Alibaba Cloud released three artificial intelligence products

Alibaba Cloud officially released three artificial intelligence products: image search, intelligent voice self-learning platform and machine translation. The three products are independently developed by Alibaba Cloud and Alibaba Machine Intelligence Technology Laboratory, aiming to provide industry for users in different industries. Leading artificial intelligence solutions further promote the landing of industrial AI.

As we all know, computer vision, voice interaction and NLP are the three core technologies of artificial intelligence. However, the artificial intelligence solutions on the market are mixed, and the three products released this time have already withstood the challenges of the complex business scenarios within Alibaba Group. Customers have a great choice.

Shooting the same paragraph: image search officially commercialized

The image search launched this time is based on deep learning and large-scale machine learning technology. Through image recognition and search functions, it realizes intelligent image search products with map search. The image search service helps users to search for the same or similar pictures based on image recognition technology and combining different industry applications and business scenarios.

Unlike general search, which relies mainly on bytes, image search is mainly defined as "searching by graph", which supports the following two functions:

1. Product image search, by inputting product images, you can accurately find the same or similar items in the product in the product library, and return the corresponding product information;

2. Universal image search, find similar or identical pictures in massive image library by inputting pictures with the same elements or body content.

It is understood that the program includes the latest cutting-edge research results in deep learning, image recognition, and vector search engines supporting tens of billions of data.

It is worth mentioning that this image search technology is used behind the Taobao Polaroid function, and it perfectly supports more than 10 million UVs per day. There are more than 1 billion items in the Polaroid database, and the ImageNet database, which is well known in the academic world, only saves 15 million photos, and the pictures uploaded by Li Tao every day exceed this number.

Intelligent speech self-learning platform: 0 basic training artificial intelligence model

The intelligent voice self-learning platform is a one-button voice intelligent self-optimization solution, which breaks through the limitation of voice recognition optimization relying on the voice provider's expert service, so that those who do not understand the technology can quickly and significantly improve the recognition accuracy of their own business. Business needs.

Traditional speech recognition optimization relies on speech recognition AI scientists. For many smart projects, there are several major problems in this approach: First, the project progress is limited to the resources of AI scientists focused on voice providers; secondly, The number of optimization cycles for subsequent projects is either weekly or even monthly, and artificial intelligence is no longer intelligent.

Alibaba's machine intelligence technology laboratory voice intelligence senior expert Zhou Wei said, "The purpose of the self-learning platform is to provide low-threshold and even zero-threshold intelligent voice optimization platform to people without professional knowledge background, so that our customers get rid of AI scientists. rely."

It is reported that related technologies have been widely used in the fields of intelligent government affairs, intelligent navigation, intelligent collection, intelligent audio, smart home, robot and automatic driving. At this year's Yunqi Conference Wuhan Summit, the "AI Cashier" based on relevant technical training in the PK with the real staff clerk accurately identified the user's voice order in a noisy environment, and ordered 34 in just 49 seconds. Cup of coffee. In addition, the automatic ticket vending machine equipped with this technology has also been "on the job" in the Shanghai Metro.

Machine translation: single-day translation of words over 100 billion

Alibaba Cloud Machine Translation provides a wide range of translation and language services, with high performance and high concurrent services, multi-modal services and other capabilities to help international companies enhance business value.

It is understood that the above machine translation platform has precipitated a high-quality cross-border corpus database, making full use of advanced machine translation algorithm technology and massive data resources, deepening the quality of machine translation and product experience, and actively expanding the product form of machine translation business. Productization of various machine translation technologies, such as voice translation, site simultaneous interpretation, real-time communication and other new products and services.

According to official information, machine translation can translate billions of products per day in Alibaba. The number of online translation requests reaches hundreds of millions of times per day. At double 11, the number of translation requests per second is tens of thousands of times. The number of words translated every day exceeds 200 billion, and according to the data disclosed by Google in 2016, the number of words translated every day is about 140 billion.

At present, the technology has provided machine translation and localization support for more than a dozen lines of business of Alibaba Group, covering Alibaba.com, AliExpress, Lazada, Nail, Aliyun, Youku, Alipay, Rookie, Tmall Elf, Gaode, Flying pigs and many other products.

The most comprehensive artificial intelligence platform

From the perspective of industry trends, cloud computing will be the best landing platform for AI. Alibaba Cloud has been committed to promoting the industrial AI, and has a rich family of artificial intelligence products from the underlying hardware infrastructure to industry solutions. It is the most comprehensive artificial intelligence solution provider in China.

Since 2015, Alibaba Cloud has launched a series of artificial intelligence products, such as heterogeneous computing platforms based on CPU, GPU, FPGA, etc., machine learning PAI platform for developers, and more than 130 models for speech recognition, image recognition and visual recognition. Subdivided products (printed text recognition, face recognition, image recognition, intelligent voice interaction, and natural language processing) can serve application scenarios in more than 300 different industries.

In addition to the above solutions, Alibaba Cloud's ET brain family is constantly improving. At present, the ET brain has covered many scenes such as urban, industrial, retail, financial, automotive, and home. Among them, the ET industrial brain has helped industrial manufacturing enterprises to create billions of profits, and the ET city brain supports the intelligent upgrade of cities such as Hangzhou, Macau and Kuala Lumpur.