China News Service, March 25. The 2024 Annual Meeting of the China Development Forum will be held on March 24-25, 2024. The "Seminar on Artificial Intelligence Development and Governance" was held on the afternoon of March 24. Wu Zhaohui, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology, said in his speech in the "Keynote Speech One" session: Artificial intelligence is currently at the starting point of mass technological change, with major achievements. The continuous emergence will promote economic and social development in all aspects, and at the same time breed new major changes.
First, artificial intelligence is moving towards a new stage of multi-intelligence integration.
Major breakthroughs in large model technology represented by ChatGPT and Sora have opened the door to general artificial intelligence. Large models have become the mainstream technology route and are accelerating iterative evolution. Basic language large models have undergone breakthrough upgrades, and new deep network architectures have emerged one after another; multimodal large models have become the main direction of current model research. The cross-integration of multiple technical paths has accelerated the arrival of general artificial intelligence, and large model technology is realizing cross-integration with various fields of artificial intelligence. These breakthroughs will promote artificial intelligence from the 2.0 stage represented by deep learning to the artificial intelligence 3.0 stage with large and small model collaboration and the rapid development of new intelligent forms.
Second, artificial intelligence will become a standard feature of the fourth industrial revolution.
Artificial intelligence is the core driving force of the fourth industrial revolution. It will promote the revolutionary upgrading of the real economy, thereby giving birth to a new form of smart economy and becoming an important guide for the development of new productive forces. Artificial intelligence will accelerate the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, achieve quality changes, efficiency changes, and power changes, and reshape all aspects of industry such as basic reconstruction, production and service model innovation, thereby leading the development of new industrialization and providing new momentum for the smart economy. Innovations in business models and economic forms inspired by artificial intelligence are affecting and penetrating into all walks of life at an unprecedented speed, thereby building a new form of smart economy driven by data, human-machine collaboration, cross-border integration, and co-creation and sharing, forming a new economic growth point. Artificial intelligence will assist major scientific discoveries and cutting-edge technology applications, and will intersect with biomanufacturing, brain science, economy, energy, cultural creativity and other fields. It is expected to create disruptive products and industries and accelerate the development of future industries.
Third, artificial intelligence will trigger far-reaching changes in social development.
Artificial intelligence will be widely used in education, medical care, nursing, housekeeping and other fields. With the improvement of intelligence level, service robots have gradually entered thousands of households, creating a better life. The promotion and application of large model technology in the medical field will accelerate the realization of the vision of personalized and exclusive digital hospitals. Artificial intelligence will bring about innovation in cultural creation and communication methods, enrich cultural products, improve the efficiency of cultural communication across fields and across time and space, and accelerate the process of cultural integration. Artificial intelligence is expected to push human society towards an era of enhanced intelligence where humans and machines coexist. The physical world, the virtual world, and the information world will interact in parallel, and the binary space of "human-physical world" will be transformed into "human-physical world-intelligent machine- The quaternary space of "virtual information world" can meet the requirements of automation, real-time and personalization of emotional perception.
Fourth, the large-scale cross-border application of artificial intelligence will bring multiple security risks and challenges.
Emerging technologies represented by generative large models can cheaply generate erroneous descriptions of people and events, reducing the public's overall trust in real information, causing cognitive confusion and impacting the original social and life order. Problems such as the misuse, abuse, and privacy leakage of artificial intelligence, as well as the value distortion and emotional dependence caused by the use of artificial intelligence products, violate moral principles, undermine fairness and justice, and lead to ethical anomie, thus triggering deep-seated ethics and morality. question. At the same time, the intelligence of artificial intelligence may surpass humans in some areas, which will also threaten the common interests of mankind. How we coexist with artificial intelligence and better benefit human society while ensuring its safety and controllability has become a major challenge faced by the world and the whole society.