Some people say that the future is the age of artificial intelligence, and every step of artificial intelligence attracts the attention of the world. The artificial intelligence, hailed as the next wave of technology, is taking a fast turn. Artificial intelligence, a 61-year-old concept that is being driven by the Internet and big data, profoundly changes People's Daily lives.

For the first time this year, artificial intelligence is written to the Chinese government work report, with further optimized intelligent manufacturing policy environment, China's development of artificial intelligence will be into the fast lane.

Status: technology research leads, innovation-driven development

If we open alipay, we can talk to ali. Turning on the phone, voice recognition can answer questions for us; To open up the flight input method, can realize the high precision voice translation for the text input; To open baidu, we can recommend the most needed search...

Artificial intelligence, already deep into the daily life of Chinese people, brings a lot of convenience to our life. China has achieved a phased success in artificial intelligence. Ai media consulting data show that in 2016 China's artificial intelligence industry growth rate of 43.3%, exceed 10 billion yuan, is expected to reach 15.21 billion yuan, in 2017 and grew to $34.43 billion in 2019.

Thus, the industry has defined 2016 as "the year of artificial intelligence in China". This is not only because of the popularity of the artificial intelligence industry itself, but also because of the increasing amount of artificial intelligence in the whole market.

On the one hand, China's artificial intelligence research is in the midst of an explosion. Liu lihua, vice minister of industry and information technology, said China has been leading the world in artificial intelligence research. Figures show that China's artificial intelligence patent application number up to 15745, ranked second, China is today one of the world's leader in the field of artificial intelligence research and development.

In this context, artificial intelligence also has a policy positive, first as a representative for emerging industries, and is being written into the government work report for 2017. "Besides the national policy, local governments are also beginning to dense artificial intelligence industry form a complete set of supporting funds policy, efforts to solve the practical problems in the development of enterprises." Ccid consulting, a senior analyst at xiangyang pointed out that by the end of 2016, more than 30 cities will have a robot industry as a key development object, the local government built and under construction around the robot industrial park more than 40.

On the other hand, advances in basic research have supported the commercialization of artificial intelligence. "In the PC Internet era, China is following; in the mobile Internet era, China has a lot of product innovation, in the age of artificial intelligence, China can have a lot of innovation in products and technology." Zhang yaqin, President of baidu, said artificial intelligence had become the backbone of today's Chinese companies.

"We used to rely on factors such as resources, capital, labor input, support China's rapid economic growth and expanding scale, but it has become history, Chinese academy of sciences and the Chinese society of artificial intelligence de-yi li said:" to speed up the transition from elements drive to innovation-driven development, artificial intelligence is a kind of solution."

Opportunity: vast data resources, multi-party layout

"In the transportation sector, we can see how the urban brain thinks." Member of the American association of electrical and electronic engineers, ali cloud machine vision scientists vividly described, hua application ali brain system development in hangzhou city, able to perceive under complex road vehicle running track, accuracy above 99%. The system is the world's only artificial intelligence system capable of real-time analysis of video throughout the city.

In the past two years, Chinese tech giants such as baidu, tencent and ali have all been working in artificial intelligence. Baidu to gain world recognition, in the field of face recognition in facial recognition technology, two of the most authoritative international evaluation has won the first place, tencent launched news writing robot automation. "China is moving in step with the world and is even at an international level in areas such as computer vision and voice recognition." Liu said that a number of competitive enterprises and research institutions have emerged in China and have developed a sound foundation for development.

, ai media consulting analysts believe that China's artificial intelligence industry started relatively late, but in the industry layout and technical research infrastructure is in progress. With the development of technology and manufacturing companies, the industry of artificial intelligence will expand further. Statistics show that by the end of 2015, China there have been nearly hundred startups in the area of artificial intelligence, in video data, large data intelligent analysis, wisdom, health care, unmanned, face recognition and other fields with layout.

The most mature voice recognition in artificial intelligence has reached 99.7 percent accuracy. "Robots have been able to talk, listen, read, write and translate. Artificial intelligence is moving into the ordinary world." De-yi li said.

And the field of driverless cars is advancing. "From assisted driving to semi-autonomous driving and unmanned, the high intelligence of future Chinese cars will be very popular." Baic assistant general manager of the new energy vehicles, director of marketing support department shui-li wang said in an interview with our reporter, intelligent will be a big trend in the development of China's car, a lot of research and development of intelligent car companies have invested a lot of money.

The personage inside course of study says, China in the field of artificial intelligence application has incomparable advantage over other countries, with the aid of huge amounts of data, Chinese companies have been in speech recognition, language translation, there is no car in areas such as lead.

"The key to the core of artificial intelligence is vast amounts of data, the data exists in China, and can create value, we expect that artificial intelligence would be China leading the world's best opportunities." "Said kai-fu lee, chairman and chief executive of innovation works.

Development: farewell to "single-fight", promoting industrial clusters

Management consulting firm McKinsey released a report that the scale of data resources and types increase and more and more attention, artificial intelligence technology giants and vc platform in quantity and scale, will give China the opportunity of a "how". McKinsey expects China's ai market to grow at a 50 per cent annual rate, well above the compound annual growth rate of 20 per cent in the global market.

"Artificial intelligence have the situation today is very not easy, we want to maintain good posture, make social attention for a long time, need to form a huge industry." Yu haibin, director of the shenyang institute of automation in the Chinese academy of sciences, said at the 2017 global artificial intelligence conference.

In fact, less than 25 per cent of ai practitioners in China have more than 10 years of industry experience, compared with 50 per cent in the us. It must be admitted that although China in niche, such as speech recognition has been an leading position, but China's artificial intelligence construction of industrial clusters slightly slow, artificial intelligence has not formed the perfect win-win mechanism between production.

"Artificial intelligence industry in China is still given priority to with" solo ", lack of cooperation between technology, products, interconnection and upstream and downstream of the interaction between the lack of effective coordination, unable to form development together." Sadie, a think-tank, deputy director of the institute of electronic information industry WenXiaoJun advice, to build a set of technical research and development, demonstration application, product certification testing, intellectual property, and other functions as one of the industrial public service platform, to build artificial intelligence innovation incubation center, promote production docking.

To build up the public service platform of the industry and enhance the ability of the collective innovation of artificial intelligence, we will undoubtedly need the support of local governments and operators of industrial parks. Last year, the government often related to planning, to foster the backbone enterprises of the world's leading artificial intelligence, cultivating artificial intelligence industry ecology, establishing artificial intelligence industry system, the innovation service system and standardization system, to build the market scale of artificial intelligence.

"If artificial intelligence was a loose soldier, then it was the regular army that was incorporated." The company's founder, ye weigang, said he hoped the government could support the innovation and development of the industry through market-oriented approaches.

Industry experts point out that artificial intelligence must be applied to different industries to unlock its huge potential. This new technology combined with artificial intelligence, education, medical treatment, customer service, home, dressing equipment, robot, e-business and so on all walks of life, is a big impact to traditional industry, will promote the vigorous development of various fields industries.