafting, 400 plants per hour, the success rate of more than 98%, to achieve accurate and efficient grafting.
A small "Zhejiang agricultural code" is a special code for agriculture and rural areas created by Zhejiang Province, which establishes a unified digital identity for the province's agriculture-related people, things, and organizations, effectively realizes accurate data management, and has become a unified service entrance in the field of "agriculture, agriculture, and agriculture".
In the past ten years in Wuzhen, "Internet affairs" have been like songs, those long streets and small shops that still remain, the fragrance of soy milk and slow time that still exist, and the rapid development of the Internet and the fast pace of intelligent life, forming a wonderful combination with a deep charm.
Typesetting / Ji Jiaying
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