(Original title: Li Yanhong artificial intelligence cannot exceed human capabilities)
Li Yanhong, founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Baidu. Li Yanhong believes that AI will affect all aspects of human society, but it will never exceed human capabilities.
As the first domestic Internet company to deploy artificial intelligence (AI), Li Yanhong, founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Baidu, believes that AI development is a gradual process and is still in its infancy. Li Yanhong said that artificial intelligence can never surpass human capabilities, but when it is gradually approaching human capabilities, it can already be subverted in an industry and an industry.
AI development is a long process
Beijing News: More and more companies are beginning to lay out AI. Will they develop blowout?
Li Yanhong: (AI development) is definitely a long process, but more importantly, this is a big industry, AI will affect all aspects of human society. From an industry point of view, it can affect finance, automobiles, real estate, and electronic equipment. It can affect almost every industry that we can think of; from a different group, it can affect many consumers; from the corporate perspective It can also affect many businesses.
In almost every area, you can see many places that can be combined with AI. This is why when more and more people enter the AI ​​field, I do not feel threatened but feel excited. Because everyone is thinking about all kinds of things and inspiring each other, more and more innovations will eventually come out. We will eventually become a beneficiary.
Beijing News: Artificial intelligence has defeated humans in the chess world. Do you think that artificial intelligence and people in the future will be smarter?
Li Yanhong: Artificial intelligence can never exceed the capabilities of human beings, but when it is gradually approaching human capabilities, it can already be subverted in an industry and an industry. For example, like the application of face recognition, now you go to the airport, you have to go through several security checks, and you need to compare your ID card. If the face recognition technology is mature, in the future, when you arrive at the airport, you should walk past it. The camera directly recognizes that you have already bought tickets. You should board the plane now. You do not need to go together to check. Speech recognition, natural language understanding, user portraits, etc., can all change many areas. Open deep learning platform will promote the development of the entire AI
Beijing News: Baidu has opened a deep learning platform, so that many small companies without related technology accumulation can also use AI technology. Will you think open source will cultivate more competitors afterwards?
Li Yanhong: I think artificial intelligence is a very big industry and it will last a long time. We now judge that the next 20 to 50 years will be a period of rapid development of artificial intelligence. Under the tide of this era, it is obviously not a company that can do everything. On the contrary, if we first enter the field and provide some platforms for institutions that do not have so much computing resources and are not so capable of long-term R&D, they may know more profoundly in many vertical fields than we do, and let them do it. Will promote the development of the entire artificial intelligence technology.
Beijing News: Baidu laid out driverless vehicles early on. What do you think is the biggest difficulty you are facing now?
Li Yanhong: The realization of artificial intelligence vehicles is still in a very early stage. We now only have dozens of cars that can be demos. No car is sold, and it will probably be commercialized from next year. This process will be a relatively long process. It will also be a gradual process of development. Driverless is a process of gradual enhancement from Level 1 to Level 5. We have all seen the big direction, but there is still considerable uncertainty as to how far each step can go.
The various environments that people encounter in driving are very complicated and difficult to exhaust by rules. This is not the same as playing Go. Going to a 19×19 grid is very clear. The rules for how to go each step are very clear. What is lost and what is winning is also very clear. However, what happens suddenly in the human driving activities can hardly be exhausted. Therefore, there are still many technical difficulties to be overcome here.
Questions and Answers
What do you think is the biggest change in the Internet industry in the past year?
Li Yanhong: The market environment has undergone major changes in the past year. The population growth of the Internet in China has slowed down, and people who use smart phones have already used smart phones. Therefore, we need new momentum and motivation.
Which aspect of China's Internet industry is the most likely to lead the world, and thus become a true Internet power?
Li Yanhong: China still has a lot of advantages in terms of artificial intelligence. We have a big market. We have a lot of talent. Everyone looks at the papers on artificial intelligence. Many of them are written by Chinese people. We also have a lot of money. Artificial intelligence needs rapid development and requires a lot of data for training. There is no other market in the world that has more than 700 million Internet users. They speak the same language, follow the same cultural and moral standards, and follow the same laws.
Write / Beijing News reporter Ma Yi
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