recently, At the Tencent Forum of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Vice President of Tencent Group, Tencent Research Institute President Si Xiao officially announced "Tencent Artificial Intelligence White Paper: Ubiquitous Intelligence" (Hereinafter referred to as the White Paper) .

As Tencent's first comprehensive introduction AI, White Paper on Tencent's Artificial Intelligence Layout and Thinking, The book starts from a macro background, technical research, landing application, future economy, Five dimensions of institutional guarantee, Outlined it "Ubiquitous Intelligence" The panoramic view.

Si Xiao pointed out in his speech that: "future, Intelligent technology will infiltrate into daily life, Ubiquitous state, It can be said that it is very important, Because everything depends on it; It can also be said that it is unremarkable, Because intelligent technology has become intangible, Integrated into all things. Tencent is striving towards such a goal. "

"Ubiquitous Intelligence" , This is Tencent's description of the current and future development status of artificial intelligence in this white paper. In simpler terms, Artificial intelligence technology will widely penetrate into the construction of new infrastructure, And it has gained increasingly diverse application scenarios and a larger audience.

in "Ubiquitous Intelligence" behind, Artificial intelligence is entering the industry, A new development period of supply and demand integration. for this, The white paper specifically addresses AI The Development Process and Trends of Basic Technologies, Under the background of the epidemic AI The landing application, AI A specialized analysis was conducted on the performance and corresponding institutional guarantees that have spurred the emergence of an innovative economy.

Artificial intelligence enters the stage of ubiquitous intelligence

In the past decade or so, Artificial intelligence has ushered in rapid development, The earliest academic exploration quickly shifted towards application implementation, Artificial intelligence has become the digitalization of enterprises, New initiative of industrial intelligence.

The white paper believes that, In the near future after the pandemic, This will be an important period for global economic reconstruction, It is also likely to be an important period of social transformation. This has opened up a new window of opportunity and rich practical fields for the development of artificial intelligence, one "Ubiquitous Intelligence" The world is accelerating to become a reality.

picture: Ubiquitous intelligent panoramic image source: Tencent Research Institute

The background of this viewpoint, It is currently AI And industrial Internet.

The white paper states that, The policy support for artificial intelligence at the national level is pressing the fast forward button for industrial development. self 2015 Since the official mention of artificial intelligence in the national industrial policy in, The policy initially focused on system design, Technical research and development, as well as standard setting, Developed to the point of AI include, incorporate, integrate "New Infrastructure" category. so far, Related policies are 5 I have experienced it within the year 4 The development and upgrading of each stage, To further accelerate the advancement of our country "Ubiquitous Intelligence" Provided extremely favorable conditions and opportunities.

at the same time, The white paper mentions, The accelerated development of ubiquitous intelligence, It also depends on the resource endowment possessed by various aspects of market demand and supply. nowadays, Artificial intelligence is entering a development period of supply and demand integration and innovation.

From the supply side perspective, Thanks to the digital foundation and ecological environment formed by the great development of the Internet in recent years, The intelligent industry ecosystem is constantly enriching, Focus on value areas, Competing for the first mover advantage. Especially in technology, data, capital, Five aspects of market and platform.

For example, in terms of technology, AI Technology has moved from laboratories to large-scale commercial applications; In terms of data, Data officially becomes a national factor of production, data+Intelligent dual wheel drive, Accelerating the intelligentization of various industries; At the capital level, The investment community's perception of artificial intelligence is beginning to return to rationality, From simply chasing hot topics, Shift towards a greater emphasis on core technological capabilities and application potential; In terms of market, The demand side that has taken the lead in transitioning from intelligence "Data accumulation—model optimization—Application upgrade" The iterative optimization loop, So as to make more use of it AI, Make it easier for both supply and demand sides to form stability, Long term cooperative relationship, Both parties are more likely to build a first mover advantage, The basic establishment of a positive cycle of supply and demand mutual promotion; In terms of platform, AI Open platform model becomes industry consensus, The platform based layout of large factories is becoming an efficient technology supply model, Promoting the entire process AI Ecological development and prosperity.

