"Future Forum" set up controversy over artificial intelligence

The "Future Forum" was formally established yesterday with the theme "Index, the technical force leading to tomorrow". At the meeting, the organizers announced the establishment of the Future Frontier Science Award.

At the founding of the Future Forum, top scientists and technology leaders at home and abroad took to the podium: American Futurists, Google Engineering Director Rey Kuzwer (Ray Kurzweil), chief scientist of Baidu company Wunda, president of the General Artificial Intelligence Conference of the United States Ben Gees (Ben Goertzel), Professor Rao of Life Science College of Peking University, Dean of Life Science School of Tsinghua University Shi, senior researcher Wang, Beijing Institute of Life Sciences.

According to the organizers, the Future Forum has its own public welfare properties, the founding directors include Ding, Yang, Shen, Ying, Shong, Deng, Xiaoping, Zhang Lei, Zhang, Chen Yu, Zhang, Fang and other investment sectors, as well as Feng, Lee Bailin and other well-known entrepreneurs, Currently operating funds are mainly based on founder donations and strategic partner sponsorship.

The first chairman of the founding director of the Future Forum, Ding, managing director of Jinsha Venture, said that the future forum could be understood as a platform, a cross-border organization, to connect the mainland, different disciplines, different ages, and to discuss various topics extensively in the field of science and technology.

Zhang Lei, founder, chairman and CEO of Gao Capital, said many young people now want to be stars and financiers, and to create a window for young people with ideas-to use science to contribute to human development-to set up the future Frontier Science prize.

It is understood that the future Forum will hold annual meeting every year as a thought-sharing platform to attract cutting-edge scientists around the world. At the same time, the future forum under the "Understanding of the Future" series of lectures, held once a month. The topic of concern is the change that science and technology brings to mankind in the next 10-30 years, which leads to thinking about the future. There are cool science and technology exhibitions for the common people, closed seminars for scientists and policymakers, and public lectures on the University of High School.

In his speech yesterday, Rey Kuzwer and Wunda all said in their keynote speeches that artificial intelligence would make a huge difference to humans.

Keynote speech

Rey Kuzwer, author of "Singularity Near":

Biological science is a part of information technology

Rey Kuzwer, author of the "Singularity near" book, predicts that the advent of the singularity of the 2045, artificial intelligence completely beyond human intelligence, human history will be completely changed.

In a future forum, Rey Kuzwer The first keynote speech, citing examples of computational performance and annual doubling of data flows, indicating exponential growth in science and technology.

He also mentioned in his speech that the start of the human genome was announced in 1990, when only a very small part of the year was drawn, and the mainstream scientists doubted the process. The first 7 years were 1%, and it took 700 years to complete. "It's a linear way of thinking, actually doubling every year." "Rey Kuzwer said. Until recently, biological science had been used as part of information technology.

He noted that the use of biotechnology as an information technology would make a lot of progress in terms of disease, making life infinitely higher than it was thousands of years ago.

"We have a way to change the genetic code to interfere with it, including switching off genes and adding new genes." For example, many modern people have obesity, we know that the function of some genes is to store heat, there have been animal experiments that the transformation of the gene is no longer stored heat, the result of the animal life expectancy increased by 20%. ”

Rey Kuzwer also said that by speeding up the design of the brain, intelligence and ability can be greatly improved.

"Learning a new language to read a book takes a lot of time and requires a larger cerebral cortex." It's much easier if you can connect to the cloud. Walking on the road to see an important person, only two seconds to greet, with the cerebral cortex to say what, you can find a more sensible, profound greeting in the cloud. "Rey Kuzwer said.

Baidu Chief Scientist Wunda:

I want to redesign everyone's cell phone.

Like Rey Kuzwer, Wunda also has an experience working for Google. He joined Baidu last year and became the chief scientist of the company.

The theme of Wunda's speech yesterday was "artificial intelligence and deep learning". In his speech, he mentions that over the past 15 years there has been a circular view of artificial intelligence, which relies on artificial intelligence to collect and analyze many data to improve the product. However, increased investment, performance improvement is not significant. 5 years ago, the field of artificial intelligence has undergone great changes, which is the rise of deep learning.

The so-called deep learning, is a neural network technology, inspired by the operation of the human brain, the creation of software simulation of neurons. Neural network was established to simulate the pathways and ways of brain neuron propagation.

Wunda said that artificial intelligence is a huge opportunity, so Baidu is a huge investment in speech recognition, a lot of practical voice search is particularly suitable for children and the elderly typing difficulties, "voice search for the average person is also more convenient, but until recently, speech recognition by a very simple software implementation." ”

"We recently decided to take a look at replacing traditional speech recognition software with neural networks. The world moves toward mobile devices, and imagine that we are redesigning mobile products around the voice interface--and that voice will drive the phone revolution. ”

"I want to redesign everyone's cell phone," Wunda said, "It will also change a lot of household appliances, wearable equipment and so on," these devices have too many interfaces, if the use of voice recognition and equipment to communicate, it will be more convenient. ”

Debate

Will artificial intelligence be evil?

Yesterday, a 13-year-old Rey Kuzwer, a small audience in Beijing, claimed to be a fan of the scene. He throws up a question: Will the future world you show be good or bad?

Rey Kuzwer's answer is that, despite the different social and religious ideas, they are making a lot of efforts to make life better and to make people live longer and happier.

He said that while it is debatable whether it is good to live longer, it is certainly good to treat the disease. "It's a positive development for me, it's self-evident. I'm an optimist. ”

Wunda mentions that AI is being "hyped up". Some people say that maybe one day the computer will control the whole world and become an evil robot. (I think) should not appear, neural network is a very good identification, prediction tool. AI technology can also help us to replace the complex labor. ”

However, Rao, a senior researcher at the Beijing Institute of Life Sciences, called AI Technology "pseudo intelligence". "The human brain is the most wonderful object in the world known to us, and we know too little about it. He notes that much of the information about the human brain is inaccurate and even wrong, such as the idea that "the human brain has only developed 10%".

Dialog

Xiaoping: The future is expensive

BEIJING News: What kind of ideas are you holding in this future forum?

Xiaoping (founder of the Foundation): Today enjoy all the happiness of life yesterday is the future, at this moment, we use the mobile phone ten years ago absolutely unimaginable. The reason for this forum is to be able to participate in the promotion and leadership of ordinary people tomorrow, ten years later and the future of life.

Beijing News: The most impressive topic or character on the forum?

Xiaoping: There is a 13-year-old Beijing Eight students stand up to ask questions, with world-renowned scientists Rey Kuzwer calmly dialogue, equal and world authority dialogue. Let me feel the future is around us.

The future of the Internet or machine may be more than today's function, but there is no impressive new generation of words, is still mirrors. I am eager for everyone involved in the development of science and technology, and increasingly confident and active integration into the world of scientific and technological innovation torrent.

BEIJING News: This conference is a link between technological dream and business value, what role do you have as investor background?

Xiaoping: I am eager to find a project suitable for the investment of the Fund by the theory, the supposition, the prophecy and the experiment of the Future forum.

Beijing News: Do not avoid talking about commercial purposes?

Xiaoping: It is not contradictory, now we consciously and unconsciously will the development of science and technology, commercial interests of opposites, resulting in the habit of thinking, which has great harm to the future. The future is not free, it is expensive.

BEIJING News: Have you found any interesting projects?

Xiaoping: Although I say there is business expectation for the future forum, I will not consider the specific investment. My investment philosophy is that investors, who have world-class cutting-edge technology, are not important as to what technology, robots or immortality.