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元旦节收假，你身心都复工了吗？
In the new year, do you have the same desire to work as I do to earn money and spend money, but also want to be liberated from specific tasks? It is best to achieve a great enhancement of personal ability in the new year......
So today, let's talk about how to get AI to help you more in the new year.
Perhaps you have noticed that in the past year, various large-scale models and AIGC applications have been like electronic oxygen: nothing, everywhere, no, and in.
And this "ubiquity" may be beyond your expectations and imagination. Just today, the "2024 Top Ten Trends in AIGC Application Layer" report released by IDC made it clear that "surrounded by AIGC" is indeed a fact.
In addition, in this authoritative report, there are several points in the direction of AI that also excite me -
AIGC is being instrumentalized: The powerful capabilities of AIGC are being rapidly instrumentalized under the guidance of industrial demand, which brings about a leapfrog improvement in efficiency, and the reshaping effect on the industry competition pattern cannot be underestimated.
AIGC accelerates the formation of super entrances: the "no App" concept will reshape the application form, and the dialogue can directly access and use tools.
AIGC brings new jobs: IDC predicts that by 2026, two-thirds of cloud applications will use AI, and it is expected that up to 80% of enterprises will need AI skilled workers.
All of this means that those who master AI skills will be more competitive in the future, so the fire of my career in the new year has been ignited again.
If you're like me, you want to make AI work a little more in the New Year, earn a little more, or prepare for a "more valuable self" in the future...... This wave of AIGC application trends is also worth your attention.
It is closely related to our workers
As we all know, AIGC has three levels: the basic layer represented by computing power and data, such as the chip in our mobile phones, the model layer with large models as the core, such as the operating system, and then the top layer is the application layer, which is a variety of websites and apps that everyone can directly use.
The reason why this report is worth paying attention to is because it talks about the trend of the application layer that is closely related to our workers.
First of all, it can be seen that this report covers three aspects: industry direction, application form, and market impact, and gives a precise response to the hottest AI discussion topic at the moment.
According to the report, the top 10 trends of AIGC applications in 2024 cover keywords such as application-layer innovation, AI agent, exclusive model, super entrance, multimodality, AI native application, AI tooling, and AI inclusiveness.
With the continuous renewal and enhancement of AIGC, it has become far more than a playful game of poetry, but a productivity tool that actually improves efficiency. So when it comes to beating workers, what is worth paying attention to?
Just remember these two keywords: AI Agent, Super Entrance.
First of all, every person/enterprise can create an infinite number of AI Agents, and with personalized AI assistants, human-machine collaboration has become the new normal of our work and life.
AI Agent is like our assistant, through which more fragmented scenarios and complex tasks can be handled, such as providing schedule reminders, travel arrangements, meeting summaries, knowledge quizzes, data analysis, etc. in work scenarios, and helping us make schedules, travel planning, catering and entertainment orders in life scenarios.
More importantly, through continuous human-computer interaction, as well as the long-term memory and reasoning capabilities of the AI agent itself, it can mimic our daily style and be close to our work and life Xi.
It's like Ultraman launched a GPTs store on ChatGPT, although it has been criticized a lot because of its poor effect. But in practice, this already represents a definite trend.
IDC's survey found that all enterprises believe that AI Agent is the definitive direction of AIGC's development, and at the same time, 50% of enterprises have already carried out a pilot project (survey object: 100 large enterprises with annual revenue of more than 500 million yuan in manufacturing, medical, Internet, finance, and retail industries). This means that "human + AI assistant" will become the mainstream collaboration model in the future, and it will also change the organizational form of productivity.
Second, natural language redefines the interactive entrance of applications, and a "/" can evoke various AI tools and capabilities.
Dialogue is the entrance, and in the new year will bring more physical awareness.
Many traditional GUI interactions will be replaced, and more tool-based applications will be built around the concept of "no App", when the software company will be more like an intelligent system operator, and various intelligent applications will be integrated into a "super entrance".
This is actually like the "/" magic wand launched by DingTalk last year. There is no need to open various apps, and only a slash is needed to invoke AI capabilities such as summarization, authoring, Q&A, and application building.
IDC believes that there are two main forms of such applications: one is the upgrading and transformation of existing software, adding AI capabilities to the original products, and the other is thinking about the integration of AI from the beginning of product and solution design to break through the deep needs of more enterprises.
In short, applications are moving from cloud-native to AI-native, from "+AI" to "AI+".
