(Economic Watch) Where will the new round of AI development take humanity?

Beijing, May 5 (ZXS) -- The new round of artificial intelligence craze represented by ChatGPT has attracted the attention of the world, what impact will it have on people's production and life? Experts believe that every industry may have a relationship with AI (artificial intelligence) in the future.

ChatGPT is a natural language human-computer interaction application developed by OpenAI, which has near-human language understanding and generation capabilities. ChatGPT took just over two months from its release to more than 100 million users worldwide, creating a "myth" and accelerating competition for large models.

At the 17 Sohu Science and Technology Summit held on the 2023th, Bai Chunli, former president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that artificial intelligence is an important force in a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial revolution, and accelerating the development of a new generation of artificial intelligence is a strategic issue for a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation opportunities.

The reason why ChatGPT is outstanding, Zhang Fan, chief operating officer of Zhipu AI, believes that this is because of the large model technology behind it. The large model began in 2017, with the change of the number of parameters, from tens of billions to close to <> billion, intelligence has a rapid burst, that is, the so-called "emergence", including the ability to think, follow instructions, reasoning, etc., all of which began to occur after the parameters were very large.

In this round of artificial intelligence development, application demand has become the main driving force. Bai Chunli believes that although technological progress also plays an important role, the main driving force is the continuous expansion of application scenarios and the deep integration of economic and social applications, which has spawned a large number of new industries and new formats.

What scenarios will use new AI technologies in the future? "The productivity transformation after the integration of AI and working methods has improved management efficiency, collaboration efficiency and innovation efficiency. AI development will bring 100-1000 times more efficiency. Ye Jun, president of DingTalk, said.

He believes that every industry will have a relationship with AI in the future. With the increase of data accumulation, the improvement of tool capabilities, the enhancement of reasoning capabilities, and the support of computing power, every industry will undergo changes as a result.

Zhang Shuangnan, director of the Center for Particle Astrophysics at the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that in the face of a volatile and unpredictable universe, today's observation capabilities are very limited. Artificial intelligence can command hundreds of satellites to cooperate in a friendly manner to achieve high-quality observation without leakage of the net.

Gao Liang, general manager of Biocomputing Innovation and Development Platform, said that artificial intelligence big models are of great significance in the field of biocomputing. While traditional protein discovery is limited by naturally occurring proteins, large models can greatly expand the search space and efficiently design new functions.

Artificial intelligence technology has also spawned the development of virtual digital humans. Zhang Yijia, CEO of Lingxin Intelligence, said that the future is an era of harmonious integration between AI and people, but intelligent bodies also need to have both IQ and emotional intelligence. There are many scenarios that anthropomorphic models can use, including acting as an intermediary in social interaction, and even emotional mediation.

In the face of a new round of vigorous development of artificial intelligence, China has also carried out a multi-party layout, and many technology companies have launched large models. Chinese officials emphasize that it is necessary to attach importance to the development of general artificial intelligence, create an innovation ecology, and attach importance to risk prevention.

Bai Chunli believes that the next 5-10 years will be a critical period for the development of artificial intelligence. It is predicted that in 2030, the scale of the core industry of Chinese intelligence will exceed 1 trillion yuan, and the global artificial intelligence market will reach 16 trillion US dollars, and there is still great potential and space for development.

He believes that at this stage, Chinese engineering intelligence needs to focus on solving three key problems: the core technology and basic capabilities are not strong, the industrial development ecology is not perfect, and the high-end talents are seriously insufficient. Bai Chunli suggested giving full play to the advantages of the new national system under the conditions of the socialist market economy, strengthening the top-level design, strengthening overall coordination and systematic layout, innovating the talent training model, and strengthening the construction of laws, regulations, ethical norms and policy systems. (End)