5G+AI win-win symbiosis, artificial intelligence has great potential!

Regardless of whether people are pessimistic or optimistic, the discussion about artificial intelligence has never stopped, and amid various controversies, new industry applications using artificial intelligence technology continue to emerge. Although there is still a big gap from the expected results, it has to be admitted that artificial intelligence has begun to play a role in all walks of life.

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At this year's "2020 World Artificial Intelligence Conference Cloud Summit", many well-known Chinese and foreign artificial intelligence companies delivered speeches and held high-end dialogues on the technological frontiers, industrial trends and hot issues in the field of intelligence through on-site or online video. In addition, many technology giants and rising stars discussed the new momentum and new opportunities brought by artificial intelligence to the future industrial economy.

As in the past, the vast majority of experts and companies believe that the importance of AI in empowering traditional enterprises has become increasingly prominent during the epidemic, and they firmly believe that artificial intelligence will usher in a big explosion. However, some experts and companies remain calm about artificial intelligence, believing that artificial intelligence is currently just a starting point.

The two views are not contradictory. In fact, we have seen that although artificial intelligence is not yet mature, we have begun to slowly feel the services and conveniences brought to us by artificial intelligence in our daily lives. Moreover, with the acceleration of 5G network construction, artificial intelligence will work with cloud, edge, and end infrastructure to effectively promote the interconnection of all things and data aggregation, greatly reduce the threshold for AI use, and comprehensively promote the deep integration of AI into economic and social development.

Great things to do vs. pouring cold water

"We have been reflecting on whether technological innovation can enable humans to better control their own destiny at critical moments," Li Yanhong mentioned in his speech. "We were not able to dispatch a large number of driverless cars to help people solve daily life problems when Wuhan was locked down. We were also unable to quickly find a vaccine for the new coronavirus through biocomputing. We have not yet been able to reserve enough basic technologies and applications to deal with the risks of pseudo-globalization for a considerable period of time in the future."

The epidemic has made many people pessimistic about technology, especially AI technology. "But as an insider, I know that artificial intelligence has been making continuous progress, and we hope to use technology to enable humans to control their own destiny," said Robin Li.

He admitted that artificial intelligence is just in a cycle and will definitely usher in a big explosion, just like the development of the Internet. After enduring the cycle, small people will achieve great things.

From his words, it is not difficult to see that although Robin Li poured cold water on artificial intelligence at the beginning, in his opinion, artificial intelligence still has great potential. "In terms of public health monitoring, new drug development and disease diagnosis, artificial intelligence can improve the sensitivity and accuracy of detection, shorten the cycle of new drug development, reduce the cost of new drug development, and improve the accuracy and efficiency of medical diagnosis. In addition, artificial intelligence will greatly improve efficiency in areas such as transportation and energy, and promote economic growth."

Zhang Wenhong, director of the infectious disease department at Huashan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University, also bluntly said: "This epidemic has made us realize that AI is just a starting point. At the beginning of the epidemic, all the work was done manually because there was no data for resource allocation. Only later did intelligent allocation come into play."

Although artificial intelligence did not play a big role at the beginning of the epidemic, Zhang Wenhong still recognized the potential of artificial intelligence. "When artificial intelligence was involved in the allocation of materials, we realized that artificial intelligence would have very powerful material allocation capabilities in the future."

"Also, artificial intelligence can play a big role in how to integrate online and offline data for early warning and form a complete system," Zhang Wenhong added.

As mentioned earlier, although there is still a big gap from the expected results, we have to admit that artificial intelligence has begun to play its value in all walks of life, including finance, education, medical care, driverless cars, smart transportation, etc. Taking this epidemic as an example, artificial intelligence has played an irreplaceable role in medical care, education, industry and other aspects.

In the medical industry, during the COVID-19 outbreak, more than 30 provinces and cities, including Beijing, Hubei, and Tianjin, used artificial intelligence telephone robots to conduct screening of key populations, education, and contactless collection of epidemic-related data. They provided services to 59 million people in total, screened out 36,000 residents with fever symptoms, and 47,000 people with positive epidemiological histories. Artificial intelligence has made up for the shortcomings of primary diagnosis and treatment services to a certain extent.

In education, new technologies such as artificial intelligence and big data have alleviated the phenomenal problems that exist in traditional education. For example, the application of intelligent grading technology in teachers' daily homework grading can reduce the time by 50%-70%; through the combination of handwriting recognition technology with automatic grading, knowledge graph and other technologies, the time for students' ineffective repetitive homework can be reduced by more than 50%. This makes "reducing the burden on teachers and students" a possible slogan.

In the industrial sector, Shandong Gold Sanshan Island Gold Mine adopts "5G+AI" technology to bring gold mines into the era of unmanned intelligent mining. It is understood that this technology is an overall solution for unmanned mining, which not only effectively eliminates the safety risks of underground personnel in the mining area, but also improves overall profitability and helps mining companies resume work and production.

The above are just a microcosm of the application of artificial intelligence in the industry. In the future, various technologies and application innovations based on artificial intelligence will surely bring us more surprises.

The chemical reaction of 5G+AI

The great achievements of artificial intelligence are inseparable from the support of 5G to a certain extent. "5G and AI have become strategic technologies leading a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, and are also important contents of new infrastructure construction. The two are mutually integrated and mutually beneficial, and will accelerate the digital transformation of the economy and society," said Dong Xin, general manager of China Mobile.

In his opinion, with the acceleration of 5G network construction and coordination with cloud, edge, and end infrastructure, it will effectively promote the interconnection of all things and data aggregation, greatly lower the threshold for AI use, and comprehensively promote the deep integration of AI into economic and social development.

In terms of digital life, "high-speed connection + sensory intelligence" will give birth to new applications of human-computer interaction. Visual, auditory, and tactile intelligence will quickly penetrate into personal wearable and home devices, showing a rich and colorful smart life.

In terms of digital production, "reliable connection + dedicated intelligence" will give birth to a new form of intelligent manufacturing. With its high reliability and low latency features, 5G will integrate discrete networks in various fields of industrial production, promote the deep integration of AI into the entire process and all links of manufacturing, and significantly improve the production efficiency of traditional industries.

In terms of digital governance, "wide area connection + general intelligence" will give birth to a new model of smart governance. The ultra-large-scale connection characteristics of 5G will promote online intercommunication in various fields such as education, medical care, and transportation, accelerate the full circulation and efficient use of data elements, support AI deep learning, and promote the transformation of social governance towards coordination, precision, and efficiency. For example, in the fight against the epidemic, based on communication, transportation, medical and other data, AI has become a "magic weapon" for tracing the movement trajectory of personnel and analyzing their health status.

It is conceivable that the integration of 5G and AI will trigger chain changes, produce a multiplier effect, accelerate the interconnection, perception and intelligence of all things, and have a profound impact on the digital transformation of the economy and society.

Qualcomm President Amon also said that we are entering a new era of intelligent cloud connectivity driven by AI and 5G, where everything will be connected to the cloud and interconnected in a reliable way. "The combination of 5G and AI will affect every aspect of our lives and many industries. This is the next major technological change."

Dai Wenyuan, founder and CEO of 4Paradigm, also expressed his own views. He believes that 5G technology and IoT technology will help AI to undergo new changes. "At present, AI learns through people, and a lot of labeled data is learned by people clicking on web pages and software to let machines learn. In the future, the development of 5G and IoT will generate tens of thousands of times more data for AI to learn than humans, bringing a qualitative leap to AI."