On November 8, 2017, AI World 2017 was held in Beijing National Convention Center. More than 100 AI leaders at home and abroad gave presentations and discussions covering the most cutting-edge technologies, academia and industry, and more than 2,000 AI elites participated in the event. Li Changping, deputy head of Haidian District, and He Baohong, deputy secretary general of China Artificial Intelligence Industry Development Alliance, addressed the conference. At the meeting, Yang Jing, founder and CEO of Xinzhiyuan, and Hu Yichuan, assistant CTO, released the world’s first interactive information platform for AI experts “Xinzhiyuan V Enjoy Circle”, based on which to build a million-level AI industry ecological platform. AI World 2017 “AI Oscars” awards of the Year Top10 People, Top10 Superstar Companies, Top10 Innovative Companies, Top10 Innovative Products and Top10 Venture capital institutions were announced at the conference. The 2017 China Artificial Intelligence Industry Development Index Report was also released at the conference. The 2017 China Artificial Intelligence Industry Development Index was fixed at 75, with an increase of 44.23% compared with 2016.
2017 saw the birth of AI, and China’s AI top-level design completed a “trilogy” : AI was written into the Government Work Report at the beginning of the year, The State Council issued the Development Plan for the Next Generation of ARTIFICIAL Intelligence in the middle of the year, and AI was written into the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. As a scientific and technological force, artificial intelligence has risen to a high status of national strategy.
Li Changping, deputy head of Beijing’s Haidian District, attended the conference and delivered a speech. She said, “AI is expected to see faster and better development in the future. It will be combined with more traditional industries and Internet plus to better support the all-round development of our economy and society.”
He Baohong, deputy secretary-general of China’s artificial intelligence industry alliance for the speech, he said: “in April, sponsored by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), net letter do artificial intelligence industry alliance in China, many entrepreneurs are our union members and invited experts, aims to build domestic high-level production of artificial intelligence communication platform.”
New intellectual iQIYI yuan jointly launched the AI leaders interview video released at the conference for the first time, the Stanford artificial intelligence laboratory director, chief scientist at the Google cloud Li Fei fly, Google cloud machine learning/supervisor angel lee, kuang artificial intelligence technology Face++ Tang Wenbin and chief scientist sun, Beijing university, director of the center for information science innovation of artificial intelligence of thunder, Bring their understanding of “Smart plus” and their blessing to the conference. (Video address: http://www.iqiyi.com/v_19rrdv65m8.html?social_platform=wechat_friend&p1=2_22_221&from=singlemessage&isappinstalled=0&wx_ Uid1 = wxidoG0a9jsLZic2yTnXxwvXX83oEkFY & wx_uid2 = wxidoG0a9jsLZic2yTnXxwvXX83oEkFY)
Both Li and Li say they want AI to empower traditional industries and make AI technology have a real impact on people’s lives. Li jia said she found many interesting machine learning problems in industry that she hadn’t realized before. These problems are usually in traditional industries, while AI talent tends to be concentrated in Internet technology companies, which has a big Gap. ‘We hope more AI people can use their technical expertise to influence all walks of life,’ li said.
This international event invited AI leaders from amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Intel, Samsung, Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, Huawei, IFlyTEK, Inspur and other well-known global enterprises to attend and deliver speeches. In addition, there are many Star Chinese entrepreneurial enterprises, such as, CEO and chief scientist of bitmain, megvii Face++, little I robot, etc. Large and small enterprises gather together in the industrial ecological chain and compete with each other in technological strength.
Mr. Yu Hu, executive President of IFLYtek and President of consumer business Group, opened the conference with a speech titled “A new era of artificial intelligence, Creating a new business ecology”. Hu Yu showed the changes and innovations that AI+ has brought to our lives and various industries through the interpretation of AI concepts, ideas, development history and technology path. He thinks, he thinks, artificial intelligence can change the world from two Angle, the first is the changing industry, by the ability of intelligent learning absorption has the most valuable experience in the industry support, another aspect is the use of artificial intelligence system change of our products, like mobile phones, smart home, etc., change the way people and objects interact, change our world.
