Blowing the madness to the beginning of the gold
Editor’s note: This article from the WeChat public account “ brain pole body “(ID: unity007), author: I am imposing a panda.
The sledgehammer of the US entity list finally fell on Chinese AI companies.
On October 7th, local time, the US Department of Commerce announced that 28 entities including 8 Chinese companies will be included in the list of export control entities, including a series of familiar companies such as HKUST, Vision, and Shangtang. AI company.
Compared with the anger of the people who were eaten by Huawei when they were listed, people have already become much calmer. No matter whether it is the stock market or the public’s attention, they have not shown much abnormality. Perhaps we are used to it. Before the United States negotiated, it must be on the list of “routines.” But another important reason is that these companies all said that their overseas business accounted for a small proportion, and the chip and operating system have also been filed for a long time, so the impact will not be great.
When we don’t mess around ourselves, we can see more clearly the logic behind the actions of a series of American initiatives.
The unicorns of computer vision, why do you compare basic science and facilities?
On the list of entities in the United States, we can see such a series of names: Before the HKUST, the contempt, the business soup, there were such computing companies as Zhongke Shuguang, and before, there were a series of Huawei-related enterprise. Before Huawei, we can also see a series of research institutions such as universities, super-computing centers, physical/aerospace/aerodynamics.
It is not difficult to find that the list of entities in the United States is not for income, but for restricting development. It can even be said that the current results are destroyed by breaking the chain of technology cooperation.
It can be seen that in this series of fields, the United States has already felt the threat from China. This includes basic sciences such as physics, as well as aviation, super-calculation, and 5G, which are directed at the future development infrastructure. It is not difficult to understand that in the context of the game of big countries, the scientific research strength of both sides is like the hand placed on the table, how the hand affects the order of the future world. What’s more, the United States has already experienced a backward sense of crisis on 5G, and naturally it will take restrictions.
In contrast, this time the AI companies were selected to be quite interesting. Compared with the list of physics and aerospace, these AI companies that focus on computer vision algorithms seem to be too “light”, and compared to research institutions and universities, this time, many of the listed companies have emerged in recent years. Unicorn business.
Can cause such a high degree of attention in the United States, can not help but be confused, especially in a series of technologies related to AI related voice, data, knowledge maps, etc. Why does computer vision become the “eye in the eye” of the United States?
Where does the United States’ jealousy of computer vision in China come from?
First of all, we have to answer a question. Is Chinese computer vision for the United States really threatened?
In the face of this problem, we can give a positive answer from the following aspects.
First of all, the innovative strength of Chinese enterprises in AI technology has gradually emerged. Take the face recognition, a widely used category in computer vision, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 2018 global people. The face recognition algorithm test results show that only two of the top 11 companies are from the United States, and the rest are from China, Russia and Lithuania, among which Chinese companies have also taken the top five. At last year’s CVPR, Apple and Google sponsored a binocular camera image analysis competition under different lighting conditions. The winner was China National University of Defense Technology.
At the same time, China also provides a better development soil for computer vision. In addition to having a good mobile Internet foundation, and allowing everyone to use mobile phones to use computer vision technology, the face collection policy that has been implemented has allowed related technologies to enter more public service areas. At the same time, China’s support for academic research is relatively greater. Between 2007 and 2017, AI research papers participated or supported by the Chinese government increased by 400%, but in the United States, the number of papers supported by enterprises is the government’s seven. Times.
The rest, there are a lot of details. For example, Chinese companies are almost radically pushing this technology, and the close links between computer vision and war weapons, autonomous driving, and other key areas, as well as the deeper language domain than nationalities, computer vision is more convenient on a global scale. Spread within the cover.
Under this situation, it is almost inevitable that the United States will be wary of the development of computer vision in China.