September 17, the 2018 World AI Congress opened in Shanghai, the General Assembly by the National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Industry and Information technology, national Internet Information Office, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Institute of Engineering, Shanghai Municipal People's government jointly organized, the theme of the "New era of artificial intelligence".
In the morning, the founder of Xiaomi Group (01810.HK), Chairman and CEO Lei June, spoke at the Summit forum. Lei June first spoke of the milestone in the history of artificial intelligence (AI)-the Alpha Dog defeating a human player. The public understands that AI has defeated the human master. For my Computer science students and go enthusiasts, not exactly. We used to think that it was impossible to beat go in 100 years and the AI won before 2.5. This is because technology has created a huge disruption and breakthrough, not only the reason for computational power, the most important is the breakthrough of the algorithm, so that the AI into a large-scale practical stage. It is a major breakthrough in human society.
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Lei June says that humans have entered the age of artificial intelligence, and no matter where you go, all the Giants are talking about artificial intelligence. For Xiaomi, Lei June said, ' after deep thinking, there's no choice but to drill AI into an important strategy for Xiaomi. ' Our advantage is that there is a huge amount of equipment, huge amounts of data, we have a knowledge of the AI age, our breakthrough is the IoT.
AI and IoT, the Internet of things, make a small contribution to the development of the company and the AI in the world.
Lei June says Xiaomi now has the world's largest consumer-grade IoT platform, and the role of AI Assistant is critical. Lei June: No matter where we go, all the Giants are talking about artificial intelligence.