But no matter which one it is, it is certain that for migrant workers, there is no need to toss and turn around various apps, nor do they need to interact with keyboards or fingers, but only need to speak in natural language, take a photo, and send a picture, which can realize the liberation of productivity.
Leave all the volume to AI, and give more time for being in a daze and thinking to humans. What we can foresee is that AI will be seamlessly integrated into our work and life, AI is everywhere, and everyone can be enhanced.
This is not only a general trend, but also hints at what we workers can do with AI in the new year, and how can we use AI to bless ourselves?
2024: Empowering everyone to harness AI
The ten trends in AIGC application mentioned above are developed from the general direction of the industry and industry.
Specific to our daily work, knowing what AI has been able to do and what it is about to do, we can further predict from the underlying logic, and this underlying logic is very simple-
First of all, in principle, the bottom of the wave of AIGC is the technological transformation of "generative AI".
The law of change in generative AI is from simple to complex, from dialogue to action, from unimodal to multimodal (remember this law and you will not be bluffed).
The current maturity of AIGC technology has clearly shown the following status:
Generate text, which is ripe. Whether it is ChatGPT, or various large models and text generation software in China, AI one-click manuscript is no longer a problem.
Generate code that is half-cooked. Generate complete code logic according to natural language, implement coding completion, and even give debug suggestions, but the reason why it is said to be half-cooked is because the accuracy of generating code needs to be improved, and more often it can only be used to assist and improve efficiency.
Generate an image that appears half-cooked. MidJourney, StableDiffusion, DALL-E3 Jewel, Adobe Photoshop has also integrated AI capabilities, and although it can use LoRA and other perfections to generate content, there is still a lot of room for improvement in image generation in terms of details and understanding human intent.
Generating a video, ripening. Pika at the end of the year has been open to all users for free, and it is the kind of version that can modify a specific area without regenerating the entire video, but like generating images, the bug is that it still relies heavily on prompts, and faces problems such as lack of training data and insufficient time to generate products.
After knowing the maturity of the corresponding underlying technology, I can sincerely give us workers a few specific New Year's suggestions——
Text-related, AI can be used, whether it is a year-end summary, official account creation or paper abstract, AIGC's text generation ability has been very stable and easy to use.
Code-related, you can let AI give you a hand at any time, although you can't directly use the ability of AI to generate code, but it's no problem to improve efficiency.
Graphing is a Xi process that needs to be adapted to the way it interacts with AI in order to grasp its potential.
Video-related, you can keep aware, know the approximate progress, and wait for the day when the technology is mature, and you can pick it up at any time and "use it for me".
Of course, in addition to understanding and learning how AI can help you Xi category, a simpler way is also in front of you, that is, to use mainstream office software and platforms, such as DingTalk.
After all, as a national-level app used by 600 million people, on the one hand, it has complete functions and a lower threshold for learning Xi and practical AI capabilities, so that you can easily get started, and on the other hand, as a large platform and super app, it can often continue to provide the most guaranteed new technologies and new capabilities, allowing you to keep up with the rhythm of AI.
In fact, since 2023, DingTalk has indeed been like this - providing various AI capabilities wave after wave to enhance workers in an all-round way.
First, Ali's large model capabilities were quickly nailed.
As early as April last year, at the DingTalk Summit, DingTalk announced access to the Ali Tongyi model and released a "slash" DingTalk magic wand. In the following 100 days, DingTalk has completed intelligent reengineering of 17 product lines and nearly 100 scenarios.
DingTalk has also launched a DingTalk personal version for small team users, individual users, and university users, aiming to provide lighter AI productivity tools and improve individual efficiency.
It is undeniable that in the face of the wave of the new era, whoever seizes the opportunity first will attract the attention of more markets and users.
For example, the Luban camera, which has attracted much attention in the personal version, can summon personalized workplace style photos in the workplace by using daily life photos.
If you are not satisfied with a two-dimensional personal workplace image photo, the personal version also provides a smart portrait function, which can generate a digital human image that can speak and move.
I've already started dreaming of beauty, and in the future, video conferences can make the AIGC generation digital clone that is no different from me open (bushi) for me.
Second, from chat to work, AI that does not enter the productivity scene is not good AI.
The key to AI technology is whether it can effectively help solve real-world problems, improve productivity, boost economic development, and make a difference in various industries.
