The Economic Information Daily reporter learned from the 2019 World Artificial Intelligence Conference on the 29th that China’s artificial intelligence open innovation platform has added a "new army", and 10 head enterprises including Huawei’s basic software and hardware platform, Ping An inclusive finance platform and Xiaomi’s smart home platform have been officially selected.
As an important driving force of the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, the development of artificial intelligence industry once again ushered in the policy "dividend" period. In this field, China has gradually embarked on a unique development path of demand-oriented leading business model innovation, market application forcing basic theory and key technology innovation.
Support policies for platform expansion are intensively introduced.
Shanghai will speed up the construction of a new generation of national experimental zone for artificial intelligence innovation and development, promote scientific and technological innovation and institutional innovation in the same direction, make all the vitality of artificial intelligence knowledge, technology, management and capital compete with generate, encourage the latest achievements of artificial intelligence to take the lead in "testing the water" in Shanghai, strive to make original breakthroughs in some key core areas, and strive to become an important source of global artificial intelligence innovation. This is the information obtained by the reporter at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference on the 29th.
At the same time, Shanghai will make good use of major opportunities such as the construction of a new area of the Pilot Free Trade Zone, the integrated development of science and technology innovation board and the Yangtze River Delta, build a global frontier innovation platform and benchmark for application scenarios, promote standard communication, facility connectivity, smooth trade and financial intermediation in the field of artificial intelligence, and promote the cross-regional cross-disciplinary cross-industry development of artificial intelligence.
This is just a "microcosm". At the forum on the same day, the Ministry of Science and Technology officially added ten national new-generation artificial intelligence open innovation platforms, including relying on Shanghai Yitu Network Technology Co., Ltd. to build a national new-generation artificial intelligence open innovation platform for visual computing, relying on Shanghai Mingluo Artificial Intelligence (Group) Co., Ltd. to build a national new-generation artificial intelligence open innovation platform for marketing intelligence, and relying on Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. to build a national new-generation artificial intelligence open innovation platform for basic software and hardware. Since then, China’s national AI innovation platform has expanded to 15.
While building a top-level communication platform for the development of artificial intelligence in the world, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology also continued to "unveil the list" for the world. At the meeting, four test tracks were launched: intelligent networked car, medical image-assisted diagnosis, visual image identification and smart sensor.
New technology blessing industrialization accelerates landing
Under the "blessing" of new technologies, the industrialization of artificial intelligence in China has accelerated. "According to the calculation of relevant institutions, the scale of China’s artificial intelligence industry is expected to exceed 160 billion yuan by 2020, driving related industries to exceed 1 trillion yuan." Lin Nianxiu, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission, said at the meeting.
At present, the blueprint of a new generation of artificial intelligence industry in China has initially appeared. Among them, the national new-generation artificial intelligence innovation and development pilot zones in Beijing and Shanghai have taken the lead, and the new-generation artificial intelligence demonstration parks are accelerating. The three major artificial intelligence industrial clusters represented by Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao have taken shape, and the total number of artificial intelligence enterprises accounts for 86% of the country.
With the development of new technologies such as big data, cloud computing, speech recognition, face recognition, security, somatosensory interaction, and intelligent manufacturing, in addition to BAT betting, Haier, Huawei, Xiaomi, Meituan, Didi, and Today Headlines have also entered the field of artificial intelligence.
In this regard, industry experts pointed out that "artificial intelligence+manufacturing" is still an important foothold for the development of artificial intelligence. With the spillover effect of artificial intelligence on traditional industries, the application scenarios of artificial intelligence enterprises will accelerate. At present, in addition to building autonomous driving by Baidu, building urban brains by Alibaba Cloud Company, building medical images by Tencent, building intelligent voice by Iflytek and building intelligent vision by Shang Tang Group, the new generation of artificial intelligence open innovation platforms are widely used in manufacturing, medical care, transportation, home, security, network security and other fields. There are more than 1,000 artificial intelligence enterprises in China, and the upsurge of AI chips and open source continues to heat up. The head start-ups such as Shang Tang, Yuncong, Defiance and Yitu are facing fierce competition.
Take SAIC Motor Group as an example. In recent years, it has built the largest cloud computing big data center and the first artificial intelligence laboratory in the industry around the three major areas of intelligent driving, smart travel and intelligent manufacturing, actively explored the integration of big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, 5G and other information and communication technologies with application scenarios, seized the development opportunity of deep integration of cutting-edge technologies and the real economy, and accelerated the evolution and transformation of the automobile industry. The 5G smart heavy truck is the latest achievement of SAIC’s independent innovation. Combined with the advanced 5G-V2X vehicle communication technology, it can realize L4 automatic driving, centimeter-level positioning, accurate parking, interaction with automation equipment and queue driving.
The penetration of the new generation of artificial intelligence technology into traditional industries is unprecedented. Lei Tao, CEO of Tianyun Big Data, said that with the mature application of cloud computing and open source software technology and the arrival of the era of big data, IT began to transform into DT, the ecology was reshuffled, and the information industry itself had undergone subversive changes.
The construction of industry legal system has been accelerated and improved.
As a new thing, artificial intelligence has been controversial in law and ethics. In May 2019, the Shanghai National New Generation Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Development Experimental Zone was unveiled, which clarified the relevant tasks of establishing and improving policies, regulations, ethical norms and governance systems. In June, the National Professional Committee of New Generation Artificial Intelligence Governance issued the Principles of New Generation Artificial Intelligence Governance, which highlighted the theme of responsible and open collaboration.
On the 29th, the Youth Working Committee of Shanghai Computer Society issued the Shanghai Declaration on Innovative Governance of Artificial Intelligence for Young Scientists in China in 2019 (hereinafter referred to as the Shanghai Declaration), emphasizing the four major responsibilities that should be followed in the development of artificial intelligence: ethical responsibility, safety responsibility, legal responsibility and social responsibility.
Ma Huateng, Chairman and CEO of Tencent Board of Directors, said that the urgency of AI governance is getting higher and higher, and AI governance should be guided by "technology is good" to ensure that AI is "knowable", "controllable", "available" and "reliable". Ma Huateng also said that today, no country has all the resources, technologies and capabilities needed for a new round of global scientific, technological and industrial revolution. Strengthening global governance and cooperation is an indispensable part of the development of AI.
"We must actively promote pluralistic co-governance, adhere to multi-agent participation, combine multiple means, tailor governance rules, deepen moral and ethical research, strengthen security, protect personal privacy, standardize industry order, and escort the healthy and orderly development of artificial intelligence." Lin Nianxiu revealed that the country will focus on three major actions in the next step.
The first is to implement the artificial intelligence innovation partner action. Focus on 100 artificial enterprises, intelligent technology enterprises and application enterprises, support collaborative research and development, collaborative production and collaborative promotion, solve common technologies, and promote the deep integration of artificial intelligence and real economy. The second is to implement artificial intelligence resource sharing actions. Build an artificial intelligence industry innovation center, improve the open source platform system, deepen the integration of government information systems and information resources sharing, issue guidance to promote the development of new infrastructure, and build an artificial intelligence industry ecology. The third is to implement the open development action of artificial intelligence. Deepen all-round cooperation with countries around the world in the fields of artificial intelligence technology, standards, industries, laws and regulations, ethics, etc., discuss artificial intelligence governance rules, jointly build major artificial intelligence projects, and share the development achievements of artificial intelligence.
Reporter Zhong Yuan