Although AI technology has become a hot technology until now, in fact, the concept of AI was proposed more than 60 years ago, and it was almost stopped because of the secular misjudgment. Then why is it going to break out this year?
In 1956, a group of young and far-sighted scientists put forward the term “AIâ€. In the following decades, the exploration of AI technology remained at the level of academic research, and several times it was caught in question. Stagnant. The acceptance of AI as a general-purpose technology for different industries in the world is nearly two years. In particular, in 2017, a new round of AI rejuvenation led by realistic business needs is making AI the focus of attention of all.
Kevin Kelly predicted that AI will become a smart service for everyone to buy in the future. At present, although the integration of AI and business is still in its infancy, the exploration of AI technology by smart terminal equipment manufacturers is gradually fulfilling this prediction. The most typical is the smart phone industry. Huawei has released the AI ​​chip Kirin 970 and the first AI mobile phone Mate10. Samsung is increasing its investment in AI chips. Apple has clearly stated that its products will serve as the main platform for AI in the future. Driven by increasingly fierce commercial competition, the AI ​​industry has ushered in a new round of revival.
As Chris Hammond, a computer scientist in the United States, said, “In the past, AI technology did not meet the requirements, not because of inadequate design, but because of the lack of infrastructure and environment needed for technological development.†2017 for the development of AI Is a special year, the two elements that determine the level of AI intelligence - data and algorithms - have achieved breakthrough progress during the year, coupled with the promotion of large-scale commercial demand and capital power, creating a perfect for AI development. Good environment.
Behind every AI system is a huge database support. As the basis of AI technology, data has entered a large-scale outbreak in the past few years with the popularity of terminal devices such as smartphones. According to GSMA research data, the number of mobile users worldwide has reached 5 billion in 2017, and each device generates an average of 1 GB of data per day. In addition, the speed of the Internet of Things industry is equally alarming. Gartner's research data shows that the number of IoT devices in the world reached 8.4 billion in 2017, and is expected to grow to 20.4 billion in 2020. In view of the large-scale commercial application of the Internet of Things industry in 2017, the industry regards 2017 as the real first year of the Internet of Things.
It should be said that 2017 is a node for the massive outbreak of data, which provides an indispensable foundation for the development of AI technology. In addition to data, machine algorithms also had an amazing breakthrough in 2017. Google’s AI system AlphaGo defeated human Go champion Ke Jie in May 2017 as a landmark event. Compared with the previous game-type AI, AlphaGo adopts a new algorithm, such as computer game technology Monte Carlo tree search, deep neural network composed of strategy network and evaluation network, and machine independent learning and reinforcement learning ability. . The new algorithm brings breakthroughs in the development of AI technology.
The integration of AI and business has become unprecedented in 2017. Global technology companies have consistently adopted AI as the next step, and products using AI technology have gradually been introduced to the market. At the same time, AI also evoked the enthusiasm of the capital market, and the injection of a large amount of capital finally made 2017 a tipping point for the new round of AI revival.
The smartphone industry drives a new round of AI revivalIn essence, AI is a simulation of the human brain and the way of thinking. The ultimate goal of human exploration of AI is to make AI serve and benefit humanity. So first of all, AI should be enough to understand humans, provided that human data is maximized through different sensing devices. From a global perspective, the most popular personal terminal devices with the highest frequency of use and the largest amount of data generated are smart phones. Therefore, as the smart phone industry further increases its investment in AI technology, AI is expected to usher in further development.
