The whole network unmanned bicycle "Big Bang"

Text / Internet female Chinese paper

Yesterday morning, a rumor about Baidu is developing unmanned bicycles spread to the Internet instantaneously, prompting the major media competing coverage for the first time.

Despite the rumors concentrated in the early morning and morning rush hours, but did not "block" the attention of the majority of white-collar workers, a few hours, paste it, know, microblogging, forums, qq group, bbs, friends circle, everywhere Are all about Baidu research and development of unmanned bicycle news, users discussed enthusiasm quickly detonated by the explosive news.

Midday, reported that NetEase technology to verify Baidu, confirmed the matter. After that, Baidu's research on developing unmanned bicycles was out of control. This hot debate on "Baidu brain" also detonated again, the discussion of wave after wave.

"Baidu brain" hot again

This matter is not related to "Baidu brain"? Is this technology used to replace the human brain with "Baidu brain"? Behind such doubt, in fact, people are full of expectations of "Baidu brain" a conventional thinking path. Because of Baidu brain, so today's Baidu research and development unmanned bicycle move.

Through the screening of the news about yesterday, I learned that the unmanned bicycle that Baidu is developing can maintain the balance of the body without a driver and automatically recognize the surrounding environment and objects through sensors to avoid obstacles automatically. Achieve automatic driving in complex road conditions. In addition to its ability to adapt to complex road conditions, it also identifies its own "owner."

In fact, the reason why the news triggered widespread concern, but also has a great relationship with Google. As we all know, the most significant research achievements of driverless technology is the technology giant Google, but the main driverless project of Google is mainly automobile. Driverless cars have already been introduced in the United States, but have not yet entered China.

The Baidu in the bicycle country research and development of unmanned bicycle, but also for some users that is "more than one move," why, people who do not ride it? In fact, on the one hand, the future of driverless technology can be applied to such fields as transportation, public welfare, commercial logistics, health and environment protection. Relative to cars, unmanned bicycles wider range of applications, even in the indoor, warehouse space to complete the task impossible to complete the car. And more importantly, Unmanned Bike was developed by the Institute of Deep Learning (IDL) "Fencing."

As early as June 2012, when the New York Times disclosed the Google Brain project, led by the well-known machine learning professor Andrew Ng at Stanford University, it was mentioned that there was a deep learning drive to advance artificial intelligence. Andrew Ng used 16,000 CPU cores Parallel computing platform to train a machine learning model called "Deep Neural Networks" (DNN), has achieved great success in the areas of speech recognition and image recognition, which is later known as the "Google brains" .

In January 2013, at the annual meeting of Baidu, founder and CEO Robin Lee announced a high-profile announcement of the establishment of Baidu Research Institute. The first priority was to deepen learning and set up the Institute of Deep Learning (IDL). Three months later, MIT Technical Review magazine ranked Deep Learning as the top of Breakthrough Technology in 2013.

In May of this year, Baidu formally announced the establishment of its U.S. R & D center in Silicon Valley. The R & D center is the person in charge of Stanford University machine learning professor Andrew Ng, the world's top expert in artificial intelligence, "father of Google brain" Wu Ennda. Today, Wu Nanda is Baidu's chief scientist. Not long ago, Baidu's brain "IQ" has been equivalent to the fact that two or three-year-old children not only allow people to see the Chinese Internet company's technical strength, but also through the "Baidu brain" real-life changes in the bit by bit constantly feel the future of artificial intelligence Charm.

As a natural big data company, Baidu already has a complete, leading big data technology. Relying on Baidu's technology genetics, a computer-simulated human brain project based on "deep learning" Baidu Brain is not only the essence of Baidu Big Data Engine, but also represents the level of artificial intelligence Baidu Brain combines the world's leading depth Learning algorithms, data modeling, large-scale parallel GPU platforms and other technologies, all the time to achieve learning and growth, it has 20 billion parameters, constructed from the world's largest deep neural network.

At this point, although we still can not know the specific connection between the exposed unmanned bicycle research and development of Baidu and the "Baidu brain", but it is expected to become the world's first research and development of unmanned bikes in Baidu, let us look again To the Chinese Internet company's technological innovation strength. According to the financial results, research and development expenditures for the third quarter of 2013 were 1.091 billion yuan, compared with 1.644 billion yuan in the fourth quarter of 2014 and 1.277 billion yuan in the first quarter of 2014, exceeding RMB 1.0 billion for three consecutive quarters. Increasing resources and capabilities of the two-way investment in science and technology innovation for Baidu, technology research and development has laid a solid foundation. At present, Baidu R & D investment has been close to 12% of revenue, not only far higher than the industry average input level, but also higher than the proportion of Silicon Valley's leading technology companies.