"At present, a new generation of information technology represented by artificial intelligence is booming, driving a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation. In the new stage of development, artificial intelligence technology is becoming more and more complex, and integration and innovation have become the new normal; At the same time, with the penetration of artificial intelligence technology in various industries, it is increasingly important to lower the threshold for different application scenarios. " Wu Tian, vice president of Baidu Group, said at the "AI Face to Face" media communication meeting on September 13.
"Integrated innovation" covers four aspects. In the integration and innovation of knowledge and deep learning, we have created a multi-dimensional heterogeneous ultra-large-scale knowledge map with 550 billion knowledge, and released a "knowledge enhancement model"-Ernie 3.0, which will jointly train large-scale knowledge and massive data, so as to have more knowledge; Unify language understanding and language generation, so as to have stronger language understanding, reasoning and literary creation ability. Wenxin once refreshed the benchmark of 54 Chinese NLP tasks in one fell swoop, and its English model topped the global list in SuperGLUE, the international authoritative complex language understanding task evaluation, breaking through the 90 mark for the first time, refreshing the list history and surpassing human achievements.
In the aspect of cross-modal multi-technology integration and innovation, by integrating different modal technologies such as language, voice and vision, we can realize cross-modal deep semantic understanding of complex real scenes like human beings, and then gain a unified understanding of the real world. Based on this technical ability, it has refreshed the world's best achievements in five typical multimodal tasks: visual common sense reasoning, visual question and answer, citation expression understanding, multimodal image retrieval and multimodal text retrieval, and surpassed Microsoft, Google, Facebook and other institutions in the visual common sense reasoning task (VCR) of the authoritative list of multimodal fields, reaching the top.
At the same time, the artificial intelligence technology is deeply applied to practical application scenarios, and it is integrated with the scenarios for innovation. At present, AI has released value in search, simultaneous interpretation, office meetings and other application scenarios, as well as industrial manufacturing, energy, finance, cities, media, medical care and other fields. For example, intelligent quality inspection doubles work efficiency, and intelligent inspection of power grid can prevent sudden dangers in time. Digital employees who work 24 hours a day have been employed in financial institutions, and urban governance problems such as muck trucks have been solved in front of the AI ? ? brain.
In terms of software and hardware integration innovation, its self-developed AI chip Baidu Kunlun is optimized for AI technologies such as voice, natural language processing and images, and can support deep learning frameworks such as flying paddles, flexibly support training and prediction, and make the AI model more efficient and effective; The Honghu chip developed for far-field voice interaction makes voice interaction with cars, smart homes and other devices more convenient and smooth.
"Convergence and innovation" is making Baidu AI more and more capable. In the past few years, it was praised by Harvard Business Review as "the enterprise with the earliest investment, the strongest technology and the most comprehensive layout in the AI field in China", and was selected as the "Top Five AI Companies in 20 19" list, and was also selected as the "Top 50 Smart Companies" in MIT Science and Technology Review for two consecutive years. In the past year, AI has won nearly 30 championships in the world's top artificial intelligence academic conferences and related competitions such as CVPR, ECCV, NeurIPS and INTERSPEECH. By the end of 2020, more than 260 academic papers have been submitted to the International AI Summit, and the international influence of AI academics has been continuously improved.
However, the value of scientific and technological innovation needs to be reflected in leading high-quality economic and social development. How to make cutting-edge AI technology easier to use? "lowering the threshold" is another feature of Baidu brain 7.0. "Lowering the threshold" is mainly achieved through the core pedestal "deep learning of flying oars" platform. Flying Paddle is an industrial-grade platform with independent research and development, the earliest open source and rich functions in China, and has been committed to meeting the needs of different industries, different stages and different types of developers.
"From the path observed during the cooperation between propeller and partners, the process of applying AI by enterprises can be divided into three stages: AI pioneer exploration, AI workshop application and AI industrial mass production. With comprehensive and rich technologies, functions, products and services, paddle supports partners to cope with the difficulties at all stages, realize the leap of stages, and introduce AI into their own business more and more deeply. " Wu Tian said.
In addition to providing rich tools to help developers use AI technology quickly and efficiently, we have also joined forces with academia and industry to cultivate compound AI talents who understand algorithms, business and engineering. Now we have built a full-cycle service system covering learning, practice, competition, certification and employment. Up to now, more than 3.6 million developers from all walks of life have developed 400,000 AI models, serving 1.3 million enterprises and institutions.
At present, all walks of life are experiencing industrial intelligent transformation and upgrading driven by AI technology. In the industrial field, build a safe and controllable industrial intelligent infrastructure, empower design, research and development, manufacturing, supply logistics, sales and operation, and help enterprises reduce costs and increase efficiency, be green and double carbon, and upgrade intelligently. In the financial field, intelligent financial applications, such as digital employees, remote banking and intelligent marketing, are accelerating, which will help improve the quality and efficiency of auditing, risk control and customer service, and enhance China's financial infrastructure and services.
The smart city solution based on Baidu brain technology is gaining insight into urban development in Xiong 'an, realizing accurate management of urban brain in Lijiang, empowering the industry in Zhangjiang, Shanghai, and landing intelligent non-inductive parking applications in Chengdu. Spiritual medicine Zhihui evidence-based AI empowers primary care, and cooperates with Aier Eye Hospital to build a fundus screening machine to make eye disease screening more convenient; Primary hospitals in Hubei Province assist in diagnosis and treatment, making quality diagnosis and treatment more accessible; The pilot project of integrating medical treatment, prevention and treatment of diabetes in Lodz country has made the management of chronic diseases more standardized.
In today's world, scientific and technological innovation has become the focus of national strategic layout and international competition for the right to subsistence, development and discourse. The 14th Five-Year Plan clearly points out that innovation is the core position in the overall situation of China's modernization, and scientific and technological self-reliance is the strategic support for national development. Scientific and technological innovation is being given an important role in leading the overall development of the country.
Analysts pointed out that the growing strength of independent scientific and technological innovation in China, represented by artificial intelligence and led by enterprises, will help China to seize more initiative in the new round of industrial transformation driven by artificial intelligence, accelerate the transformation of cutting-edge technologies into advanced productive forces, establish new advantages in international competition, and seize the highland of economic development in the intelligent era.