China grabs artificial intelligence first move: ranks first in the world

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China grabs artificial intelligence first move: ranks first in the world

In recent years, China's new round of technology and industrial revolution with artificial intelligence as its core is in the ascendant. Creating new products and services through artificial intelligence and promoting the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries has become an important focus for promoting supply-side structural reforms and achieving high-quality development. So what is the development level of artificial intelligence in China? What are the main characteristics? What kind of trend will be presented in the future? In this regard, our reporter interviewed relevant experts to explore the "Chinese coordinates" in the field of artificial intelligence in the world.

In 2016, the number of applications for patents related to artificial intelligence in China was 30,115, and it has continued to grow in the past 20 years.

As of June 30, 2017, China's artificial intelligence enterprise financing amounted to 63.5 billion yuan, ranking second in the world.

As of June 30, 2017, there were 592 artificial intelligence companies in China, ranking second in the world.

China's artificial intelligence industry ranks seventh in the world, and it is expected that the talent gap will exceed 5 million in the future.

1 ranked first in the world

A few days ago, the Malaysian Digital Economy Development Agency and the Kuala Lumpur City Hall announced a partnership with Alibaba Cloud to apply artificial intelligence technology to urban issues such as traffic management, urban planning and environmental protection.

Malaysia has installed China's “urban brain” and is one of the many examples of Chinese artificial intelligence technologies and programs “going out to sea”. In fact, in Japan, Singapore, Australia and other countries, we can see the presence of Chinese artificial intelligence. This shows China's global leading position in the field of artificial intelligence.

"At this stage, the development of artificial intelligence in China is the first echelon in the world, covering most of the sub-sectors in scientific research. In terms of application and industrialization, it is also more powerful." Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences Tao Jianhua, deputy director of the key laboratory, told this reporter that although the development of artificial intelligence in China started slightly later, after the new century, the overall development process was basically synchronized with European and American countries. Especially around 2010, after deep learning and other technologies opened a new wave of global artificial intelligence development, China seized the opportunity to stand at the forefront of international competition with developed countries.

The data shows that as of June 2017, the total number of artificial intelligence enterprises in the world reached 2,542, of which 1078 were in the United States, accounting for 42.4%; followed by China, with 592, accounting for 23.3%. The remaining 872 companies are located in Sweden, Singapore and other countries. The number of patent applications related to artificial intelligence in China has continued to grow in the past 20 years. In 2016, the number of applications for artificial intelligence related patents in China was 30,115.

Today, China's artificial intelligence has made many breakthroughs in technology research and development and industrial application. Taking computer vision technology as an example, China has now reached the global advanced level and even some leading levels. Baidu's deep learning network achieved a face recognition accuracy rate of 99.84%; Tencent won the championship with a score of 83.29% on the international authoritative face database MegaFace on the 1 million face recognition test.

2 “Artificial Intelligence+” is becoming a trend

Today, the Chinese artificial intelligence market is growing at a rate of nearly 50% per year. According to data released by market research institute Ai Media Consulting, the estimated growth rate of China's artificial intelligence industry will reach 51.2% in 2017, and the industry scale will reach 15.21 billion yuan.

Hao Liyang, an analyst at China Internet Network Information Center, said that the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology has accelerated the integration of artificial intelligence and other vertical industries in China, and emerged a number of artificial intelligence products such as smart homes, smart cars, wearable devices and intelligent robots.

In Tao Jianhua's view, China has the largest artificial intelligence market in the world, which stems from the huge application potential of “Artificial Intelligence+” in China. “The artificial intelligence market is divided into two major blocks. One is the application of artificial intelligence technology combined with computers, networks, big data, etc., such as face recognition, public opinion analysis, speech recognition, image filtering, etc. On the other hand, The integration of traditional industries (especially manufacturing), transformation and upgrading. In fact, China's development potential in the latter is the largest in the world." Tao Jianhua said.

In fact, the reason why "artificial intelligence +" has huge development space in China has deep internal logic. The report of the 19th National Congress proposed to promote the deep integration of the Internet, big data, artificial intelligence and the real economy. It is the country that deepens the supply-side structural reform, accelerates the development of advanced manufacturing, and achieves a high-quality development background and a large situation, which provides a broad stage for the development of artificial intelligence in China.

"China's economic development has entered a new normal and faces the arduous task of deepening supply-side structural reform. It should accelerate the in-depth application of artificial intelligence, foster and strengthen the artificial intelligence industry, and inject new kinetic energy into economic growth." Cheng Weili, deputy researcher of the Economic Forecasting Department of the National Information Center Say.