For example, Aiwei Electronics has built an exclusive model in DingTalk, and based on this model, it has built an "IC intelligent customer service". Then Aiwei Electronics fed all the databases accumulated in the past to this model, and after training and tuning, IC intelligent customer service became a "chip expert" and a powerful helper for employees to connect with customers.
Compared with traditional Q&A bots, this agent can "understand" the user's contextual conversation, generate much more natural answers, and eliminate the need to maintain keywords and Q&A libraries frequently, which greatly reduces costs.
Third, nailing others also crosses oneself. The more people use it, the more AI products and developments will gather.
For example, in August this year, DingTalk launched the AI PaaS intelligent base for ecological partners and customers, which also represents the official entry of DingTalk intelligence into the ecological layer.
The first batch of six ecological partners to participate in the co-creation, including No. 1 Zhaozhao, Youcheng CRM, Yijing Cloud, iHR, Cool Academy, and WinPlan, and the "digital employee" developed based on AI PaaS are also online in the DingTalk intelligent application market.
Digital employees can enter the address book as an enterprise assistant, obtain the corresponding job permissions, and participate in the organization, collaboration and business processes of the enterprise, and they can complete daily work such as copywriting, intelligent Q&A, data analysis, and business operations through natural language......
With the blessing of AIGC, DingTalk, which has already practiced super apps, will also become a super entrance to AI applications and tools.
Of course, this clear trend is also a clear benefit to us, after all, who is not a DingTalk user.
Just remember these three principles
However, since you can use and learn on the super app DingTalk, do you still have to remember so many AIGC trends?
Let's just remember these three principles.
First of all, don't question AI in the new year, understand AI, apply AI, and become a person who controls AI.
I still remember that when ChatGPT first became popular around the world at the beginning of last year, the topic of "whether AI can replace humans" was overwhelming, which was enough to arouse people's anxiety.
Now, a year later, the emergence of various AIGC applications has shown a definite trend, that is, AI will not replace humans, but humans can rely on AI to augment themselves.
And now, those new applications and new functions that rely on AI are not complicated to use, and the new skills are easy to master. What is certain is that the new opportunities of every era must be the first to favor those who are ready for them.
No, we have also seen many examples of relying on ChatGPT to build websites, build applications, and then make money.
Of course, if you don't have a money-making brain like me, you can improve your work efficiency~
Second, if you don't go to AI, AI will go to you.
In the past year, whether it is investment, entrepreneurial ecology, the layout of giant companies, or the development of developer communities, while large models have prospered and developed in all walks of life, AIGC's business model, scenario application, and customized model development will continue to innovate. More and more production scenarios are being upgraded, and more and more AI applications are exploding and emerging.
Moreover, this value and capability of AI is also being accelerated and inclusive, nested and infiltrated into industries, enterprises, organizations, and business processes.
There are also seemingly effortless real efforts, such as providing efficient intelligent Q&A based on the accumulated professional knowledge of the enterprise, extracting reports and analyzing data in one sentence based on the business data of the enterprise, and providing valuable information for decision-makers.
Finally, new technologies bring new applications, and new applications will shape new super entrances and super apps.
First, for migrant workers, our daily work is actually nothing more than completing three things: communication, collaboration and business.
To meet such needs, DingTalk is one. As a user of it, it is not difficult to find that there are various tools and applications for different interfaces, but they are actually solving these three major scenarios.
Second, because the problems that need to be solved on a daily basis are too fragmented and need to be used every day.
Even if you have the money to upgrade to ChatGPT Plus membership to use its plug-in, or customize a GPTs, it can't be completely solved, not to mention that GPTs are criticized in various ways.
Not to mention those light apps, small programs, etc., which only focus on specific functions, it is too troublesome to convert each application.
The super entrance of AI applications like DingTalk reasonably solves these problems: an App can integrate various AI functions, and the work can be done with half the effort.
The key is that it's also cost-effective!!
On the whole, it's not that ChatGPT Plus can't afford it, but that the potential super app is more cost-effective now.
Moreover, in China, super APPs that have been verified like DingTalk are indeed rapidly obtaining AIGC dividends, especially AIGC application layer dividends, which allow us to be enhanced and empowered as soon as possible.
In other words, the anxiety of AI technology should be rolled by the super app, and the nail roll is ready, and it will be presented comfortably, and we will reasonably let the AI help us do some work.
The same work is easier and more efficient. Isn't the time for fishing innovation coming out?
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