From Algorithm to China's "Core": "Changing" Kinetic Energy of China's AI Industry in Intelligent Times

The phrase "coreless (chip) and less soul (operating system)" broke through the embarrassing situation of China's information industry in the PC era. Nowadays, when the artificial intelligence (AI) wave hits, at the 19th China International Industry Fair held in Shanghai, a breakthrough in top technology is highlighting the opportunities in China for the smart era and bringing the Chinese AI industry a "jump." Change "kinetic energy.

Entering the top of the industry, there is a group of AI "knife"

This year, the Industrial and Commercial Exposition set up an artificial intelligence area. At the Cambrian exhibition stand in Shanghai, a circuit board smaller than the Pad was displayed. The staff pointed to a small square in the middle of the finger. “This chip was developed by us independently.”

"Three years later, we must strive to occupy 30% of China's high-performance smart chip market and strive to use more than one billion smart terminals in the world to use the Cambrian terminal processor technology." Cambrian founder and CEO Chen Tianshi said that the smart chip demonstrated this time has been optimized in terms of power consumption, energy efficiency ratio, and cost expenditure. “The performance and power consumption ratio achieves a leap and the scope of application covers image recognition, security monitoring, intelligent driving, and drones. Key application areas such as speech recognition and natural language processing."

So far, globally, none of the company's AI ecosystems have received approval from the industry as a whole and there are no established standards, which all provide opportunities for China to achieve "jumping changes" in the AI ​​field. More and more companies have proved that the development of AI in China has not only the advantage of data, but also the improvement of algorithmic systems and the development of application scenarios.

In this area, many companies including Yitu, Shangtang, etc. have brought out “face recognition” solutions. In this area, there are many top international events, and the FRVT test organized by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology has been dubbed the real "closed-book exam" in the industry. In 2017, Intu Technologies became the first Chinese team to win this competition. Fan Yanyan, vice president of the company, introduced a one-hundred-million-dollar, large-scale identification and ultra-low false alarm rate, and is committed to bringing the technology to the scene.

Application-driven "China program" that shows AI landing

In July of this year, the State Council issued a "New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan", which made a profound analysis of China's short board. Lack of major original results, the gap between the basic theory, core algorithms and key equipment, high-end chips, major products and systems, basic materials, components, software and interfaces is large; scientific institutions and enterprises have not yet formed an ecologically influential ecological system. Circles and industry chains; artificial intelligence is far from the top talent; the infrastructure, policies, regulations, and standards for artificial intelligence development need to be improved.

As a latecomer, the basic layer technology is relatively weak, but the technology layer and application layer as a breakthrough, including face recognition, voice recognition and other fields are in advance. The reporter learned that many places in Shanghai, Anhui, Zhejiang, Guizhou, and Jiangxi have planned ahead and laid out this future industry in advance.

Chen Mingbo, director of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economics and Letters, said that in the wave of artificial intelligence, Shanghai will be driven by applications, focusing on industrial chain integration and industrial ecology, data integration, platform construction, demonstration applications, production and research efficiency, and industrial ecosystem support system. , industrial policies and other aspects of serious research and advancing.

Data is the fuel for artificial intelligence and one of the core elements of attracting talent. In this regard, as the owner of many core data, the government is actively changing its thinking. “We insist on putting application drivers first, and we will strengthen data sharing and open up a number of demonstration application projects in areas such as urban security, government services, health care, and cultural creativity.” Fang Shizhong, District Governor of Xuhui District, Shanghai, said that Xuhui’s goals are: By 2020, it will basically build a complete artificial intelligence ecosystem and build an internationally-renowned artificial intelligence innovation center to form an artificial intelligence industry cluster with a scale of 10 billion yuan.

Grasp the opportunity of “change” and move forward to the main artificial intelligence innovation center in the world

Sun Ninghui, director of the Institute of Computing at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that in the face of new situations and new opportunities, it should focus on cultivating and expanding the artificial intelligence based hardware and software companies, injecting new momentum into the development of China's smart industry. “Our research and development has occupied a global leading position in the field of smart chips, and through cooperation with upstream and downstream partners in the industry, we are expected to lead the Chinese artificial intelligence industry to 'change lanes and overtaking'.”

Among them, the most critical thing is people. Earlier this year, McKinsey reported that China and the United States are currently the leaders of global AI development, but recruiting talent is critical to China’s AI development. More than half of the data scientists in the United States have more than 10 years of work experience, while researchers with less than five years of experience in China have as high as 40%.

In response to this, the plan explicitly proposed to strengthen cooperation between industry, universities and research institutes and encourage universities, research institutes, and enterprises to cooperate in the development of artificial intelligence disciplines. Reporters also observed that more and more technology companies have begun to cooperate with colleges and universities to provide powerful computing capabilities and a large number of data assets, providing "actual combat exercises" for researchers engaged in machine learning. Just last month, Shanghai Jiaotong University and Shang Tang Technology announced the establishment of a joint laboratory for "deep learning and computer vision."

“The key to competition in the field of artificial intelligence is talent competition. Talents who are proficient in deep learning technology are difficult to cultivate through traditional methods and must achieve seamless integration between academic and industrial circles.” said Xu Li, co-founder and CEO of Shang Tang Technology. This will not only promote the mutual transformation of technology and applications, but also the mutual penetration of corporate needs and scientific research directions. It will also effectively promote the cultivation of cutting-edge talent in the AI ​​field and help build China's original technology.

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