Microsoft global senior vice president, Microsoft (Asia) Internet Engineering Institute President Wang Yongdong in the title of “EQ+IQ, the future OF AI new Definition” in the speech mentioned that artificial intelligence has finally walked out of the laboratory of scientists and science fiction, gradually into the lives of ordinary people, the tide of scientific and technological revolution is accelerating. Microsoft’s vision and idea in the wave of AI development is to bring together ai researchers, scientists and engineering teams within the company to jointly advance the development of AI, from infrastructure to services, applications and media.
Wang Haifeng, vice president of Baidu and head of AI technology platform, said in his speech that AI is the new productivity and will be the most important foundation for improving human productivity for a long time to come. He said that many technologies that seem to be at the perceptual and cognitive layers are relatively independent, and each technology has a lot of problems that need to be studied and solved, but when they are combined and endowed with knowledge, we can do more things.
In the next world, AI AI shake the future of the industry leaders BBS BBS, founder of new intelligence yuan giudice lc personally presided over, vice President of IBM’s global Shen Xiaowei, huawei consumer business chief strategy officer Shao Yang Hu Leijun, wave group vice President, CEO and bit mainland ZhanKeTuan discuss 2017 industry events, looking for Chinese AI + new kinetic energy. Topics such as AlphaGo Zero, Google TPU and Ali Damoyuan were mentioned, and guests shared their views on “how China can cultivate a great company like DeepMind”. China’s AI development is gradually leading the world. The new driving force of China’s AI+ lies in new algorithms, new calculations and new data, as well as new ideas and patterns.
Host Yang Jing asked, AlphaGo Zero’s sudden emergence has raised a “big data useless theory” in the industry, what do you think?
“On the other hand, it may be too early to talk about the uselessness of big data,” Shen said. “Take Weiqi for example. The rules of Weiqi itself are very simple. And that’s true of many games, even if you don’t have labeled data, you can handle it pretty well. But many realistic problems, such as health, of course, the rules also not clear, choose also is varied, in this context, today still need to have a lot of artificial intelligent technology breakthrough, learning how to use the data level, how to make your study results can be interpreted, I think it should still have many challenges ahead.
Shao Yang said, Google, Apple, Facebook and other large enterprises through billions of dollars, billions of dollars of products brought to people’s lives, but at the same time, they are doing enclosure movement. He also said that Huawei is not a listed company, and our performance may not need to pursue too much in the short term. On the other hand, we do not want our employees to be particularly rich, because they will not struggle in the future. Huawei loves to invest, but hates to burn money. What is engagement? Input is doing it purposefully and in a planned way, revising the results and continuing to revise the input in the process.
Hu leijun said, “If we are building houses and providing functions after building houses, we may be more like building bricks. But I think as the foundation of an industry, you have to look at the future development of the industry. AI in the future is not just a piece of iceberg under the sea, but to see a new dimension of space, we just touch a edge of it, the future to show us much more space, for a specific server supplier, we may have greater development in the future.”
“If Inspur makes bricks, we make sand, we make chips,” he says. This chip is too academic to talk about, but it is a deep learning computing chip in essence. Just now, many reports said that big data requires very strong computing power, and CPU is definitely not suitable for it. Today’s GPU must also be improved, and Bitmain will do something within its capacity in this regard.”
In the morning of the main forum, Yang Jing, founder and CEO of Xinzhiyuan, and Hu Yichuan, assistant CTO of Laiye, released the new Zhiyuan THINK tank expert interactive platform — Xinzhiyuan V Circle.
“V Enjoy circle” is open to all users, and experts authenticated by the background can post and share. Ordinary users can now view experts’ shares, like them, comment on them or share them with their wechat friends and groups. So far, more than 100 experts have joined, including hu Yu, Jia Yangqing, Zhou Feng, Wang Yu, Zhang Shengyu, Sun Jian, Zhang Baofeng, Chen Yunji, Yan Shuicheng, Song Jiqiang, Hua Gang, Zhou Ming, Li Hang, Yao Song, Rui Yong, Xiong Hui and other well-known AI experts, as well as ali Technology and other organizations.
Yang Jing said, “The original intention of the new Zhiyuan think tank expert interactive platform is to bring thousands of AI experts together through such a platform to disseminate AI technology, explore the most cutting-edge development of AI, and promote the application of AI technology together with upstream and downstream resources of the industrial chain.”
