In response to the development of artificial intelligence in China, Zhang Daijun put forward that 'Do not be quick success, do technology, do industries are gradual, in due time, do not overdraft AI'
By 2030, the competitiveness of China's artificial intelligence industry has reached the international advanced level, and the scale of artificial intelligence core industry has exceeded 1 trillion yuan, driving the scale of relevant industries to exceed 10 trillion yuan.
'Now it's not good to talk about cell phones without AI.' "At a recent AIWorld2017 World Congress on Artificial Intelligence, ZhangDijun, dean of Samsung Electronics China Research Institute, said with a smile.
With the development of artificial intelligence technology, some mobile phone giants have launched intelligent mobile phones with built-in artificial intelligence technologies. Huawei released the world's first AI mobile phone chip Kirin 970, and Apple also equipped the iPhoneX with the AI chip 'A11 Biological Neural Network Engine' .
Samsung in the second and third quarters this year, although the performance hit a new high, but in the field of artificial intelligence is more low-key.
In the current stage of artificial intelligence development, Zhang Daijun believes that the AI technology must be combined with the specific application scenarios, the scene has the means to achieve.For the development of artificial intelligence in China, he proposed 'do not instant success, technology, industry are step by step , It works, do not overdraw AI '.
AI development should be combined with specific applications
Although the Note7 explosion, 'Samsung Prince' Li is in jail, the impact of the resignation of vice chairman and chief executive officer Wunuang has not receded, but this year, due to the strong growth of semiconductor business, Samsung Electronics performance continuously high. , Samsung's consolidated revenue of semiconductor business reached 19.91 trillion won (about 118 billion yuan), accounting for Samsung's quarter revenue of more than 30%; operating profit of 9.96 trillion won (about 59 billion yuan), contribution Samsung's quarter operating profit of nearly 70%.
In the rival Apple, Huawei have introduced AI chips, Google and Intel co-operation in the development of AI chips, Samsung seems to be on the AI chip research and development slow half a beat.
The first financial reporter interviewed Zhang Daijun on related issues, he believes that artificial intelligence is the most important thing to have a scene, there are scenes to achieve means. 'AI has technology, but how to enable users to feel the real artificial intelligence scene, and Is a just-needed, high-frequency scene, this is the most important issue, not the chip. 'He compared the specific application scenarios for the disease, AI technology is the cure for the disease,' we have medicine, medicine to cure what disease?'
Zhang Daijun said that Samsung has all kinds of chips such as computing chips and communication chips, but if there is only a chip and no scene, what can be done is still limited. How to combine with existing mobile Internet products or hardware products is very important for consumers use.
Currently in the field of mobile phones, there are many ways for AI technology to fall into place, including face recognition and iris recognition, and some also solve the problem of album and big data through computer vision. Because different enterprises and industries have different emphases to solve the problem of artificial intelligence The point of view, the entrance is not the same. Zhang Daijun told reporters: 'To solve the industry pain points, just need, services and scenarios, these problems are not resolved, that is, show technology.'
How to get AI into mobile phone industry has become a hot topic in the industry. Zhang Daijun said: 'Maybe in previous years, we say artificial intelligence, AlphaGo this story, or talk about B2B industry services and products', but this year, whether it is Apple, Google or Huawei Hope that the artificial intelligence into the phone, 'talk about the phone does not talk about AI seems not very good.'
On the issue of how to combine AI and mobile phones, Samsung believes that based on the AI technology, it is necessary to make the mobile hardware and software deeply integrated to provide a better user experience, not only to download or simply integrate the AI technology as an APP, : 'Whether 2C or 2B, we must make the AI and industry applications, the depth of hardware integration.'
In May of this year, Samsung equipped GalaxyS8 with its self-developed artificial intelligence platform 'Bixby' and started offering 'BixbyVoice' service.In the developer conference held in San Francisco in October, Samsung upgraded its intelligent voice platform and introduced Bixby2. 0 version, but also to the developers open software development kit (SDK) Bixby2.0 will be used in a variety of devices, including Samsung's smart TV and smart refrigerator.
