When the Internet is so developed, the World Internet Conference without live video always feels weird.
But this is the reality.
On October 20, 2019, the 6th World Internet Conference arrived on schedule. Last night, in addition to a photo of Li Yanhong and Ding Lei eating, there was almost no “pornographic photo” about the dinner. This can be said to be an improvement of the World Internet Conference and Wuzhen. In addition, Ma Yun of the idle cloud wild crane also visited Wuzhen yesterday, attended a meeting and changed three sets of clothes. The other giant in the BAT, Ma Huateng, was physically hugged and did not come with the organizing committee. This should be his first time.
On the morning of the 20th, a total of eight guests gave keynote speeches, namely former Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, Director of the Russian Federation’s Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media Supervision Bureau, Alexander Zarov, International Telecommunications Union Deputy Secretary-General Malcolm Johnson, Internet Internet Hall of Fame, Internet2 Senior Advisor Steve Wolf, Baidu Founder, Chairman and CEO Li Yanhong, Microsoft Global Executive Vice President Shen Xiangyang, Qualcomm Executive Vice Mr. Alex Rogers, President and President of Technology Licensing, and Lu Qi, CEO of YC China and founder of YC China.
In particular, Li Yanhong, who can make a keynote speech at the main forum in the morning, is not easy for him and Baidu. At present, the argument that ATM replaces BAT is rampant. Baidu’s market value has fallen out of the top five listed Internet companies in China. The market value is only 36.2 billion US dollars, less than one tenth of the market value of Alibaba and Tencent. It was even squeezed by the US Mission, JD.com, and the Netease.
However, from the surface of Li Yanhong, it seems that he does not see any worry or anxiety.
In the keynote speech, when Li Yanhong talked about the digital economy, he created the concept of “smart economy.” He said: “Today has entered a new stage of intelligent economy with artificial intelligence as the core driving force.” In essence, it is to preach the core competence of Baidu: artificial intelligence.
Li Yanhong, who has participated in the past six years, has been promoting artificial intelligence almost every occasion since 2016. He tries his best to make himself look forward to the frontier and technology, and even cut himself and the PC era very early to say that he is artificial. Smart companies say that the next scene of the Internet is artificial intelligence.
But there will be side effects. Tiger Sniff once thought in the article “Artificial Intelligence Company is worthless” on September 13, 2019: “The artificial intelligence research and development investment is huge, the landing scene is limited, and it is unable to make ends meet. In the year, I found that I am not worth the money, and the valuation is related to the delivery of the mobile phone.There is no way to compare it with companies that rely on price-earnings ratios and market-to-dream rates.
However, Li Yanhong firmly said in his speech: “Technological innovation is a great adventure. We pay a hundred times of effort and gain ten times the advantage to be one step ahead. But bold innovation is better than mediocrity, all create business. Miracle companies are all because they are different from each other. It also seems to be a response to the recent swearing of Baidu (declaration war).
Talking about the smart economy, he believes that technological innovation is the background of the smart economy, and said that it will bring about major changes and impacts at three levels, namely, the transformation of human-computer interaction and the provision of IT infrastructure. The layer brought about tremendous changes and spawned many new formats.
On such an important occasion, Li Yanhong certainly cannot waste the opportunity to promote his core business.
For example, when talking about human-computer interaction, he said: “If the past 20 years are the 20 years of people’s reliance on mobile phones, then the next 20 years will be 20 years of people’s gradual decline in mobile phone dependence.” Crazy push his family’s small smart speakers.
Talking about search, he said: “The future search form will continue to change, but its market size is probably far greater than many people imagine!”
Talking about the new format, he said: “Baidu’s self-driving taxi team started trial operation in Changsha in September. In the urban area of more than 100 kilometers, ordinary citizens can use the App to call autonomous vehicles.” /p>
“Artificial intelligence will not only destroy human beings, but will make people get ‘eternal life’.” Li Yanhong said that he is an optimist of artificial intelligence. “In the future, every ordinary person can achieve spiritual permanence and soul forever.” .”
The following is the full text of Li Yanhong’s speech:
All the guests, everyone!
This is my sixth consecutive year to participate in the Wuzhen World Internet Conference. The annual World Internet Conference has become a window into the global digital economy. What will we see through this window? We will see that in the context of the uncertain global economy, the digital economy is very important for driving the global economic recovery; we will see that technological innovation will be a strong driving force for a new round of economic growth. .
I recently saw a report saying that China’s digital economy reached 4.7 trillion US dollars in 2018, maintaining the status of the world’s second-largest digital economy, with a growth rate of 17.5%, which is much higher than GDP. speed.
