"Is there anyone afraid of AI?" No one raised their hand at the AI Forum on the Boao Forum for Asia. This made the co-founder of aNewDomin.net, the American best-selling writer Gina Smith, a bit surprised. The audience seemed to be very calm about this issue.
AI has brought a lot of convenience to people's lives. At this year's Boao Forum for Asia, HKUST’s Chairman Liu Qingfeng took the company’s translator and showed off the skills of HKUST’s bilingual on-site shorthand with a live large screen.
Speaking of artificial intelligence landing, no one will feel beyond reach.
Fear because of not understanding
The fear of AI was originally due to the lack of understanding. AI to replace the artificial will lead to changes in social structure once worried about the visionary, but history has proved that the Lourdes movement can not block the progress of history, and the calculator does not replace the actuary .
The word 'AI' can be misleading. Artificial intelligence is big data, but not the intelligence of the people we talk about. It's like this person knows everything. No one can know everything. Take a simple example. Some people know The insider news can make a lot of money, but this person can't be said to be smart. Maybe he's a criminal. ' Microsoft global senior vice president, Hong Xiaowen, head of Microsoft Research Asia.
Artificial intelligence is a black box for most people because it involves big data that many people can't embrace. 'Don't be afraid of AI, don't be afraid of computers. We have a head, we have a soul, AI is only one part, it can't be Compared to. TSMC CEO Liu Deyin said.
Zhu Guang, the senior vice president of Baidu, boldly predicted that in the future, more and more companies will pay attention to AI just as they did 10 years ago and 20 years ago. They also attach importance to AI, and there will also be some platform companies appearing. They are dedicated to all walks of life. The basic platform technologies that provide artificial intelligence provide them with better tools, better computing power, and better algorithms to help them transform the artificial intelligence in this industry. 'For example, Baidu, we have opened voice, images, video Processing. A lot of data processing capabilities have been opened to developers, and now we have 500,000 developers based on Baidu's self-development capabilities to innovate. For the next five to ten years, every industry is in-depth and Artificial intelligence technology combination. '
Compared to simple fears, Liu Deyin raised the issue that privacy and ethics may be more worthy of concern. 'We also worry about privacy issues. We need more data, and we also solve problems through smart data. We can't put all of these. All human voices are collected, this is a privacy violation. We can come to realize artificial intelligence in the cloud, so that we can improve the performance of our artificial intelligence on the privacy side. ' SHIMEunSoo, senior vice president of Samsung Electronics said.
Liu Qingfeng provided translation solutions as an example. According to him, the company now has more than 4 billion voice recognitions. Half of them are stand-alone versions that can be identified without networking. This is to consider privacy and the network is not Good situation. 'Algorithms can also be continuously optimized. Many times can be operated and used on the chip. We feel that there is plenty of room for optimization in AI's algorithms, especially deep learning. The optimization, the combination of cloud and offline in the future is a trend. The user wants the best effect and everyone together to progress to the cloud, to self-learning on the local.
'We are working hard. In fact, AI has two very good applications in the short term. It is a stand-alone application that does not depend on the cloud, such as on a mobile phone, or an app that launches many AI functions on the terminal. The second is no one. Driving, although there are still problems, there are restrictions. ' SHIMEunSoo said.
Human-machine cooperation is the mainstream of the future
If the development of AI is not completely replacing human beings, it must become a good helper for human beings. The decision to truly determine the speed of AI deployment is to find a solution to brain and artificial intelligence cooperation.
'Different languages, different cultures, many translations may not come out, but the translation will continue to improve. A lot of translation work can be done by the machine, we do not need to spend time on things that can be done by the machine There is no need to feel that AI will rush to work. The problem is how people work together with artificial intelligence.' Liu Deyin said.
'We know how to use these machines to help us in our work. ' Hong Xiaowen uses translation as an example to point out that people and machine translations are not the same way. Compared to machine translations, people will use their own understanding of paragraphs. After the translation is summed up, sometimes it may be only one phrase, or it may be translated into a paragraph. Sometimes when he plays with the CEO translation, the speech to the CEO is 'spoiled' and the CEO feels very surprised.' Did I say you first translated?'
There is no doubt that AI has the potential to become an expert in different fields. 'People are not experts in all fields, but we can solve many problems.' Hong Xiaowen said.
Liu Qingfeng further pointed out that the change of the world requires three elements: the first is the breakthrough of the algorithm, the deeper learning is related to the breakthrough of the algorithm, the second is the training data, and the third is polished by experts.
The embodiment of human-computer cooperation will first appear in the use of mobile terminals, because this is the largest popular smart terminal product. Liu Deyin mentioned that mobile phones sell 1.8 billion units a year. All applications are expected to operate on mobile phones. The application is good enough and can be promoted in a year. So smart phones are the best verification for any new ideas including AI. We hope that developers can develop some killer applications on mobile phones. This is the best application of AI in our lives. Ways and Ways. '
'In the future everyone should have an artificial intelligence assistant to help you live more easily and help your life be more interesting. I believe that artificial intelligence will create a truly beautiful world.' Liu Qingfeng said.
Zhu Guang also has confidence in the application of AI in the future. 'We can have more time, explore for a limited time in life, do what we want to do more, and the quality of life will also be due to the improvement of artificial intelligence technology. Get a brand new upgrade. '