3 or welcome to adjust the shuffling period

With the improvement of scientific research level and the growth of market scale, artificial intelligence has become a hot spot for domestic entrepreneurship and investment. Data show that as of June 30, 2017, China's artificial intelligence enterprise financing amounted to 63.5 billion yuan, accounting for 33.18% of the total global financing in this field, second only to the United States in the world. However, behind the appearance of prosperity, there is also a hidden worry of "foaming." Experts and industry insiders pointed out that in 2018, China's artificial intelligence industry will usher in an adjustment and reshuffle period to achieve higher quality development.

In recent years, robots have become frequent visitors to high-tech fairs around the world. However, some practitioners and viewers have discovered that many robots with simple procedures and rough workmanship have also been labeled as “artificial intelligence” and are sold at a high price. In fact, the sound of the “virtual fire” and “bubble” in the artificial intelligence industry has been heard all the time. Li Kaifu, chairman of the Innovation Workshop, said last year that there was a bubble in artificial intelligence entrepreneurship. At the end of 2018, it was estimated that a group of companies had closed down after the financing was exhausted. Some even believe that in 2018, China will usher in the "downturn" of artificial intelligence enterprises.

"The development of the artificial intelligence industry requires a process, in which some enterprises will inevitably be eliminated, but it is too early to say that the 'closing tide' is too early." Tao Jianhua said.

Tao Jianhua analyzed three situations in which artificial intelligence enterprises may collapse. First, some enterprises abuse and speculate on the concept of artificial intelligence, and ultimately they cannot escape the fate of being eliminated. Second, some enterprises are expected to have too high a demand for new technology applications, but they cannot achieve it in the short term. The huge pressure makes it difficult for enterprises to continue. Third, some enterprises were defeated in the increasingly fierce competition in the artificial intelligence market and forced to close down.

Sun Lining, deputy director of the State Key Laboratory of Robotics and Systems, believes that the development of artificial intelligence requires time and process. At present, the whole industry is overheated and blind, and the occurrence of bubbles and bankruptcies is normal, in line with the laws of the technology industry. The market itself has the process of survival of the fittest and big waves. This also promotes the higher quality development of the artificial intelligence industry from the side.

4 Inciting the scale of the trillion economy

How deep will artificial intelligence affect China in the future? Science magazine predicts that artificial intelligence will replace 50% of global employment in 2045, compared with 77% in China. How much will China's artificial intelligence market be? The market consultancy Accenture released a report that as a new production factor, by 2035, artificial intelligence will boost China's labor productivity by 27%, and is expected to increase the total value of China's economy by 7.1 trillion US dollars. .

“Artificial intelligence will change the future of China's industries. This means that companies need to adjust their corporate structure to fully apply artificial intelligence and adopt new ways of working to transform into new business areas.” Chen Xiaobing, President, Accenture Greater China Information Technology Services Said.

Nowadays, the global competition around the development of artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly hot, and the world's major developed countries are trying to take the lead in this new round of international science and technology competition. Among them, China released the "Made in China 2025", "Internet +" Action Opinions, "New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan" and other documents, grabbed the "first mover" in the top design, and painted a blueprint for the development of artificial intelligence in China.

"In this wave of artificial intelligence development, the top-level design of China's artificial intelligence is relatively early in the international arena, and it is at the forefront. Now some European countries want to learn from China's integration of artificial intelligence into national strategy. In general, the development of artificial intelligence in China has been valued by the government and has a policy advantage." Tao Jianhua said.

According to the new generation of artificial intelligence development plan issued by the State Council, by 2030, China will realize the artificial intelligence core industry scale of more than 1 trillion yuan, driving the relevant industry scale to exceed 10 trillion yuan. The plan also shows that by 2030, China's artificial intelligence theory, technology and applications should reach the world's leading level and become the world's major artificial intelligence innovation center.

In order to achieve this goal, what areas does China need to focus on? In this regard, Tao Jianhua believes that the key lies in talent development.

The data shows that as of March 2017, more than 1.9 million professionals in the world work in the artificial intelligence industry. Among them, there are as many as 850,000 people in the United States, and China ranks 7th with a figure of slightly over 50,000, ranking behind India, the United Kingdom, and Canada. Some experts predict that the gap of artificial intelligence talents in China will exceed 5 million in the next few years.

Tao Jianhua believes that China needs to strengthen the construction of artificial intelligence talents from three levels: First, expand the existing talent training mechanism and strengthen the construction of disciplines and personnel training systems. The second is to strengthen the cultivation of innovative talents and technological application innovation. The third is to strengthen international talent cooperation and enhance the attractiveness of international talents.

"Which artificial intelligence can fight to the end, it depends on who has more talents." Tao Jianhua said.

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