[NetEase Smart News, August 29] Gao Feng Consulting's founder and CEO, Tse Zuijun, and his senior consultant, Jackie 燱ang, stated that China is expected to dominate the field of artificial intelligence, but this needs to change the existing thinking model. Support groundbreaking research, not just follow existing technologies.
In the past few years, China first entered the artificial intelligence (AI) research, and the goal is to become the leader in this game-changing technology. According to the "Economist" data, from 2012 to 2016, China's artificial intelligence companies obtained $2.6 billion in financing, while US counterparts received $17.9 billion, but this situation is rapidly changing. China, which was previously regarded as a backward technology development by the Western world, is now seeing the development of artificial intelligence as an opportunity to surpass its foreign counterparts.
In 2015, at least one of the top academic papers related to artificial intelligence published in more than 40% of the world is Chinese researchers. From 2010 to 2014, the number of patent applications based on artificial intelligence in China increased by 186%, a substantial increase from the previous five years. In addition, in the past two years, in the ImageNet Large Visual Recognition Challenge (an influential artificial intelligence computer vision contest), all the best performing teams were Chinese, and half of the teams were Chinese. .
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In response, China announced that by 2030, Chinese companies will become global leaders in artificial intelligence technology. This is closely related to China's latest five-year plan, which plans scientific and technological research as a strategic focus.
Policies such as “Made in China 2025â€, “Three-year Guide to the Internet+Artificial Intelligence Programâ€, and “New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan†are all aimed at promoting the development of artificial intelligence technology in China.
Many provinces and cities in China are also providing preferential policies and generous financial incentives for artificial intelligence startups. For example, Shenyang has established a 20 billion yuan investment fund, focusing on the development of robots.
These preferential policies have stimulated the innovation of Chinese SMEs and Internet giants. Leading companies such as Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent have shunned new startups such as technology, carbon cloud intelligence, out-of-the-way interrogation, Shang Tang Technology, and “unicorns†like Didi and Xiaomi, all investing or trying Artificial intelligence technology.
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For example, Baidu has developed an advanced neural network-based machine translation system that exceeds the human voice recognition accuracy rate. It also introduced an open source platform for autopilot solutions, the Apollo Project, to accelerate the development of the auto-driving automotive industry. In response, its competitor Tencent also set up its own artificial intelligence laboratory, gathered 50 world-class scientists, researchers and experts, focusing on "content artificial intelligence, social artificial intelligence and game artificial intelligence." It is reported that Tencent's "FineArt" artificial intelligence software defeated the top ranked Japanese Go player Li Liao at the beginning of this year.
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In 2017, in the list of the 50 smartest companies in the MIT Technology Review, Chinese startups ranked 11th in technology and specialized in computer vision technology. Its face recognition product, Face++, has so far identified and distinguished 100 million faces. HKUST is the global leader in intelligent voice and natural language processing. Its market value has reached approximately US$12 billion. Its voice recognition technology can distinguish Chinese dialects.
It takes more time to study the basic theory behind artificial intelligence, and the risk is much greater.
Research on artificial intelligence in academia has spread from a handful of elite universities to universities across China. Chinese scholars have established a strong research community so that they can make full use of artificial intelligence resources in both Chinese and English. A large number of Chinese science and engineering graduates are flocking to this industry. With a large number of Internet and smart phone users, China has a wealth of data that provides valuable training data sets for artificial intelligence learning algorithms.
The visits to Chinese citizens’ behavioral patterns and large datasets in daily life have enabled AI researchers to conduct large-scale research and experiments, which are much faster and more intense than foreign counterparts. China has the ability to become a leader in the field of artificial intelligence. But doing so will require changing the way key stakeholders think - including government, academia and business.
So far, groundbreaking research is still mainly conducted in the West, mainly because of the science and infrastructure behind artificial intelligence. On the other hand, Chinese scholars tend to study new applications of existing technologies. This is mainly because of the high returns of the Chinese government on the results of existing research; the basic scientific research behind artificial intelligence needs more time and the risk is much greater.
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Chinese companies are very good at quickly introducing new products and new features to the market because they are very good at taking advantage of newly discovered opportunities. Like academic circles, Chinese companies rely mainly on new applications of existing technologies rather than creating new ones. From the current situation, there is little motivation for artificial intelligence such as Google’s Alphaç‡o to break through basic scientific research.
China needs a fundamental change before it can truly become a leader in the field of artificial intelligence. We need to pay more attention to the science behind the development of technology than to emphasize new applications. This can be a challenge because the government needs to reconsider the way in which appropriations and research proposals are evaluated, as well as the criteria for assessing the impact of research projects.
Chinese companies are adventurous in identifying and “jumping†into new opportunities, but under the “moon landing†model of Western companies such as Microsoft or Google, they are still underdeveloped. In addition, geopolitical issues are also at risk and may cut off access to foreign technologies and patents in the future, thereby hindering China's ability to transform rapidly.
According to a Pentagon report, although the Chinese have invested more than US$700 million in artificial intelligence startups in the United States over the past six years, the US Department of Defense considers this to be a potential threat to national security and hopes that the government will ban such investment. If foreign researchers think that their research will be used for "power" purposes, then they may refuse to cooperate with Chinese companies and scholars.
The advantage of the future company will be data
To achieve the goal of becoming a global leader in artificial intelligence by 2030, China needs to take at least two necessary steps. First, it should redraft its incentive policies and encourage local companies and scholars to conduct research on new artificial intelligence technologies. Second, the government and the business community should continue to nurture the domestic academic community, making it the cornerstone of global artificial intelligence research.
Wu Enda, a leader in the field of artificial intelligence research in the United States, once said that artificial intelligence will become "new electricity" - it will not only change one industry but all industries.
In fact, artificial intelligence has been widely used in different fields, creating an unprecedented opportunity to “activate new businessâ€. Resources in the era of artificial intelligence are becoming more and more open. The competitive advantage of an enterprise may be broken overnight by the cross-dissemination of knowledge and ideas from different industries.
The strengths of the company in the future will be data, and the ability to obtain predictability for the future from this new "treasure mine", not just after the fact.
Can China occupy a global leading position in the field of artificial intelligence? Even if it can do this, it may take some time. However, just as anything related to technological innovation today, it is unwise to exclude China.
According to reports, Xie Zuyi is the founder and chief executive officer of Gaofeng Consulting Co., a global strategic and management consulting company in the Greater China Region. He is also the author of "China's Subversive". Jackie燱ang is a senior advisor to the company. (From: scmp translation: Netease see smart editor robot review: Wu Man)
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