She pointed out that the current intelligence + industrialization has several major pain points: first, how to acquire the relevant technical knowledge and talents of intelligence + industrialization? As AI talents are scarce, technical experts have become highly needed transformation consultants in various industries. However, in the process of AI technology dissemination, it is inevitable for various media to be unfamiliar with technical details and distorted and exaggerated. Therefore, it should be the most direct and reliable way for traditional industry AI+ to let experts interpret AI themselves and put forward feasible solutions and suggestions.
Second, how to integrate industrial chain resources? As we all know, companies with AI technology as the core, no matter industry giants or startups, face difficulties in implementing business models to varying degrees. As mentioned above, the demand for AI+ in traditional industries is very strong, but in fact, our AI company is not well connected with the demand of the industry, or the service does not match. That shows that there is a lack of links in the industry chain. China’s AI industry chain needs to establish cross-border integration and close links with traditional industries, governments and academia. Xinzhiyuan hopes to promote AI+ in traditional industries, so that AI can empower traditional industries, and at the same time promote the connection between AI enterprises and traditional industries to establish a fast and direct link.
For example, AI cloud is based on software and hardware systems such as open source framework and AI chip, which requires the coordination of industrial ecology and close cooperation between upstream and downstream of the ecological chain. It pays attention to the construction of an open and open source platform. The expert interaction platform of Xinzhiyuan Think tank is just such a platform. All have access to real-time information, effective tools and valuable talent information. This platform will realize the integration and interaction of AI across national boundaries, academia and upstream and downstream of the industrial chain.
As the technical enabler of small program, assistant Laiye CTO Hu Yichuan showed the AI technical strength of the new smart yuan small program and the possibility of future development from a technical perspective.
Computer vision was one of the hottest and most talked about AI technologies in 2017, and one of the most successful ones to land. In academia, from CVPR in summer to ICCV in autumn, computer vision witnessed the end of ImageNet competition, from visual perception to visual cognition, visual intelligence is also seeking a qualitative leap.
The 2017 World Artificial Intelligence Conference will be attended by computer vision experts. Jia jiayya, Distinguished scientist of Tencent youtu laboratory, hua xiansheng, vice president of iDST, Distinguished Engineer (VP) of alibaba, and sun jian, chief scientist of megvii Face++ and president of megvii research institute, introduced the most cutting-edge technology of computer vision at the conference.
Professor Jia Jia in the “new understanding of computer vision AI” speech, the advanced computer vision research results do a new division and classification, show you a colorful vision research dynamic picture scroll.
At ICCV2017, Tencent Youtu Lab led by Professor Jia Jiaya published a research — “AI that can remove makeup”. Professor Jia Jiaya also introduced this technology in detail on the scene. There are a lot of facial beautification apps on the market. The popularity of these applications, the Internet portrait a lot of people do not match the real person. Tencent Youtu, in collaboration with the Chinese University of Hong Kong, has come up with an algorithm for image blind restoration, which is used to restore beautified portraits to real ones. They propose a new deep network structure, component regression network, for blind restoration of beautified images. The network structure can better map the beautified image to the original image even without knowing the specific parameters of the beautified system.
Hua Xiansheng was just elected chairman of ACM MM 2020. In his speech, he introduced the computer vision technology in the urban brain of Alibaba ET, and answered whether the AI technology and computing ability have the ability to analyze the data of the whole city. In particular, how to achieve city-wide, comprehensive, real-time analysis, decision-making, search, optimization, mining, forecasting and so on.
In his speech, Sun Jian introduced that the improvement of AlphaGo Zero mainly has two core elements, one is heuristic search, the other is deep residual neural network, and the two have achieved a perfect combination. Among them, the idea of heuristic search is very simple, is designed for the problem of an advanced customized monte Carlo number search algorithm; The deep residual neural network greatly improves the efficiency of simple search algorithm.
VISION is VISION and VISION. In this forum themed with AI VISION, Alex Smola, director of AWS Machine Learning at Amazon, Homayoon Kazerooni, Director of Robotics and Ergonomics Laboratory at University of California, Berkeley, Shao Yang, chief strategy officer of Huawei Consumer Business, shared the topics of machine learning, exoskeleton computing intelligence and AI for mobile phone respectively, bringing the vision of the most cutting-edge technologies and applications of AI and computer vision.
