Sogou is a frequent force voice artificial intelligence

Recently, at the 4th World Internet Conference, Sogou brought a lip recognition machine - when facing the camera, the system can "read" the inaudible voice by analyzing the lip movement, that is, only the mouth does not speak. The machine knows what you want to say.

Figure: Not afraid of Google and Baidu Sogou AI intelligent voice push lip recognition machine

Coupled with Sogou's simultaneous interpretation at the 2016 World Internet Conference, this indicates that Sogou will focus on improving language processing skills. This has also become a key step in its move to a broader range of artificial intelligence applications, even if it faces a strong US rival in the field, Google.

It is reported that a year ago, the University of Oxford artificial intelligence laboratory scientists, Google DeepMind team jointly developed the English lip reading system LipNet.

To let Sogou know you better.

On the evening of December 4th, as a family member with a search and input method as its main business, Sogou CEO Wang Xiaochuan responded to the question of why he frequently used voice artificial intelligence.

Wang Xiaochuan said that Sogou has two core products, one is search engine and the other is input method. However, with the development of society, people use Internet habits, and now machine translation will become more useful. Voice artificial intelligence is searching. The aspect is imaginative.

"Many people now think that voice search is convenient enough, but it is not smart enough." Wang Xiaochuan said, for example, if you search, the search engine gives you answers that are similar or the same, just a bunch of links, but really powerful. It is to give you an 'answer' that understands you better. ”

"This 'answer' is different from the ordinary search. It comes from the ability of the machine to produce reading in natural language, which is finer and more granular. This is also the direction of Sogou AI's development." Wang Xiaochuan said.

He pointed out that "the application of artificial intelligence technology will solve the bottleneck of the connection in the Internet era, from 'resolving the flow and asymmetry of information' to 'helping users to make judgments', providing more opportunities for human development." Wang Xiaochuan said In this direction, the core of Sogou doing AI is voice, and then use it to assist in search and input methods. "We are now advancing and achieving certain results, such as lip-translation machines; we are also focusing on brainwave technology."

Divorce counseling will be the primary issue for Sogou search legal consulting business

Sogou is also upgrading its simultaneous interpretation system to add "emotion" to the sound output of the translation. According to the report, Sogou's research on language processing has been supported by a large number of Chinese characters. According to the company's data, users create an average of more than 300 million voice inputs per day.

Health care and legal counseling are two new areas of Sogou's voice-activated enquiry service. Currently, there is no specific timetable for applying for commercialization in each area.

“We are convinced that the future machine will help humans make decisions, and I hope to see the day when interactive search results become advisory. Sogou is still working hard to improve the search results for medical and legal advice, from providing information. To provide advice, and finally consult." It said that divorce counseling is the primary issue of legal search for Sogou, followed by property disputes and accident claims.

“Not bad money, but also more advantageous than the competition”

In the interview, Wang Xiaochuan said, "The above areas belong to the extended service of the search business. One day they may grow into a user group, but we are not eager to make money from it. The development of artificial intelligence is a 'marathon'." The company's prospectus, search engine and related advertising revenue accounted for nearly 90% of Sogou's revenue.

In addition to relying on the two big trees of Tencent and Sohu, in November this year, Sogou listed 585 million US dollars. Although the stock price was once in a downturn after Sogou's listing, Wang Xiaochuan said that he has long-term confidence in Sogou's stock price. "I don't care about this decline, because in the less than one month after Sogou's listing, US investors did not have enough information to fully Learn about our business operations."

Sogou's search and input method has a natural advantage in the application of AI, and it has great potential in commercialization. For Baidu's competition on AI, he believes that Sogou has three advantages: First, competitors do not do well enough; Second, there are some cross-generation leading technologies; Third, match some of Sogou's core competencies, "Only these three When things are met at the same time, we can redefine the search and do better than the competition."

For the reserve of Sogou AI talents, Wang Xiaochuan said, "We will not rely on the money to declare how high we are, like some startups. Sogou is more of a business need. In addition, like Tsinghua University, Sogou also has Through this kind of operation, the joint lab can attract some young and energetic talents to join."

Wang Xiaochuan said that he is very confident in the field of highly competitive artificial intelligence. "Compared with competitors, Sogou only has one tenth or less of them, but the actual application innovation breakthrough is more. We see competition. The opponents announce new strategies every year, but I feel that there is nothing to scare you into a strategic direction every year, and the strategic direction of Sogou is very clear."

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