(Jing Guan things) Interview with Tesilian founder and CEO Ai Yu: What kind of city in the future does AI describe?
China News Service, Beijing, September 9th. Title: (Jing Guan Dong) Interview with Tesilian founder and CEO Ai Yu: What kind of city in the future does AI describe?
Author Liu Wenwen
"What does the city of the future look like? I think it's like a combination of virtual and reality. The scenes in science fiction films may become reality. At that time, technology will be reflected in every detail of life, and robots and artificial intelligence will be very important among them. The part." Tesilian founder and CEO Ai Yu said in an exclusive interview with China News Agency a few days ago.
The World Expo, which will be held in Dubai, UAE from October 1, 2021 to March 31, 2022, will be an excellent platform to showcase future technologies and lifestyles.
Terminus is the only Chinese company among the official chief partners of the Dubai World Expo this year. At that time, Terminus will provide 152 robots to participate in the intelligentization of the entire future special zone of the Expo.
As an international company on the technology track, Terminus has been deeply involved in the urban intelligence market, and has built AI CITY (artificial intelligence city) with AIoT (artificial intelligence + Internet of things technology).
What is AI CITY?
What will the city of the future look like?
What possibilities does the new AI species bring to the intelligentization of cities?
What are the opportunities for China's technological innovation in the future?
Ai Yu gave his answers to these questions.
AI CITY is a new stage of development for smart cities
What is AI CITY and how is it different from traditional smart cities?
Ai Yu said that the AI CITY created by Tesilian is a “new species”. With the help of its self-developed global ecological-level city intelligent operating system TACOS (Terminus AI CITY Operating System), it connects all technologies and products, and outputs benefits through the underlying capabilities. Can be used in various scenes in the city.
AI CITY is very different from traditional smart cities. Smart cities focus on solutions, while AI CITY focuses more on the overall automated operation of the city as a service. It has the ability to perceive, think, and solve problems independently, and it is no longer blocked like a traditional smart city. More than sparse, cities can continue to evolve through learning.
Therefore, it can be said that AI CITY is a new development stage of smart cities.
“It’s like building a city like a smart phone or smart car. This process needs to bring together partners from various industries and ecosystems.” Ai Yu further explained that there are dozens of scenarios in AI CITY. First of all, the product form must be defined, like Apple defines Iphone as the same; then it produces suitable hardware and operating systems, and cultivates various applications on the open platform, so as to lead the entire ecological co-construction, so as to completely solve the problem of data islands in traditional urban intelligence.
Take the Telslink City Smart Operating System as an example. At present, it has access to more than 900 ecological partners to conduct alliances and services around the scenarios and ecology of smart cities.
AI CITY has also completely realized the development from single technology to integrated technology, the evolution from single intelligence to group intelligence, and the expansion from data-driven to scenario traction.
AI development has entered the second half, how far is it from achieving true intelligence?
What pain points still need to be solved?
Ai Yu said frankly that AI must be deeply integrated with business scenarios.
In the past, people may think that AI is a luxury, but it is expensive and practical, but in the future, AI technology will be more functional, and people will be able to use AI in more scenarios.
Therefore, the future AI landing must be a combination of scene-driven and user needs.
AI CITY has been green and low-carbon since its birth
In Ai Yu's view, the dual-carbon concept has very rich content from the energy supply side to the application side.
To achieve the dual-carbon goal, energy conservation and emission reduction in the field of urban intelligence are mainly manifested in structural energy conservation and technical energy conservation.
Among them, structural energy saving refers to the use of thermal power and coal power to turn green electricity or the use of new materials to structurally reduce carbon; while technical energy saving refers to the use of IoT devices and AI algorithms to digitize the process of urban energy use, while controlling and optimizing it.
In the process of carbon neutrality, how to save energy and reduce emissions on the existing basis, and improve efficiency by upgrading technology is the key.
“AI CITY has been green and low-carbon since the first day of its birth, and represents the future urban form.” Ai Yu pointed out that Tesilian began to deploy energy intelligence 5 years ago. All projects operated in the past 5 years are currently It can achieve an energy saving rate of 20%-30%.
Take the AI CITY “model room” built in Chongqing—AI PARK as an example. After the formal operation, the daily carbon emissions are far less than the carbon absorption. After 16 months of operation, the carbon emissions generated during the construction phase can be neutralized.
After 50 years of operation, by 2071, AI PARK will also absorb 170,000 tons of carbon dioxide from the surrounding area.
He mentioned that a very important point in the dual carbon goal is to increase the terminal electrification rate.
Currently, China's terminal electrification rate is 30%.
Taking Terminus as an example, the electrification rate is expected to reach 70% in the next few years through intelligent and algorithm control of terminal power consumption.
In the next 5-10 years, China's technological innovation will enter the era of blowout
A new species of AI has been born, and urban evolution is an inevitable trend.
Ai Yu pointed out that, taking the application of artificial intelligence as an example, China has absolute leadership in data, scenarios, users and other dimensions. In the future, the urban form will also undergo brand-new changes due to the application of technology. The entire city can evolve and continue to Through learning the needs of human beings, we will realize a better understanding of everyone's urban life.
For this reason, Ai Yu asserted that China's technological innovation will enter a blowout era in the next 5-10 years.
In his view, China’s technological innovation in the past was mostly application-level iterative innovation on the basis of Western countries’ technology, but nowadays, industrial intelligence has brought huge historical industrial opportunities to China. Leading the world, such as full-stack services of robots, extensive application of unmanned driving, and group intelligence brought by city-level intelligent platforms.
In the next 5-10 years, China will further expand its leading edge in landing applications and become a leader in the era of smart new economy.
Speaking of Terminus will provide 152 robots to participate in the intelligentization of the future special zone of Dubai World Expo, Ai Yu said that this is not only the expectation and recognition of China's science and technology by the World Expo, but also an affirmation of Terminus's technology attribute label representing the "future" .
Chinese companies should think about how to develop from a global perspective and thinking, and fully compete with global companies in a fair environment. "We have full confidence in this."
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