Yang Jing, founder and CEO of Xinzhiyuan, moderated the AI VISION Technology Leaders Forum, Wang feiyue, vice chairman of the Chinese association of automation, song jiqiang, president of Intel China research institute, zhang daijun, president of Samsung electronics China research institute, tang xing, CTO of iqiyi, jia jiayya, outstanding scientist of Tencent youtu laboratory, megvii Face++ chief scientist, sun jian, president of megvii research institute around the “AI technology trends: Deep learning and Computer vision applications. In 2017, the emergence of AlphaGo Zero has threatened the importance of “big data”. Deep learning pioneers represented by Geffrey Hinton are also actively exploring new deep learning methods or looking for new algorithms to replace deep learning. In the future, data and algorithms in AI will become more complex, with more creative and efficient approaches. (Please pay attention to new Zhiyuan wechat public account for detailed reports)
Ten of the world’s chip leaders discuss the future of computing, marking the launch of Google’S TPU chip
In 2017, in the call of “Moore’s Law comes to an end”, the industry is also constantly advancing the exploration of new computing forms and computing methods. Supercomputing, quantum computing, neuromorphic computing chips… Keep making breakthroughs.
AI World 2017: Hu Lejun, Vice President of Inspur Group, Chris Rowen, IEEE Fellow, Wang Zai, Vice President of Cambrian Technology, Zhan Ketuan, CEO of Bitmain, Shi Yaoyun, Chief Scientist of Ali Cloud Quantum Technology, Xie Yuan, Professor of University of California, Santa Barbara, Yu Kai, founder and CEO of Horizon, Lu Yutong, director of Guangzhou National Supercomputing Center and deputy chief designer of Tianhe-2, and other nearly 10 global leaders in AI chips, computer architecture, quantum computing and supercomputing appeared on stage to discuss the future of computing.
On the AI Cloud forum, Mr. Janketuan, CEO of Bitmain, released the company’s latest AI chip and related products: Sophon BM1680, a tensor computing processor for deep learning, is suitable for prediction and training of ARTIFICIAL neural networks such as CNN/RNN/DNN, as well as deep learning accelerator block SC1 and intelligent video analysis server SS1.
Bitmain is believed to be the world’s most valuable Bitcoin company, and it is also known as the world’s largest blockchain cloud computing platform. Sophon BM1680 is another dedicated tensor processor in the world after Google TPU. The BM1680 core uses the improved Systolic architecture technology, which is similar to the Google TPU architecture.
China ARTIFICIAL Intelligence Industry Development Index was officially released by China Sounvalley at the conference: In 2017, China artificial intelligence Industry Development Index was 75, with an increase of 44.23% compared with 2016 and double compared with 2015 (an increase of 102.70%), showing a rapid growth trend.
On the whole, the development of Artificial intelligence industry in China presents four characteristics: first, all indicators are coordinated and the overall development tends to be balanced; Second, the development environment is rapidly optimized, and the basic guarantee needs to be improved. Third, the scale of the industry is growing rapidly, and the innovation capacity needs to be strengthened. Fourth, the integration and penetration of steady improvement, industry application potential is huge.
AI World 2017 AI Academy Awards ceremony held at the National Convention Center of China on Monday evening. The final award list of the Top10 AI Figures of the Year, Top10 AI superstar enterprises, Top10 AI Innovative Enterprises, Top10 AI innovative products and Top10 AI venture capital institutions will be officially released.
In September 2017, AI WORLD 2017 launched the “AI Oscars” Top 10 selection campaign, which has aroused strong response from the industry. The winners were selected by more than 300 new intelligence experts and 300,000 readers. In the vote count, the weight of the expert vote is 55 percent, the weight of the reader vote is 45 percent. After candidate nomination, expert voting, readers voting, statistics, expert evaluation, the AI Oscar winners list:
In the great revolution with technology as the core driving force, Chinese leaders in the field of AI have become the mainstay, empowering the industry and climbing to the academic peak. Chen tianshi, hu yu, hua xiansheng, huang renxun, huang xuedong, li feifei, ma huateng, lu qi, ng enda and zhou zhihua are the Top10 winners of the 2017 AI awards.