In China, Samsung officially launched Bixby Voice Assistant to China's beta-qualified Samsung GalaxyS8 / S8 + and GalaxyNote8 users on Nov. 8, allowing Chinese users to talk to Bixby in Chinese for voice assistance.Bixby can use voice features to unlock the phone , Send text messages, find music and pictures, etc. Zhang Daijun also showcased a Bixby function to CBN reporter, under the voice commands of "send my penultimate photo to my friend circle" and "red envelope" More accurately open the corresponding software features. Zhang Daijun said, 'much more fun than Siri'.
However, once the context is more complicated, Bixby is a little harder to recognize.By placing food in front of the camera and sending a 'Look at this amount of money' voice command, Bixby can turn on the camera for a physical scan and search on Taobao, Limited to the impact of light, the final search results have some errors.
Zhang Daijun told First Financial said: Wherever you can touch your hands, you want to be able to manipulate the hardware through speech recognition and natural language understanding.
Do not worry AI shortage of talent
In this era of artificial intelligence, many domestic and foreign enterprises regard artificial intelligence as an important force for the next revolution, but the top talents in this field are in a scarce state, especially in China, there are fewer colleges and universities offering artificial intelligence courses, and the teaching system Just started, the number and quality of talent supply can not keep up with market demand.
However, Samsung is not worried about the shortage of AI talent.Zhang Dai-Jun said that with many domestic enterprises to dig mature talent is different, Samsung is more consideration is to cooperate with colleges and universities to develop their own talents, 'we have our own talent system to Recruitment of outstanding students, and then train themselves. "Zhang Daijun disclosed that Samsung every year from Tsinghua University, Peking University, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and major universities in the recruitment of AI talent computer department, 'how many years after the training of these talents is the top talent.'
For example, he said, Samsung Electronics China Research Institute first artificial intelligence experts to join the Institute 15 years ago, these AI experts just entered the technical reserve is done, and then do the corresponding research work, now do Is the product
'You have the level to train people, like Microsoft, to contribute talent outside, rarely dig someone else; if you do not have the technical reserves, you have to dig someone.' Zhang Daijun said with a smile.
Of course, in addition to their own training, Samsung is also actively seeking talents in the industry, 'the more people the better, but still have their own hematopoietic ability. Young people are very creative, and soon these people will make a great contribution to us '.
Do not overdraft AI in advance
Since 2010, China has witnessed a rapid development in the field of AI and a lot of money is flowing to AI. China has set a goal of artificial intelligence development in the Notice on the Development Plan of New Generation of Artificial Intelligence. By 2030, the competitiveness of China's artificial intelligence industry will reach the international Leading level, the core scale of artificial intelligence industry surpassed 1 trillion yuan, driving over 10 trillion yuan of related industries.
November 8, Tencent released the "Internet Technology Innovation White Paper 2017" shows that as of June 2017, China's total number of artificial intelligence enterprises ranked second in the world, accounting for 23% of the world total; the cumulative financing has risen to 63.5 billion yuan, Accounting for 33.18% of the total global financing.
Both the policy and the funds have given China strong support for the development of the artificial intelligence industry, but Zhang Dai-jun believes that the development of AI can not be impetuous. Do not make quick success and do technology, and industries are gradual and easy way out of the equation. That the combination of artificial intelligence applications and training habits of users need time, many things can not rely entirely on technology, but a gradual process.
For the future development of AI, he is very optimistic.On the one hand, AI technology in mobile phones is developing very rapidly.Zhang Daijun said that a few years ago, we are talking about fingerprinting, this year the wind has turned to 'brush face', so AI in 2C The development is very fast.
On the other hand, in the next 5 to 10 years, based on the understanding of natural language, AI technology will combine the typical life scene to realize IoT. Zhang Daijun said that talking about smart speakers and mobile phones at present is only an isolated device and will go in the future To all things interconnected.With the development of 5G technology, deep learning and all computing power, 'I believe artificial intelligence development in the next 5 to 10 years will make people look forward to it.'