At the Boao Forum in 2018, artificial intelligence, 5G, smart driving and other cutting-edge technologies became the focus of the guests.
The development of new technologies has brought more opportunities and challenges to the industry. Health care, education, finance and other industries will usher in even greater innovations. Smart driving, new retailing and other new business forms are gradually gestating. At the same time, technological progress Double-edged swords also encourage humans to be vigilant about the risks involved.
What changes will science and technology bring, where does it go, and how should humans treat it? The guests of Boao brought these answers.
5G and AI that are reinventing life
From 2G, 3G to 4G, to today's hotly debated 5G, the rapid increase in the transmission speed of communication networks continues to refresh the experience of human Internet life. As a leader in the smart phone industry, Apple has accelerated the mobile Internet through the iPhone series. The coming, and for the upcoming 5G era, Apple's vice president, Greater China Managing Director Ge Yue believes that this may change the current pattern of smartphone-led.
Ge Yue said that 5G's big data throughput, extremely low latency and hardware interconnection will make AR and VR a reality, allowing remote control of medical equipment, real-time feedback of various data, and making more hardware products more intelligent. , Interconnection, all this will make the wearable device more and more fire.
Similar to Apple's vice president's attention to 5G technology, Vivo founder, president and CEO Shen Wei also expressed concern for 5G technology. At present, vivo's R&D of 5G is still focused on mobile phones. Shen Wei also stated that AI It will play a very important role in the future development of the mobile phone. In the future 5G era, the mobile phone will be more like a user's assistant and deal with the relationship between the user and the virtual world and the real world.
Shen Wei was not the only guest on the forum to mention artificial intelligence. In fact, artificial intelligence is the most talked about new technology direction at this year's Boao Forum. According to Baidu President Zhang Yaqin, the premise of developing artificial intelligence is to ensure that it can Serving humanity, serving the community.
Most of the guests recognized the great promotion of artificial intelligence on human society.
Zhang Yaqin believes that the rapid development of artificial intelligence has already and will continue to transform the search engine and Internet industry, and that finance, health care, education and other industries will soon be applied to machine learning and artificial intelligence. Nowadays, smart driving, new retail is very much concerned, and artificial Intelligence will certainly promote the development of these two industries, but it will take some time.
Shen Hui, the founder of Weimar Automobile, believes that automatic driving will be safer than human driving, but the current amount of data has not arrived yet. After the amount of data arrives, the machine will drive more safely than people drive.
Rugged progress: landing, regulatory dilemma
Focusing on AI artificial intelligence, big data, quantum computing, 5G and other advanced technologies, the booming smart cars, autopilot, health care, and smart communications industries have shown people a smarter, safer, and more fair world map. This road of uncertainty to human well-being also faces specific real-world concerns: How to land, how to deal with existing regulations, and how to deal with technological shocks will all become the focus of technology companies.
The smart manufacturing industry related to traditional manufacturing industry is particularly concerned about the technology. Chairman of Xiaopeng Automobile stated that in the future, the starting point for the establishment of businesses in the transportation sector such as automobiles, railways, and even space, including technology and policy, will center on the improvement of people’s travel radius. And unfolded.
He frankly stated that the underlying technology development of China's smart car market is still limited, and it needs to start from the bottom, and currently the relevant applications and manufacturing in China are rarely started from the bottom. He Xiaopeng believes that the current quality building is a foundation, and young people are smart cars. The expectation is actually two levels of requirements and underlying technology. This is the future to solve.
After the first step in the industry is resolved, how to deal with the existing regulation becomes the second threshold. The impact and game of new technology and existing order will determine the time distance between people and 'future life'.
In the future communications sub-forum, Apple's comparison with Huawei was put on the desktop. Asked about the potential difficulties in obtaining domestic 5G-related licenses, Ge Yue said that Apple's mobile phone is a global product. The thinking angle should be that it is produced in China. Parts come from Japan, South Korea and so on. 'Good technology can benefit the world, not only China, the US market.' Ge Yue thinks, we can think of 5G as a mini wifi, 5G is still difficult to use in mobile communications , need to cooperate according to 4G technology.
New Challenges: The Impact of Technology
When both 'landing' and 'regulatory' are broken, people embrace the 'future of life' and at the same time face the 'side effect' of the technology itself - replacing humans. The most immediate threat is the replacement of jobs.
In the future production forum, Mercan High Performance Materials Global Management Committee Allan GABOR gave a set of McKinsey data, 400-8 million people will lose jobs by 2030. It should be recognized that productivity is the world's The most important thing, whether it is pharmaceuticals, materials, or others, requires us to better educate workers so that they can harness these technologies.
Gree Electric Dong Mingzhu is not afraid that the development of artificial intelligence will pose a threat to human beings. She believes that in the process of transformation from artificial to intelligent, human beings are also undergoing changes and progress. Now Gree Electric Appliances is training more people. Wisdom, the use of human control machines, production efficiency has increased, the product is more accurate, the demand for the market can be better satisfied, 'So this time is coming not to say that we feel panic, but we should be more proud.'
In response, Yossi VARDI, an Israeli ICQ investor, expressed an overall optimism and supportive attitude. However, he also warned that while technology is continuously developing and progressing, society has become polarized and marginalized. In the process of developing science and technology, humans need to pay attention. Make technology more inclusive, involve everyone, and democratize innovation.
'I think the development of a new round of technology has two sides. We need to have a deeper understanding of human consciousness and human values and value systems. I hope that everyone will see that there are some potential problems and risks in utilizing new technologies. We need Every technology developer is responsible for this.