Kai-Fu Lee: There are huge opportunities in four areas, including AI automation and advanced computing architecture

Beijing News Shell Financial News (reporter Luo Yidan) On October 25, Kai-Fu Lee, chairman and CEO of Innovation Factory, said at the 2021 iFLYTEK Global 1024 Developer Festival that there are huge opportunities in the four fields of AI automation, advanced computing architecture, new energy technology and life science technology.

Kai-Fu Lee believes that in the context of the huge technological revolution, the countries that have led all aspects of technology will have a very big advantage in the next few decades or even hundreds of years. "For example, the first industrial revolution was the United Kingdom that got this advantage, the second and third times were mainly the United States, and today we enter the fourth industrial revolution, and its scale and influence will be greater than the first three, because it is not only based on the TMT field."

Kai-Fu Lee believes that AI automation, advanced computing architecture, new energy technology and life science technology will create many new models, in energy materials, communications, transportation, automation, informatization has also spawned some leading enterprises, and these 4 major technology areas are also crossed, mutual empowerment, mutual promotion, "for example, AI and advanced computing may bring automation in the manufacturing field, and automation in the manufacturing field will promote the development of new energy." ”

For the major technological changes to human life, Kai-Fu Lee said, for example, from 2011 to 2012, computer vision produced a technological jump, and then every year there was a very good growth, and before that, the growth was relatively slow, the reason is because convolutional neural network technology began to be used in 2012, and in 2015 (the technology in some applications) surpassed humans. "We can imagine that when a technological computer surpasses humans, it can replace humans, empower humans, expand our capabilities and reduce our costs." When computer vision technology develops to the point where AI recognizes some objects that are as good as people, or even better, we will find that applications have blown up, and there are many very good applications in retail, industrial manufacturing, intelligent quality inspection, medical treatment, and automatic driving. ”

It is understood that Innovation Factory has been tracking convolutional neural network technology since 2011, investing in more than 10 companies in this direction from the basic to the application level. Kai-Fu Lee said that this is also one of the areas with the highest returns.

"Today's innovation workshop is no longer an AI investment institution, we are a multi-field technology investment institution. Over the years, we have helped scientists do a lot of good startups, and we are more able to get the trust of scientists. In the development process of today's four major technologies, we hope to catch more good business opportunities. Kai-Fu Lee said.

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