China News Agency, Beijing, September 27 (Reporter Zhang Xu) "Artificial intelligence has a variety of application scenarios, and the demand is very strong." In an interview with "China Focus Face-to-face", for example, for natural language processing needs, generate a text summary, you give it three sentences, and you can write a 50-episode TV series for you.
Recently, the topic of China's "artificial intelligence computing center orders bursting" has attracted a lot of attention.
Wuhan's first artificial intelligence computing center was built at the end of May. It was full every day and was running at full capacity as soon as it opened. At present, appointments have been scheduled for half a year.
China News Agency "China Focus Face to Face" interviewed Zheng Weimin, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and professor of the Department of Computer Science and Technology of Tsinghua University.
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Why is the market demand for artificial intelligence (AI) computing centers so strong?
According to Zheng Weimin, artificial intelligence has a lot of demand for three types of applications, so the queue will be queued up to six months later.
“The first is image detection and video retrieval. It can be used in security, medical diagnosis, and autonomous driving. The core is convolutional networks. This type of application has been implemented well and has played a very good role. The second is decision-making. For example, transportation planning, etc., this type has also played a very good effect. The core is reinforcement learning. The third is natural language processing. For example, search and recommendation, intelligent man-machine interface, and the core is Transformer. In terms of application, language translation, Chinese translated into English, English translated into Japanese, etc. You can answer any question you ask. Another example is to generate a text summary. You give it three sentences and you can write a 50-episode TV series for you."
He said that in terms of scientific research and innovation, a very important trend is HPC (high performance computing) + AI (artificial intelligence), which combines traditional high-performance computing applications based on simulation methods with AI models.
Solve problems that could not be solved in the past, or accelerate problems that took a long time in the past by thousands of times.
"Now that artificial intelligence computing power is also used as an infrastructure, it is being recognized by more and more users. But we must also note that computing power as an infrastructure requires relevant data as the basis. Machines include ordinary machines, including humans. Smart machines are placed on the cloud. The privacy and confidentiality of data in many industries still have great restrictions on cloud access. How to put data on the cloud is a problem worth considering." Zheng Weimin said.
In addition, Zheng Weimin said that it is difficult for China to talk about advantages in basic theories and algorithms, but it can basically follow the first echelon, the algorithms and theories put forward by the Americans, and we will soon be able to keep up with and improve applications.
"I hope that the domestic industry and universities will pay more attention to building advanced basic software from scratch, and provide more revolutionary basic system software for the digital industry in China and the world." (End)