Meanwhile, The demand side is integrating with the supply side mentioned above. Affected by the dual traction of long-term economic transformation pressure and recent anti epidemic recovery, The transformation demand triggered by the transformation of demographic dividend into innovation dividend, Large scale and diverse application demands, as well as emerging demands arising from black swan events such as the pandemic, More requirements are being put forward for the implementation of artificial intelligence technology and industrialization, It has also created more opportunities for the development of artificial intelligence "Potential Needs" The new scene, promote "intelligence+" go deeper and deeper.

Basic foundation technology, Application and Technology Spiral Up

AI of "pansophism " , Thanks to the maturity of basic application technology, The wave of machine learning and deep learning artificial intelligence as the theme, Considered one of the most significant technological and social changes facing humanity today.

this time, The white paper focuses on machine learning, computer vision, The driving force behind the development of four mature technologies, namely intelligent speech and natural language processing, Frontier trends and future development directions.

The white paper states that, In recent years, The driving force behind the rapid development of these artificial intelligence technology markets, Also following the driving logic of supply and demand integration.

For example, in the field of computer vision, With the continuous maturity of technology in recent years, The Chinese computer vision market is experiencing rapid growth, Thanks to the exponential growth of massive video data processing demands in the era of video explosion, And the demand for technical accuracy in key landing scenarios, More precise processing has become a necessary path to promote the development of computer vision.

Like Tencent Miying AI Artificial Intelligence with Tencent Cloud Technology CT Equipment during the COVID-19, Deploying in multiple hospitals in Hubei province, Assist medical staff in diagnosis and treatment. After the patient completes CT after inspection, The device can be completed in a few seconds AI recognize, Provide auxiliary diagnostic reference for doctors within one minute, Improved diagnostic efficiency by several times, Effectively alleviated the severe situation of severe shortage of medical resources in the early stage of the epidemic.

For example, speech technology, which has a market size second only to visual technology, With the paradigm shift of human-computer interaction mode, And the increase of Internet applications, The demand for voice technology related businesses will further increase, The reverse promotion effect of business on technology will be more pronounced.

corresponding, The progress and future direction of these technologies are closely related to the coordinated development of supply and demand.

currently, Tencent in Natural Language Processing, Following academic research-industrial application-Promote ecological construction in three aspects. The topics of academic research cover semantic understanding, text generation, Intelligent Dialogue, Machine translation and other fields, Most scientific research problems stem from practical problems in various business scenarios, After the models and strategies for scientific research output are launched, they can further optimize and enhance business effectiveness, Achieve a virtuous cycle. Finally, by promoting database and model sharing in resource transfer, Build a certain platform foundation and scale advantage.

And for the future development direction, White Paper Prediction, Its development will mainly focus on breaking through quality, Scene and expression limitations.

The landing application has made significant progress, The epidemic has become AI touchstone

The sudden COVID-19, Has caused a huge impact on global economic development, All kinds of production and business activities were temporarily paused. The dual needs of fighting against the epidemic and reviving the economy, Actively guiding the digital economy led by artificial intelligence to play a pivotal role, Continuously unleashing application value.

The white paper has been selected from it AI+medical, AI+city, AI+manufacture/Service and AI+The four important aspects of digital content, to verify AI performance, Explore its development prospects.

For example, in the medical field, On the one hand, there is a shortage and uneven distribution of medical resources on the supply side, Shortage of high-quality doctors, On the other hand, there is an aging population, The increase in demand caused by the outbreak of the epidemic and other factors, Industry pain points are becoming increasingly apparent. during the pandemic, AI Ground image recognition, Medical screening, Remote consultation and other scenarios, To some extent, alleviate pain points, Improved the operational efficiency of the medical system. future, AI It will also be applied to the construction of public health emergency systems, Personal Health Management, drug development, Scenarios such as intelligent drug sales and medical insurance services.

also, AI Applied in the field of smart cities, Bring infrastructure upgrades, Gradually integrating into the urban governance system; AI+Digital content blooms more, Becoming an important productive force empowering the content industry; AI Applied in the fields of manufacturing and services, In response to the demand for safe resumption of work and production, A batch of artificial intelligence solutions have emerged, such as multi person rapid temperature measurement. Faced with the pain point of a large number of factory workers being unable to resume work on time, Intelligent detection devices relying on visual recognition show off their skills, The future new human-machine collaboration mode is expected to further form, The corresponding intelligent transformation has become the development direction for manufacturing and service industries to improve their risk resistance capabilities.

