"Artificial Intelligence" enters the national strategic level. What is AI's most concerned about?

In the government work report Li Keqiang made on the morning of March 5, the term "artificial intelligence" first appeared. It appears in this passage:

“Accelerate the cultivation and growth of new industries. Fully implement the strategic emerging industries development plan, accelerate the research and development and transformation of new materials, artificial intelligence, integrated circuits, biopharmaceuticals, and fifth-generation mobile communications, and expand and strengthen industrial clusters. Support and guidance Share economic development, increase the efficiency of the use of social resources, and facilitate the people's lives."

Although it only appeared once, it signaled to the outside world that the technology of artificial intelligence began to be endorsed by the state. We can foresee that local governments, under the guidance of this “central spirit,” will invest a great deal of resources to establish local artificial intelligence platforms and companies. More traditional industry companies will also boldly embrace AI technology, and For AI, perhaps it will get more support and resources opportunities, or it may face more dangerous competition because of more influx of players.

Already, AI companies have gained a policy dividend. What do the parties say?

What has been determined so far is that at least five companies will directly benefit from this policy dividend.

As early as before the two sessions, on December 16, 2016, the National Development and Reform Commission issued the “Circular on Organizing and Implementing the New Generation of Information Infrastructure Construction Project and the “Internet Plus” Major Project in 2017”. Eight major items are proposed in this document. The "major projects" includes a "Public Service Platform for Artificial Intelligence Basic Resources". The original document is as follows:

“The basic service of artificial intelligence basic public service platform. Build a new type of ultra-large-scale computer cluster, face the voice, image, geography and other information, integrate audio, video, pictures, three-dimensional models, geographic information and other formats, and build an artificial intelligence foundation for industry-wide applications. Resource database supports intelligent analysis and processing in the cloud, automatic data labeling and intelligent classification, and can provide auxiliary analysis functions such as face recognition, text recognition, and online speech recognition, providing basic and public services for the development and construction of artificial intelligence ecosystems. .

Indicator requirements: (1) Platform data capacity not less than 5PB, forming no less than 5 million standardized data resources, forming no less than 5 million standardized data resources, based on image, voice applications, the daily average number of calls exceeds 1 Billion times. (2) Compile not less than 2 items of intelligent processing data labels, intelligent classification criteria, and build assessment evaluation platforms for resource storage. (3) The image recognition rate exceeds 93%, the text recognition rate (Chinese) reaches 90%, and the online speech recognition rate exceeds 95%. ”

According to the documents, each "significant project" can subordinate 8 projects, and the total investment of a single project is not less than 100 million yuan. After about three months of auditing, on February 27, 2017, the NDRC announced the list of selected projects. In the engineering category "Artificial Intelligence," we see the names of these five companies:

Beijing Baidu.com Technology Co., Ltd. Public Service Platform for Artificial Intelligence, Competent Department: Beijing Municipal Development and Reform Commission

HKUST Newsletter Co., Ltd. HKUST to fly artificial intelligence cloud service platform, competent department: Beijing Municipal Development and Reform Commission

Chongqing Zhongke Yun Cong Technology Co., Ltd. Artificial Intelligence Fundamental Resource Public Service Platform, Competent Department: Chongqing Municipal Development and Reform Commission

Shenzhen Tencent Computer Systems Co., Ltd. Artificial Intelligence Fundamental Resources Public Service Platform, Competent Department: Shenzhen Municipal Development and Reform Commission

Hangzhou Zhongsuo Anren Network Communication Co., Ltd. Artificial Intelligence Base Resource and Technology Open Platform for Third Party Social Services, Competent Department: China Electronic Information Industry Group Co., Ltd.

The AI's policy dividend, these five companies grabbed the first batch. We found that the project names Baidu, Tencent, and Cloud have undertaken are all "basic resource public service platforms for artificial intelligence." Does this mean that the three projects to be built are basically similar? In this regard, Yun Cong Technology CEO Zhou Hao said:

"All of the same type of projects, but the specific construction content has its own advantages. The cloud has four characteristics from the artificial resources basic public service platform: core technology traction (effective integration of scientists' intellectual resources), and easy-to-use intelligence services (for each The industry provides convenient and easy-to-use artificial intelligence services, public data security (providing intelligent analysis results, protection of raw data), and layout of key industries (deep service countries such as financial security, public safety and other key industries)."

Yun Cong Technology CEO Zhou Wei

Zhou Hao revealed to Lei Fengwang that for building such a platform, the cloud will focus on these areas:

"First, build an artificial intelligence basic resource technology cloud platform. This requires a capacity of 8PB, and the computer vision standardization data reaches a specified value (more than 50 million pieces).

Second, develop an artificial intelligence infrastructure resource public service application cloud platform. AI Foundation Fundamental Resources Public Service Application Cloud platform development and operation, and conduct research and development and demonstration of artificial intelligence applications in such industries as public security, financial services, smart manufacturing, public transportation, and public services. ”

The entire project will take about three years to complete.

HKUST News Chairman Liu Qingfeng

In an interview with the media, HKUST Chairman Liu Qingfeng stated:

“The government work report is by no means for a single company, but for the entire industry. Today, we also believe that as a company, China’s high-tech companies at the present stage, especially the leading companies in the industry, we It's not that how much the government gives me subsidies, but the government can push forward according to the overall planning of an industry... In accordance with some guidelines of the country, we also participate in relevant national projects to compete, for example, the National Development and Reform Commission. With regard to big data and artificial intelligence, among them, HKUST is flying, but we are the first in the expert review, and the subsidy received should also be the highest."