In 2017, tech giants continued to open AI technology platforms, open source deep learning frameworks, build AI cloud to empower small and medium-sized enterprises, and promote the historical process of AI democratization. In the context of the introduction of China’s new generation of ARTIFICIAL intelligence and the government’s decision to make AI a national policy, a number of enterprise giants have made an overall layout of AI with the determination of All In AI, and deepened the exploration of intelligence + In vertical fields. After 60 years of ups and downs, ARTIFICIAL intelligence has entered the “first year of application”, and AI giant companies are undoubtedly the leaders and backbone of this profound industrial transformation. The Top 10 companies are Google, Alibaba, Baidu, IFlytek, Nvidia, Huawei, JD.com, Facebook, Apple and Toutiao.
2017 is known as the “first year of application” of ARTIFICIAL intelligence. A large number of start-ups applied computer vision, voice recognition and other technologies to a vertical scene, helping China Intelligence + in autonomous driving, security, intelligent medical care, consumer electronics and other fields, making the ARTIFICIAL intelligence industry present a thriving scene. While All in AI, a technology giant, is making a comprehensive layout, new star is constantly expanding the space for survival and development with its unique innovation advantages and shining brightly. New wisdom yuan “AI Oscar” nova enterprises Top 10 are: Cambrian technology, bitcontinent, horizon technology, kuang kuang technology Face++, cloud zhisheng, ROOBO, yu potential technology, assistant laiye, sensetime technology, go out ask.
At present, artificial intelligence has become the object of each big venture capital organization. The power of capital has rapidly extended AI from the laboratory to the industry, driving emerging technologies to unlock commercial value in application scenarios. Venture capital institutions also become the touchstone of the core technology and business model of start-up companies. Excellent venture capital institutions not only have strong capital, but also have unique vision and profound industry resources. New Zhiyuan “AI Oscar” venture capital Top10 are: Ali Capital, Sequoia Capital, Tencent Investment, Baidu Capital, Mingshi Capital, IDG Capital, Hillhouse Zhicheng ARTIFICIAL Intelligence Industry Fund, Zhenfund, Lanchi Venture Capital, Jingdong Finance.
The year 2017 is considered by the industry to be the “first year of application” of ARTIFICIAL intelligence. Computer vision, speech recognition, natural language processing and other technologies are more widely and deeply applied in many vertical fields such as autonomous driving, intelligent medical care, smart home, retail, logistics and so on, realizing the landing of products, releasing value in application scenarios and promoting the process of “China Smart plus”. The Top10 innovative products of “AI Oscar” of xinzhiyuan are APOLLO, DuerOS, baidu knowledge atlas, didi brain, iflyxiao translator, yunzhisheng AI core, Tencent miying, ali unmanned convenience store, yu shi panda car, ding dong speaker.
conclusion
Xinzhiyuan gives full play to the platform trinity operation mode, and makes use of the three platform resources of Xinzhiyuan ARTIFICIAL intelligence social information platform, expert think tank platform and industrial fund to successfully build this conference into the most representative AI industry event in 2017.
The conference consists of five major forums: AI Era, technology Main forum AI Vision, three Industry conferences AI Connect, AI Cloud and AI Industry, and five disruptive dialogues: AI World, ARTIFICIAL Intelligence Shakes the Future, AI World Technology Leader Forum, AI Cloud Technology Leader Forum, AI World Investment Leader Forum, AI World Industrial Application Forum, It involves basic AI technologies such as deep learning, computer vision, AI chips, robots and AI chips, as well as AI applications such as intelligent terminals, unmanned driving and intelligent medical treatment. More forum content will be released on AI_era, please look forward to it.
In October 2016, The Chinese Association of Automation and New Intelligence successfully hosted the first AI World 2016 World Artificial Intelligence Conference. Zheng Nanning, academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, delivered a speech. Yang Jing, founder of New Intelligence, released the “China Artificial Intelligence Industry Development Report”, and the former chairman of AAAI and other academic leaders of artificial intelligence industry participated in the event. Xian ‘er robot Monk, Dayou robot and Xdog also come to help.
In the future, based on a series of online and offline activities such as new Zhiyuan wechat public account, new Zhiyuan mini program “V Enjoy circle”, New Zhiyuan wechat Group, New Zhiyuan 100 people Meeting, New Zhiyuan AI Top Technology Summit, New Zhiyuan AI World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Xinzhiyuan will work with the industry, academia and other social circles to build a platform of AI new vientiane, China’s intelligence + industrial service, enabling the AI era.
The original post was published on November 8, 2017
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Xinzhiyuan launched the million-level AI think tank information interactive platform, and the TOP10 awards list of AI world conference 2017 was released