In the field of epidemic prevention and control, To assist in community epidemic prevention and control, Avoid cross infection, Tencent launches health declaration, Human and vehicle management, Temperature screening and intelligent isolation measures "epidemic" function, Implemented in many residential areas across the country. Early stage of the epidemic, Tencent Youtu's vehicle recognition technology can automatically identify and register foreign vehicles, At the same time, remind Hubei license plate vehicles entering and leaving the community, And for Hubei license plates, But vehicles that have not been to Hubei recently have not been whitelisted. These seemingly small details contain a lot of details in urban governance, Tencent also proposed future cities last year WeCity The Development Blueprint, There is a lot of application space here.

In the manufacturing sector, Tencent launches one-stop industrial solution based on intelligent titanium core functions AI platform solution TI-Insight, Applied to defect detection, Video detection, Application scenarios of image vision such as quality monitoring, Support users from 0 to 1 Quickly build models, 1 to N Rapid iterative training model.

in the long run, digitalization, networked, Intelligent applications enable the Chinese economy, Society becomes more resilient. This trait not only shines and heats up during the epidemic, but also, It will also gradually transform artificial intelligence into something like the internet, Basic service infrastructure similar to electricity, ubiquitous, All inclusive, Truly permeating into all aspects of the social economy.

Artificial intelligence drives the future economy

After this epidemic, AI Press the accelerator button. Preliminary attempts have been made during this epidemic "Unmanned economy" , It is also expected to continue to penetrate after the epidemic. The integration and innovation level of artificial intelligence with various industries and fields of the economy and society continues to improve, In the process of overlapping development of technology and business, It is also constantly giving birth to new business models, new scene, New integration, New interactions and new goals.

For example, the impact of the epidemic "Home life" , Let it be "non-contact" The core service model has become a new economic growth point. Unmanned Retail, unattended, The demand for non-contact services in industries such as logistics and transportation has surged, promote "retail+AI" Will connect single point intelligent scenarios, Through intelligent material allocation, Intelligent marketing recommendation, Intelligent delivery realizes the entire industry chain "non-contact" configuration, Ultimately giving birth to a new retail format.

The white paper also mentions, Under the background of the epidemic, Some new scenarios are emerging. For example, the emerging scene of autonomous driving. domestically, Affected by contactless services and accelerated commercialization of autonomous driving, A group of manufacturers are starting to test the application of autonomous driving technology, Autonomous vehicle delivery and material distribution, logistics, Urban disinfection and sterilization operations have begun to play a role. at the same time, Construction of simulation platform, The support of new infrastructure has created more opportunities for the development of autonomous driving.

And accompanied by artificial intelligence, 5G, The integration and development of new technologies such as virtual reality, The new generation of media will be driven by artificial intelligence, Artificial intelligence may reshape the field of digital content. among which, Can achieve face swapping, face synthesis, speech synthesis, video generation, Various forms of applications such as digital virtual humans "deep synthesis" technology, As a product of the development of artificial intelligence technology to a certain stage, We will usher in the era of commercialization. With the continuous reduction of technological barriers, Innovative application forms will continue to emerge.

at the same time, The white paper also lists new interactions represented by multimodal virtual humans and AIforFEW New goals at the core.

in fact, "Ubiquitous Intelligence" Ultimately, it still boils down to being more inclusive, Targeting more responsible development, New business and new economy will be gifts attached to the path of technological development.

finally, The white paper also points out at the end, The Healthy and Sustainable Development of Future Artificial Intelligence, Reasonable institutional construction and good governance are also needed to ensure. For example, at the governance level, By building a multi-level governance system, To adapt to the rapid development and iteration of artificial intelligence, Increasingly complex features; In legislationIn terms of regulation, Fully consider international competition, From the perspective of the economic and social value of technology, etc, Promote pilot testing; Simultaneously considering multiple stakeholders' interests, Promote interdisciplinary participation and international cooperation in artificial intelligence governance.