The digital economy has experienced the invention and popularization of PCs, the PC Internet, and the mobile Internet. Today has entered a new stage of intelligent economy with artificial intelligence as the core driving force, smart economy Bringing new vitality to the global economy is the core engine that will drive the global economy back up. So what parts of the smart economy include, and what opportunities will it create? I believe that the intelligent economy driven by artificial intelligence will bring about major changes and impacts at three levels.
The first is the transformation of human-computer interaction.
If the past 20 years are the 20 years of people’s reliance on mobile phones, then the next 20 years will be the 20 years of people’s reliance on mobile phones. In the era of smart economy, smart terminals will far exceed the scope of mobile phones, including smart speakers, various wearable devices, ubiquitous smart sensors, etc., and the form of applications and services will change accordingly. People will communicate with machines and tools in a more natural way.
Even the search that everyone uses every day will have great potential in the era of artificial intelligence. In the past search, we were a question for 10 links and the users went to choose. In the era of artificial intelligence, the artificial interaction platform has been far more than a mobile phone. Many platforms have no screen. Search must evolve to intelligent search and give the only answer. The first satisfaction rate of Baidu Smart Search rose from 36% to 41% in 2018, and today it is about 51%. That is to say, to everyone Baidu today, more than half of the questions can directly get the only answer.
In the future, if 99% of users’ questions can be satisfied with one search result, the search will not be limited to the search box, not limited to devices, nor to the screen, the search will become ubiquitous and ubiquitous. So there was a discussion before: Will future search be unimportant? My answer is: The future search form will continue to change, but its market size is probably far beyond the imagination of many people!
Our small-scale home, in the cloud-based voice interaction, makes it easy for the elderly and children who used to use the mobile phone before, it can do a lot of things, in addition to playing music can also broadcast video, watch live, listen Story, check recipes. We are constantly innovating in technology to make smart speaker interactions easier and easier to use. Recently, small-sized smart speakers can be awakened with eyes, as long as the eyes are staring at the small speakers to wake up; we also introduce gesture interaction, as long as the gestures can be awakened by a certain gesture.
Second, the smart economy will also make a huge difference to the IT infrastructure layer.
The traditional CPU, operating system, and database will no longer be in the center of the stage. New AI chips, convenient and efficient cloud services, various application development platforms, open deep learning frameworks, and general artificial intelligence algorithms will become The new infrastructure of this era.
As an artificial intelligence platform company, Baidu has invested a lot of time at this level, and the amount invested is also very large, which is also the fulcrum of our artificial intelligence strategy. Baidu’s brain and flying paddle deep learning framework are all laid out at the infrastructure level. The opportunities at this level are equally great, but I will not talk about the time relationship.
Finally, the smart economy will give birth to many new formats.
Transportation, medical care, urban security, education, etc. are rapidly becoming intelligent, and new consumer demands and new business models will emerge. We have seen that artificial intelligence is permeating into different industries and is truly integrated into our production and life. Everyone may have noticed that Baidu’s self-driving taxi team started trial operation in Changsha in September. In the urban area of more than 100 kilometers, ordinary citizens can use the App to call autonomous vehicles. This will not only promote the development of the intelligent networked automobile industry, but will also force the urban transportation infrastructure, especially the software level to be upgraded on a large scale.
These three dimensions of the smart economy are not fragmented, they interact with each other and produce a compounding reaction. Baidu has invested heavily in these three levels and has a dominant position, because our medium and long-term goal is to become the world’s leading artificial intelligence platform company to accelerate the application of artificial intelligence, thus fulfilling our mission – technology Make the complex world simpler.
For example, our deep learning platform flying paddle learning platform is open. Recently, I know that the civil servants of the two poverty alleviation offices in Hanzhong, Shaanxi Province, use our deep learning technology to accurately identify the most urgent need from 200,000 poor families. 2000 families to carry out precise poverty alleviation. The background of the smart economy is technological innovation. Technological innovation is a great adventure. We will make a hundredfold effort and achieve ten times the advantage to be one step ahead. But bold innovation is better than mediocrity, and all companies that create business miracles are because they are born differently.
As for the future of artificial intelligence, there are as many pessimists as optimists. Many industry big coffee people will worry about laborIntelligence will destroy humanity. But my point is the opposite. Artificial intelligence will not only destroy human beings, but will make people get “eternal life.” Every word that everyone says, everything that goes on, even your memory, your emotions, your consciousness, etc. can be stored digitally, placed in a network disk or other cloud, your thinking The way can be learned by the machine, encounter new problems, and restore the reality through technology, and then you can talk with future generations across time and space.
In the past, when we talked about great men, we said that his body may have disappeared, but his spirit will last forever. In the future, every ordinary person can make the spirit last forever and the soul will last forever.
I am an optimist of artificial intelligence. I believe that the development of artificial intelligence is an opportunity that belongs to the whole world and belongs to all mankind. Artificial intelligence will surely make our life more and more beautiful! thank you all!