Artificial intelligence contends, vertical field is the next hope

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become the hottest topic, and this topic has reached a household name, but the technology in this area has always been said to be relished, and it does not make people feel tired. Artificial intelligence is now widely used in various fields and is now looking for new breakthroughs. Shen Jin, global vice president of the Qualcomm Group and general manager of the China Division of the Investment Department, said in an interview with the First Financial News that the next investment opportunities for artificial intelligence are in vertical areas, such as agriculture.

He also believes that the platform-level opportunities for artificial intelligence are gone, and the next step in artificial intelligence is at the application level. The AI ​​application "is not burnt money can be burned out", the key is to break through the technical difficulties and create a good application.

Shen Jin revealed that Qualcomm has made a series of investments in the field of artificial intelligence. The companies and projects involved in the investment include: the brain group of the United States, which has spent seven years, starting with the researcher's brain, providing software, applying to robots, achieving mobility and navigation; and American face recognition. Company Clarifai; China Intelligent Voice Company Yun Zhisheng and so on.

In vertical areas, such as agriculture, Qualcomm has invested in artificial intelligence companies in Israel, and its application has been applied to five farms for pest and disease production forecasting; Qualcomm's investment in China, Okemei, mainly for rural big data analysis Provide models for disease prevention and control of diseases such as pests and diseases, and chickens and cattle.

In November, Qualcomm will also announce new investment projects. It is through the chip, let the artificial intelligence engine promote the interconnection of all things, and accelerate the application of artificial intelligence technology on the sensor.

What stage is artificial intelligence now developing? Shen Jin believes that artificial intelligence has surpassed human ability in the field of speech and vision. The ability of machine speech recognition has surpassed people. Of course, in the case of quiet environment and voice standards, there are many intelligent voice companies in China, such as Keda Xunfei, Baidu, Sogou and so on. The machine has surpassed people in the field of visual recognition. Of course, the current computing power is rough. Previously calculated with 6 layers of nerves, 100 layers of nerves in 2015, 1000 layers of nerves in 2016, and the human brain has only six layers. Therefore, through violent calculations, the transcendence of human ability is realized in these two fields.

In terms of application, one is security and the other is online authentication. These have good application scenarios in China. There are many security cameras in China, and the security market is 5 to 10 times that of the United States, supporting some face recognition companies, such as Face++. China's financial Internet industry is also developing rapidly. Some P2P Internet finance companies have developed 100 million users a year. It has no offline stores and can only be realized through online authentication and image recognition. Therefore, the Chinese market has the conditions to support the development of artificial intelligence.

At present, the artificial intelligence industry is developing healthily, but the next step is more difficult and requires more computing power and more data.

Nowadays, there are hundreds of artificial intelligence contending, and Internet giants such as BAT are investing heavily. How much space does the startup have?

Shen Jin believes that mobile phones will be the largest application platform for artificial intelligence. From the beginning of this year, 8.5 billion smart phones will be introduced to the market. This year, mobile phones began to have the performance of artificial intelligence, such as the background blur of OP11's R11, Huawei used artificial intelligence to power and memory management. Next, there will be a variety of camera functions, such as 360-degree photography, video editing, and personal assistant functions such as managing bills and writing diaries. There are many opportunities for entrepreneurship and innovation to apply artificial intelligence technology to mobile phones.

Secondly, there are also entrepreneurial opportunities on various devices. The artificial intelligence of large companies is in the cloud, they have more data and there is a supercomputer center. However, on the device side, the BAT whip is beyond the reach. For example, using artificial intelligence as a fire warning product, monitoring the electrical appliances in the building, and alerting once overloaded, such products have a wide range of application scenarios and rigid requirements.

“The opportunities for artificial intelligence platform level are no longer available. The only opportunities are vertical areas such as agricultural artificial intelligence, medical artificial intelligence, industrial artificial intelligence, etc. BAT has face, search and other information, but no crops, vegetable leaves, pigs are called. Information such as sound, you can use these industry information to make an early warning, is a good opportunity to start a business."

The arrival of the 5G era has also provided better conditions for the application of artificial intelligence technology. Shen Jin said that 5G has three application scenarios, one is that the bandwidth is wider, 10 times now, the video transmission will be smoother; the second is the massive Internet of Things application, regardless of air conditioner, light bulb, street light or electricity meter, can access the object Networking, 5G is the acceleration of all things; third is the key application, 5G is more reliable, such as smart driving, driverless.

As an investor, Shen Jin said that because the platform-level opportunities for artificial intelligence are gone, the next step of artificial intelligence is at the application level, so “not burning money can be burned out”, the key is to break through technical difficulties and create good applications. Program.

Du Lan, senior vice president of Keda Xunfei, also believes that the development of the artificial intelligence industry focuses on applications. The "Artificial Intelligence + Age" application is the last word.

Artificial intelligence has experienced three stages of development: computational intelligence, perceptual intelligence, and cognitive intelligence. The example of the Alpha dog defeating the Go Champion shows that the computing intelligence of the machine has surpassed human beings; the sensible intelligence that can be heard and can be seen, the machine also partially transcends human beings, like the translation of speech into words, the Xunfei input method The accuracy rate has reached 98%. But in terms of cognitive intelligence, there is still a big gap between machines and people, and it is also the direction of artificial intelligence efforts.

Du Lan said that there are two major industrial development opportunities in the field of artificial intelligence. In the next three to five years, the era of human-computer interaction, which is dominated by voice and keyboard touch, is coming. Second, within five to ten years, artificial intelligence will be like water. Entering every industry like electricity, profoundly changing the world.

Artificial intelligence + era, application is the last word. The AI ​​strategy of Keda Xunfei is “platform + track”, which has already occupied 80% of the Chinese artificial intelligence voice market. As a platform, it focuses on developing “tracks” such as medical, education, smart city, public security, and intelligent customer service. )Applications.

“The focus of the next application is on the financial industry,” Duran said in an exclusive interview with the first financial reporter. The use of artificial intelligence in the financial field is to change the user interface through voice interaction. Second, intelligent customer service can achieve cost reduction and efficiency. For example, Ping An's voice navigation, the key is the understanding of natural language; the third is operational intelligence, through the "AI + big data" means of investment speculation, can replace the ordinary analyst.

This year, Amazon's smart speaker Echo sparked a wave of conversational artificial intelligence. At almost every consumer electronics conference, the concept of artificial intelligence was mentioned. Like Changhong, an upgraded version of artificial intelligence TV was released on the 12th. Does this have a bubble component?

In Duran's view, the next three or five years will be the outbreak of conversational artificial intelligence, and it will take some time to accumulate. At present, the intelligent voice function of consumer electronic products is mainly "sound control", and the key is related to content and service. "There are three key points. First, voice interaction is the means; second, more content and services are needed; third, the hardware experience is better."

Keda Xunfei has already launched a smart speaker, which has a leading position in the domestic market, which is higher than the total share of the second to ninth. But Duran admits that the sales of smart speakers still do not exceed 10 million. threshold. One of the influencing factors is that the user's habits have not yet been developed. This requires technical breakthroughs and perfect services to make the hardware have a better experience.

Wang Pei, an associate professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at Temple University in the United States, believes that artificial intelligence and human brain are still far apart, especially in terms of flexibility and creativity. So the direction of research is not to let computers work like human brains, but Becoming to do some practical things, in some respects with the human brain, to solve specific problems one by one.

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