This is the scene of the B20 (G20 industrial and commercial sector event) Hangzhou Summit in 2016. As chairman of the B20 Employment Working Group, Robin Li officially proposed the “G20 SMART Innovation Initiativeâ€.
In an interview, Li Yanhong stated that at present, we are standing at the junction of the old and new technological revolutions. The growth dividends brought about by the last technological revolution have been continuously weakened, and new technologies represented by artificial intelligence, new materials, and new energy sources are undergoing qualitative changes. The night before.
"The experience of several technological revolutions in history tells us that we should take the initiative to embrace new technological changes and use technological innovations to improve efficiency, thereby improving the structure and expanding employment." Li Yanhong returned to Baidu's belief - a frenzy of technology.
The technical myth of "Baidu's brain"
Artificial intelligence has become a contestable territory for major technology companies. Microsoft, Google, Facebook, IBM, and other foreign technology giants have set up artificial intelligence labs, merger and acquisition startups, and other methods to lay out more points in the field of artificial intelligence. In this situation, Li Yanhong led Baidu to quickly establish an artificial intelligence vision.
At that time, Robin Li made a bold prediction: “The next era after mobile Internet is the era of artificial intelligence. In the big direction, I guess this judgment can't be wrong.†Li Yanhong believes that the arrival of artificial intelligence era, Technological innovation and technological revolution will bring a lot of new job opportunities. It is a higher-level, happier, healthier, and happier way of working.
In 2012, Baidu began investing heavily in deep learning research. By January 2013, Baidu established the Institute of Deep Learning, dedicated to the development of artificial intelligence. "Baidu has huge input in such technologies as speech recognition, face recognition, unmanned vehicle, natural language understanding, robotic assistant, etc. These are also important functions of Baidu's brain." Li Yanhong talks about artificial intelligence technology and relishes it immediately. The family turned into a senior technical man. He said that the closest to practicality and the most advanced development at present is the ability of speech. Taking speech recognition as an example, the accuracy rate can reach 97%, which has surpassed the recognition ability of human speech.
Li Yanhong’s chase for artificial intelligence comes from love. "For me, I think I was particularly lucky. I was very fond of artificial intelligence 10 or 20 years ago or even earlier." Li Yanhong said that "Baidu brain" is exactly the core of Bai artificial intelligence, and its more He spread his understanding of artificial intelligence on different occasions.
At the 2016 Baidu World Conference, Robin Li first demonstrated to the outside world the achievements of Baidu artificial intelligence in the four major areas of speech, images, natural language processing and user portraits.
"These technologies will become the core driving force for the next step in the development of the global Internet. In the future, Chinese companies must maintain a leading edge in these areas." Li Yanhong can see the future in high-rise buildings, but there is still the worry that "I don't know where tomorrow is". "Every time, every day," said Li Yanhong.