In 2017, artificial intelligence set off an unprecedented wave of concern.
In July, the State Council issued the "Notice on the Development Plan of a New Generation of Artificial Intelligence"; in December, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the "Three-year Action Plan for Promoting the Development of a New Generation of Artificial Intelligence Industry (2018-2020 ) ".
This is also the same breakthrough that has taken place for IFT, which occupies more than 70% of the Chinese voice market. In August, the world record for the global pulmonary nodule test was refreshed, with a reading accuracy of 94.1%. Month, its flagship product, the Artificial Intelligence Robotics Assistant, became the first robot in the world to pass the National Physician Qualification Test.
In November, the Ministry of Science and Technology announced the first batch of 4 national artificial intelligence open and innovative platforms, relying on the IDF Intelligent Voice Platform; among them, in December, the Ministry of Science and Technology issued a notice to approve the relying on the National Taiwan University News flight cognitive intelligence key national experiments room.
During the first "Fortune" Global Forum in Guangzhou in early December, 21st Century Business Herald and other media interviewed Liu Qingfeng, chairman of iFLYTEK.
Liu Qingfeng told 21st Century Business Herald reporter that artificial intelligence will bring about two changes to human life. One is to change the way of human-computer interaction. The other is that the machine can make many outstanding human capabilities be copied and make mankind from simple labor In liberation, to engage in more valuable work.
In Liu Qingfeng's opinion, in the next 3-5 years, the industry pattern of artificial intelligence will be determined. Enterprises that are more open and pledged in the vertical field will be more likely to win the first chance.
IMC Chairman Liu Qingfeng
'Let humans stand on the shoulders of artificial intelligence'
"21st century": Many people are concerned about the impact of artificial intelligence on ordinary people, especially the possibility of artificial intelligence to replace human work, how do you think about this trend?
Liu Qingfeng : There are a lot of third-party analysis recently and we are very much in favor of it. For example, we can take 365 social sectors to analyze the areas where artificial intelligence may replace people. The highest replacement rates are mechanical, repetitive, such as customer service personnel, stenographers and bank tellers Jobs, in fact, humans do not like these jobs.
In addition, the same may need to be gradually phased out even if knowledge accumulation, learning and memory skills, and clear-cut logic are needed, as Goldman's counter traders shrank from 600 to 2, which is a real trend.
The final conclusion is: There are three types of jobs is very difficult to be replaced.The first is the need for communication, the so-called human wisdom Art, artificial intelligence is difficult to do in the short term; the second is the need to empathy, emotional , Such as professions like teachers, and the third category, which requires reasoning, creativity, and inspiration, so everyone needs to understand the development of artificial intelligence and try to get himself involved in the trend of human-computer interaction.
It should be noted that, even without artificial intelligence, the structure of labor will change continuously with the progress of society, just as the disappearance of a coachman.With the continuous improvement of citizens' educational level, the ability to grasp the Internet is getting stronger and stronger, Many traditional positions are replaced in line with the laws of social development.
However, because of the emergence of AI, the productivity of society as a whole has been raised unprecedentedly. The protection of basic living materials is not a problem. Even if people who are replaced by work do not suffer from hunger and will not be able to heal, the artificial intelligence will make The cost of seeing a doctor is greatly reduced, and it can send the best hospital doctors and best teachers to every family, of course, when a large amount of work has been replaced and new posts have not yet been created. The social security system for the general public Keep up.
In addition, AI will make pan-entertainment everywhere, to meet people's emotional and personal needs, so I think artificial intelligence is to make society better.
"21st century": Have you ever said that artificial intelligence needs to be understood from the empowerment industry to the empowerment of individuals? Will everyone need to become a 'technologist'? Will this create further 'information gaps?'
Liu Qingfeng : In May of this year, ISTF Alpha alpha artificial intelligence robot and Guangzhou genius youth group PK science knowledge, these gifted teenagers are selected from the popular science contest in Guangzhou, junior high school students, high school students each 3, the results of the Alpha egg to 90 Score 70 points to beat the talent boy.
After the end we tell you, do not panic, after the people with the machine PK these knowledge is not much sense, which is like human chess with the machine has no less significance, it should be people with a robot, to do the teacher and parents never Imagined things, reflecting the creative characteristics of people.
Our hope is that AI is shifting from empowerment to empowering individuals to make AI as easy as water and electricity.It is equipped with an artificial intelligence assistant today that can help you solve 5% of the work and reach it in half a year 20%, 50% in three years and 80% in five years. You only have to make decisions, ideas, and inspirational work before you can say that humans are standing on the shoulders of artificial intelligence.
So not everyone should become a technical expert, just like a mobile phone nowadays, there may be an artificial intelligence assistant in the future, as long as you can operate simply. And its shape is not necessarily hardware, it may be nowhere Not at all
With the help of artificial intelligence, it is possible to change the working system to 4 hours 8 hours a day, 5 days a week to 2 days so that human beings have more time to imagine the future and develop their ideas. This is the goal of ION.