AI has become a national encouragement. What do startups think?

In addition to the existing Internet giants, established AI startups are also most likely to be the beneficiaries of this wave of dividends. Codelong Technology is one of them. Through this two meetings, the cooperation between the codelong technology and the "Guangming Daily" has increased a lot of exposure than usual. In the face of "artificial intelligence" has become a national encouragement, Code Dragon Technology CEO Huang Dinglong is very pleased, he told Lei Feng network:

“I myself am a member of the Shenzhen Municipal People’s Political Consultative Conference. As early as the Shenzhen CPPCC Conference in early 2015, I proposed and proposed a proposal for 'Artificial Intelligence - The Next Leading Innovation Outtake Opportunity'. I emphasized that this was a 'leadership' type of innovation. Opportunity, because I think that in many fields of science and technology, artificial intelligence is China's greatest opportunity to surpass the United States. Now that artificial intelligence has finally entered the work report of the Central Government, this will certainly contribute to the accelerated development of artificial intelligence in China."

Code Long Technology CEO Huang Dinglong

The direction of the country gave: encourage you! But next, we don't know what the details of the policy are. This is where AI companies are generally concerned.

Toptech CEO Li Mingqiang is also very concerned about the AI ​​becoming the topic of the two conferences. He hopes that the country will introduce more specific policies, including the opening and sharing of industry data, the designation of AI industry standards, tax incentives, and training of talents. He said:

“We hope that the country can introduce more specific policies to promote the development of the industry. For example, the national level can promote the opening and sharing of industry data, develop the application standard system and test methods for the AI ​​industry, and provide practical preferential policies for the AI ​​industry. Such as special fund support and tax relief; can open up the educational curriculum and social training system in the AI ​​era, to provide a steady stream of professionals for the AI ​​industry; can develop the social support and legal system of the AI ​​industry to help the products of some cutting-edge technologies land; It can promote the introduction of AI industry talents at the national level and help domestic AI companies attract key talents around the world."

Tupu Technology CEO Li Mingqiang

Huang Dinglong also holds a very similar point of view, he believes that the competition of artificial intelligence ultimately depends on two things: talent and data, so in his view, the policy of greatest concern is twofold: the introduction of training artificial intelligence talent, and to promote data open shared. The CTO of the codelong technology is American, so Huang Dinglong also hopes to attract more international talents with the support of the policy.

This coincides with the proposal of Xiao Jun CEO Lei Jun at the two sessions. In his proposal on artificial intelligence, Lei Jun specifically put forward five suggestions, one of which is to strengthen the training and introduction of artificial intelligence scientific research talents and technical talents.

“Talent” has always been a very important topic in the AI ​​field. As early as the end of 2016, Lei Fengwang (public number: Lei Fengnet) once reported that Li Deyi, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, proposed to upgrade intelligent science and technology to a first-level discipline. , and proposed a set of discipline construction programs, he said that "to promote this issue is not just a discipline construction, but also the artificial intelligence workers of the era mission. ”

Academician Li Deyi gave a speech

How do you see more players entering and competition intensifying?

AI has become a national encouragement item, which means that more players are flooding in and the competition is becoming more intense. Li Mingqiang does not seem to be worried about this. He believes that Tupu has accumulated a large amount of industry data, core technologies and outstanding talents, and its image recognition cloud services such as content review and picture value-added have been recognized by customers. More competition will bring more benefits.

“The achievements of Tupu have been achieved in the domestic fierce competition in the industry. So we do not worry about the intensification of competition. Instead, we believe that competition will make the entire industry quickly progress together. On the other hand, the intensification of competition means The influx of more talents and capital will provide more power and support for the ecological development of the entire AI industry."

In other words, even if it is AI start-up company, after all, it has taken the initiative. Huang Dinglong stood in the perspective of commercial applications to see the "more players" situation, because the ultimate commercial application of AI is definitely not only the internal affairs of the AI ​​industry.

"More players are good things to enter. Now that AI is not only technologically innovative, but also very important is technology landing and commercialization. How AI technology lands, we need not only AI industry people, we are also looking for all walks of life. Strategic partners to explore the technical landing and commercialization of AI."

Postscript: From the perspective of national strategy, “AI” entered the government work report for the first time. Many people think that this may mean that China has to “carry over” in the world's competition for technological power, and AI seems to be more optimistic. The state of mind, as Huang Dinglong puts it, “does not necessarily require a curve to overtake. It is better to point directly and fight speed, and we have to straighten to overtake.”

2017 will undoubtedly be the first year of policy dividends for artificial intelligence, but so far no more specific and detailed policies have been introduced. When we set our sights on domestic AI companies, we do not know the possible flow of this policy dividend. Moreover, from the list of “major projects” that the National Development and Reform Commission has drawn up, it is often AI companies that have been selected by the state to have strong capital and strength, which may result in a stronger and weaker weaker situation. For AI, who can seize the opportunity to catch up with the rapids, who would be overwhelmed by the surge in the tide, and everything is not fixed.

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