In fact, smartphone manufacturers started to lay out AI as early as ten years ago, and can be divided into three main stages according to different exploration directions:
First, the application of AI technology at the software level. Apple acquired Siri for $200 million in 2007, and applied it to the iPhone 4S for the first time in 2011 as a voice assistant. Samsung followed the voice software S on the flagship model. Voice. At present, similar voice assistants are widely used in the flagship models of major mobile phone brands. Although strictly speaking, voice assistants are mainly used for voice and semantic recognition technology, they cannot be called real AI, but they are smart phones. An important exploration of AI by vendors;
Second, the integration of AI technology and mobile phone systems. In 2016, smartphone manufacturers further explored AI. The glory Magic released by glory for the first time integrated AI technology with mobile phone systems, and was regarded as the first AI mobile phone by the industry. The Magic Live system pre-judges the user's needs and gives reasonable suggestions through the perception of the usage environment and life scenes. In some specific scenarios, the system will autonomously issue instructions, such as when the user enters a poorly lit environment. The phone automatically turns on the flashlight to illuminate the user. From the impact on the mobile phone industry, the release of Glory Magic is clearly a landmark event in the evolution of smartphones to AI phones;
Third, the full integration of software, systems, hardware and AI technology. In July 2017, Huawei's consumer business CEO Yu Chengdong revealed that Huawei will release the world's first artificial intelligence chip, and said that "AI is not just a voice assistant." In September, Huawei's first AI chip, the Kirin 970, was developed on schedule and applied to the flagship Huawei Mate 10. AI chip + Android 8.0 customized new intelligent operating system EMUI8.0 + voice assistant and other software, together constitute this true sense of AI mobile phone - Huawei Mate 10, which is by far the most closely integrated AI and mobile phones Try it once.
In addition to Huawei, Samsung and Apple's two major smartphone manufacturers also attach great importance to AI technology. Samsung has continuously increased its investment in AI. Last year, it invested in AI startup Vicarious. Recently, it invested in a Chinese AI startup company, Shen Jian Technology. The outside world agreed that Samsung is preparing for the launch of AI chips. Apple executives said recently that they will use their mobile devices as an important platform for AI in the future. Without any surprise, the upcoming iPhone X will become the first show of Apple AI technology.
Recently, there was news that the upcoming Glory V10 will be equipped with the AI ​​chip Kirin 970 after Huawei Mate 10, and the release time of the Glory V10 will be October 5, which is only two separate from the official release date of the iPhone X. day. This reflects from the side that the competition of mobile phone manufacturers around AI technology is gradually increasing. Obviously, for the development of AI technology, commercial competition is a good thing, and AI will usher in a revival in technology competition.
AI technology goes out of the concept stage and tends to be inclusiveThree months ago, Gartner, which focused on information technology research and analysis, released the 2017 emerging technology maturity curve, and Gartner believes that artificial intelligence will become ubiquitous in the next 10 years. This prediction is basically consistent with Kevin Kelly's judgment. In the future, artificial intelligence is expected to become a kind of intelligent service that can be purchased and move towards the consumer market.
According to the current development trend, it is expected that the global smartphone market is expected to complete the transition from smart phones to AI mobile phones in the next three years. In other words, AI mobile phones will become a mobile terminal device. In addition to the smartphone market, many industries have also accelerated the convergence of AI technology. For example, in the field of financial investment, artificial intelligence has shown signs of replacing human expert consultants. Retail giants such as Wal-Mart also began to put AI robots on the store, providing services such as shopping guides. Baidu's AI system secret has also cooperated with KFC restaurants to provide smart food and other services.
Not long ago, Huawei’s rotating CEO Xu Zhijun said in a speech that artificial intelligence is difficult to be like a human being in the next 20 years, but it can achieve the performance of people and even people in a narrow business. In fact, AI has surpassed humans in some areas. For example, in theory, driverless cars using AI technology are safer than human driving. In the financial industry, for example, Royal Bank of Scotland has announced the replacement of 500 traditional financial planners with smart investment. It is foreseeable that AI will fully penetrate into all aspects of human life in the future.
Prattification and practicalization are two important directions for the future development of AI. As a general-purpose technology, AI is playing a role in more and more social fields. The market dominated by real business needs has allowed AI to start out of academic research and become a benefiting Pratt & Whitney technology. In the history of AI development, 2017 is a year that should be remembered.
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