'3-5 years, the pattern of artificial intelligence industry will establish'
"21st century": In addition to the national level, many cities also proposed the development plan of artificial intelligence. What is your opinion and suggestion for developing artificial intelligence with city as the main body?
Liu Qingfeng : Whether it is a city or a business, SWOT analysis (situational analysis) needs to be done, especially with its own resource endowments.
I think there are currently two types of success in this area, the first is innovation based on original technology, and of course, there are various applications and entrepreneurship around it.
The second is that artificial intelligence changes the world from a specific industry, such as the judiciary, which now uses artificial intelligence to adjudicate criminal cases, which can well prevent false and wrong cases, improve the efficiency of first-line judges and prosecutors If the city in a specific subdivision area has become a model for all of China and has attracted relevant enterprises to gather, it can go global to promote it. So the second logic is to focus on specific industries , Do the subdivision of the field leader.
This wave of artificial intelligence wave, I think 3 to 5 years, basically the pattern of various industries will be determined, who do more resolutely, who open the market more fully and better to the artificial intelligence industry and social development, convenience Enterprise services combined, who is more likely to have opportunities.
"21st century ": Any suggestions for AI entrepreneurs?
Liu Qingfeng : In this era, young people to start a business, artificial intelligence can provide greater opportunities.Why? Previously Windows platform or mobile phone system, in fact, are similar, so few giants, but in the era of artificial intelligence, everyone may have personality The demand of
For example, a family needs robotic nannies, but each family member has different looks and personality requirements, which gives greater scope to those entrepreneurs who have knowledge of a particular group of people. Is the basic needs of all people, the future is to meet the emotional needs of each individual and aesthetic taste, so there are great opportunities in the field of subdivision.
But entrepreneurs must not be the first day of ecological, platform, the first day is much higher than the first cut into the same as the tip, survive, and then step by step development, we are called 'top' and 'site' to be combined.
Itexamous 'platform + track' strategy
"21st Century": This year, ITP's IQ Assistant passed the Medical Certification Examination with a score of 96 points out of the pass line, but does the examination mean practical ability?
Liu Qingfeng: All the questions of the National Physician Qualification Examination are multiple choice questions, five options. The title tells you a detailed description of the symptoms of the patient, so the machine must first have reading comprehension, this ability we took in the international competition First, after understanding the symptoms, close logical reasoning is also needed to conclude that machine learning of medical textbooks, up-to-date medical papers, and the experience of many experts can only reach this level.
The biggest advantage of the machine is precisely that it is not high score low energy it is also no fatigue, mood swings, you can maintain consistency in many occasions, this is the biggest difference between the machine and people.
Of course, in the course of medical treatment, the machine will surely have some omissions, so now it is a man-machine coupling mode, and the machine needs somebody's signature after reading the disease. On the one hand, it prevents omissions. On the other hand, China's current law does not allow machines Give a doctor.
We are doing a very important thing in Guangzhou to be carried out immediately, first-line doctors after reading the disease, especially lung cancer, breast cancer and other diseases, the data sent to the background, the machine to do quality control.If the machine to find new problems, Doctors review again. Even in the top three hospitals, doctors can make omissions, often because there is not enough time, but the machines are very fast.
I think this belongs to a safe undercover protection, we do the first quality control, the second step to do auxiliary treatment, is probably the logic.
"21st century": In the open platform in this regard, IFT is how to consider?
Liu Qingfeng : We open up the core artificial intelligence technology, backstage support and cloud computing service platform supported by the bottom layer to entrepreneurs who can make their own products by utilizing the technology of IDF's speech synthesis and recognition, such as robot, smart home, education and social And other aspects of the startup company, the integration of our technology into the future, with the continuous improvement of technology, user-side functions also will be iterative.
Start-up companies to develop end users, if their own deployment of the server, you may not know how many users, the number of small, the future collapse of the system; the number of waste of funds. Itexamous is now a billion-level companies, almost zero-cost To provide a platform, this is our help to developers.
The development of artificial intelligence industry has three major elements: algorithm, data and industry experts, the three are indispensable, while the development of more meaningful products and applications require more developers to work together.
"21st century": Could you sketch out the general strategic plan for ISUTE next year?
Liu Qingfeng : In promoting the application of artificial intelligence, we will adhere to the strategic direction of "platform + track" and continue to cultivate applications in education, healthcare and urban industries.
As mentioned earlier, 'platform' refers to the core technology of artificial intelligence to open up for the entire industry to provide artificial intelligence capabilities, integration of background content and services, building a continuous closed-loop iteration of the ecological system. As of December this year, The cumulative number of terminals has reached 1.5 billion, the daily average number of interactions reached 4 billion, the number of entrepreneurial teams has reached 465,000.
'Track' refers to relying on the core technology of artificial intelligence together with application data, coupled with the expertise in various fields, to build the vertical entrance or the middle of the industry just the advantages and disadvantages and we believe that the current artificial intelligence experience three ups and downs It finally started to empower the world.