Big Data Change Traditional industries

Absrtact: When Bat (Baidu, Alibaba (rolling information), Tencent) in the Tencent, Ali is around the mobile portal to buy the future, seemingly straggling Baidu, but in the technology to seek the future. Baidu has a brain inside Baidu project, with technical model

When Bat (Baidu, Alibaba (rolling information), Tencent) in the Tencent, Ali is around the mobile portal to the "Buy the Future", seemingly "left behind" Baidu, but in the technology "for the future."

"Baidu inside has a ' Baidu Brain ' project, using technology to simulate brain thinking, now about the equivalent of 2~3岁 children's intelligence level. With the rapid decline in computing costs and the rapid rise in computing power, the brain may be smarter than the human brain in the next more than 10 to 20 years. Yesterday, Baidu chairman and CEO Robin Li said.

"People are accustomed to ignoring quantitative changes, but when they are qualitative, they are caught unprepared." "said Li. His stance is, to some extent, more of a response to recent criticism of Baidu's "lagging behind" in the Giants ' battle.

Think like the human brain

"Now you can see some clues, such as unmanned cars, intelligent robots, you can see a robot in lieu of the hotel baggage to help you carry luggage, a lot of things can now be done." After 5 years and 10, we can see that more things can be done through the Internet, and there will be more fundamental changes in Chinese society. "For the future of the internet, Robin Li predicts so."

Baidu's data show that Baidu's brain is Baidu artificial intelligence products, the integration of depth learning algorithms, data modeling, large-scale GPU parallel platform technology to achieve real-time learning and growth, it has 20 billion parameters, constitute a huge set of deep neural network.

In fact, Baidu's in-depth study of the layout more than a year. At the beginning of 2013, Baidu set up the Institute of Advanced Studies IDL (Cato of Deep Learning), Li personally served as Dean of the Post, the horse to the technical experts in Silicon Valley, such as Facebook senior scientist Xu, New Jersey State University statistics Professor Zhang Yi, Heterogeneous computing experts, AMD, the former chief software architect of heterogeneous systems Wu Yu, "thousand people Plan" national distinguished experts such as expert Yukei.

Interestingly, Baidu's IDL, set up in Silicon Valley, is located near California State Cupertino, just 6 miles from the city's headquarters in Mountain View, and is called the "back garden of Google" locally.

By the beginning of 2014 years, Baidu through the "less handsome program" to recruit talent, for the global recruitment of 9 people under 30 years old artificial intelligence field youth elite, provided by the T9, T10 ranks, which means that the annual salary million yuan start.

Yesterday, Baidu said, in-depth study in Baidu's own products have begun to apply. For example, Baidu's brain has been able to understand voice, image, text form of retrieval requests, based on relevance to do search, and through CTR (AD click) estimates, advertising accurate matching.

The latest development is that through the depth of learning technology Baidu Brain, in the voice technology, the relative error rate has been reduced by more than 25%, mobile search Chinese speech recognition rate of breakthrough 90%; image technology, the launch of the whole network of face search engine, and in the full flow of online advertising Ctr of the estimates have also been promoted.

Big Data Change Traditional industries

Around the world, Stanford University and four technology giants such as IBM, Google, Microsoft and Facebook have set up similar research institutions.

Earlier, Google scientist Jeff Dienne (Jeff Dean) told the first financial daily reporter, Google X, with more than 16,000 processors, 1 billion internal nodes of the virtual brain, analysis of 10 million frames from YouTube random crawl of the picture of the label-free video clips, After 10 days of operation, the brain finally knew what a cat was and found the cat's picture exactly from the next 20,000 images.

Jeff Dienne to this reporter predicted that the machine learning technology in the future will be used to help achieve high-quality speech recognition, practical computer vision, interception of spam, and even applied to the automatic car driving Google.

And Baidu's approach is to open the cloud, Data Factory, Baidu Brain composed of "large data Engine", the large data storage, analysis and intelligent processing, such as a set of core competencies through the platform, interface to open the way.

For example, upload a large number of children's cries, according to the child's crying database to predict possible symptoms, through the user's pulse, blood pressure, ECG and other data accumulation, based on a large number of data to judge or alert users of the disease can be produced, etc.

Baidu said yesterday that its big data engine would undergo a gradual opening, with invitations and free models to collaborate with traditional sectors such as government, non-governmental organizations, manufacturing, healthcare, finance, retailing and education.

These cooperative enterprises and institutions will be able to use the large data structure of Baidu online, processing their own accumulation of large data, at the same time, the integration of large data technology Baidu mining processing, transformation of traditional industries business management, business models and other links.

Yesterday, Fu, deputy director of the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said the two sides will build China's first flu prediction system with big data on the disease control and Baidu.

One Baidu insider to reporters that the traditional industry market space, a large number of industry's single industry output value in the trillions above, Baidu's big data core ability to open the "ambition" is to open up the trillions of industrial upgrading of the imagination space.

But when Ali has approached the market value of hundreds of billions, and Tencent market value in the micro-letter to promote the rising, Baidu still need to withstand loneliness. Baidu still has a huge upfront investment, which has been reported in Baidu's earnings: 2013, Baidu in technology research and development investment of 4.107 billion yuan, an increase of 78.2% than 2012.