AI combined with scenarios will ignite an innovation revolution. In which direction will AI develop?

Across the ocean, Amazon continues to gain market share with smart home products developed based on its AI voice assistant Alexa. Google has basically integrated all of its AI capabilities into its products, releasing several AI products every year. In China, Baidu has released four smart products in less than a year. It is not difficult to find that AI has become a veritable "trend", and developing products equipped with AI technology and forming an ecological linkage have become the priority of the development strategies of major technology giants.

In the future, what direction will AI develop in? Satya Nadella, the current CEO of Microsoft, believes that people should view AI as intelligence used to enhance human capabilities. Whether it is the field of autonomous driving, smart home, or smart security, AI needs to assume the function of "center and brain" to truly have "intelligence quotient".

AI combined with scenarios ignites innovation revolution

American philosopher John Searle divides artificial intelligence into "weak artificial intelligence" and "strong artificial intelligence". Although weak artificial intelligence is an artificial intelligence that is good at a single aspect and has no consciousness, there is still huge room for AI to play in combination with traditional industries and specific scenarios. Ma Shaoping, vice president of the China Artificial Intelligence Society and professor of Tsinghua University, believes that although AI development is still in its early stages, combining it with traditional industries in specific scenarios can unleash unimaginable explosive power.

At present, numerous technology companies have successively applied AI technologies such as language and image understanding, machine vision, neural networks, intelligent control, robotics, genetic programming, etc. to many scenarios in multiple vertical fields such as education, medical care, driverless driving, e-commerce retail, finance, and home furnishing. When AI is combined with traditional industries, an efficiency revolution far beyond our imagination will break out. In fact, only by integrating with traditional industries can subversive applications and innovations be brought about.

It can be said that AI is producing a "chemical reaction" with various industries. In the future, artificial intelligence will empower traditional industries and realize the spirit of all things. A single AI technology may not pass the Turing test, and its IQ cannot be compared with that of a 6-year-old child. Therefore, only by applying AI to appropriate scenarios can it trigger an unprecedented innovation revolution.

AI upgrades active assistant to ignite efficiency revolution

In the industrial age, machines were just passive tools for people. The emergence of smart products marks the beginning of the transformation of machines from passive tools to active assistants. This not only frees "machines" from the limitations of requiring human intervention, but also allows people to greatly surpass the former in terms of work efficiency. Behind this transformation is the redefinition and upgrading of traditional industries, which is quietly happening in many fields.

AI+ products have brought about a change of 1+1>2. The intelligent "recording pen" can not only transcribe the speech content into text in real time in the Chinese context, but also support real-time translation between Chinese and English in foreign language contexts. In fact, the small "smart recording pen" is just a small case of AI being integrated into traditional industry applications. Similar cases are constantly occurring in various industries. An AI+-driven technological revolution is quietly erupting.

AI Warring States Period under the War of Kings

The "2018-2019 China Artificial Intelligence Computing Power Development Assessment Report" released by IDC shows that by 2022, China's artificial intelligence market investment will exceed 10 billion US dollars, and the compound growth rate in the next five years will exceed 59%, forming a new industrial ecosystem with a scale of 100 billion yuan.

More and more companies are joining the AI ​​war. Following giants such as Google, Baidu, Huawei, and Hikvision, other domestic industry giants such as Suning, Johnson & Johnson, and Ping An have also announced their entry into the AI ​​field. There are not only technology giants and start-ups that have carefully laid out their plans in this field, but also chip manufacturers and Internet companies that are eyeing them covetously. It can be said that there is a huge competition.

The AI ​​craze has made human and technical resources more and more expensive. The rising costs have made the industry more and more crowded, and elimination has accelerated. For enterprises, researching AI technology requires a lot of capital investment and human support from the algorithm team. The high R&D costs will make the situation of enterprises with weak competitiveness and weak financial strength more difficult.

In fact, judging from the current situation, the "Warring States Period" in this field will continue to exist for a long time. The major technology giants are now developing products mostly to compete for entry points, and are unable to create users' "hard needs". From the perspective of user experience and perception, there are few services that can be bound to the product, in-depth communication cannot be achieved, and truly high-quality user experience cannot be achieved. These are the problems faced by AI giants at this stage.