Value and worries: Artificial intelligence has sailed into the fast lane

Mobile data nourishes artificial intelligence, and its heralded business opportunities are being greeted by Hawking's warning that artificial intelligence may end humans.

After entering the mobile internet era, 24-hour uninterrupted online human beings are producing massive amounts of data with their frequent social, consumer, creative and travel behaviors. These data become the most important nourishment of "artificial intelligence", and push the concept of "artificial intelligence", which was born in the 50 's, to the "fast lane" of development.

"Nourishing" the depth from moving large data

"It can be said that the data brought by mobile interconnection, really nourishing the development of artificial intelligence." "Wugansha, director of the Intel China Research Institute, told Outlook News weekly," AI experts.

Examples abound. The latest news from Google this January 15 is that its fully automated driverless cars are expected to be produced within 5 years, and about 100 unmanned vehicles are being tested on the road.

Google for its many years of search engine management, with a large number of data and artificial intelligence team, its efforts to build unmanned cars, through the advanced Artificial intelligence system, the surrounding pedestrians, vehicles, traffic signs, and even "turn left hand gestures," and other "hundreds of goals" and so on simultaneously monitoring, and rapid analysis and effective response.

The argument from Google executives is that the biggest obstacle to the introduction of fully automated driverless cars is more public acceptance.

At the same time netizens will find that they have inadvertently searched for a certain product information will occasionally appear in your later browsing the side of some pages; a 13-year-old Russian computer software, with a real person at the same time to test, even with more than 30% of the answer to cheat the experienced author, for the first time through the purpose of examining the "artificial intelligence "Turing Test.

This news, and Baidu voice recognition system in noisy environment to achieve nearly 81% of the identification accuracy, and so on, was Wugansha expressed as: Artificial intelligence is witnessing the "hockey pole effect" the most wonderful moment-after a long period of smooth, suddenly up and down into the rapid development of the track.

The enormous commercial benefits and opportunities of artificial intelligence are being greeted by the second decade of 21st century, with Hawking's warning that "artificial intelligence is the end of human development" from his frail body and strong brain.

"Large data is an important basis for the rapid development of artificial intelligence, and roughly speaking, the essence of artificial intelligence is a machine learning algorithm based on large data." "Professor of computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, vice chairman of Chinese Information Society of China," Sun Maosung told Lookout News Weekly.

And the mobile Internet is always online, making us "contribute data" to artificial intelligence all the time--Georgetown University professor Leetaru, after examining the amount of data generated on Twitter, has produced a total of 3 billion words in the past 50 years, now only one day, Twitter generates 8 billion words of information, which means that the total amount of data produced today is equivalent to the amount of data produced by the New York Times in more than 100 years.

Business Pursuit brings strong thrust

According to a report from Deloitte, Google in 2014 increased the accuracy of speech recognition from 84% in 2012 to 98%, from 2010 to 2014, with an increase of 4 times times the accuracy of its image classification recognition.

AI is bringing unlimited "money" to IT companies.

Wugansha told reporters, "artificial intelligence Let it enterprises make money too easy, compared with traditional industries, their only cost is operating data." ”

First of all, private custom service can be effectively provided.

Wugansha said that internet companies, it enterprises, the most important characteristics of the user-centric configuration of products and services, but to provide hundreds of millions of users similar to VIP personalized precision services, can accurately describe the user needs is an important prerequisite, which is based on the value of large data artificial intelligence. Otherwise, if you want to make accurate custom service, it means that each user must be equipped with a Customer manager, the cost is not the same.

In the original Microsoft Asia-Pacific Research and Development Group Technology strategy director, the current luxury electric Shang network CTO to Jiangxu, artificial intelligence in the Internet application has three aspects: human perception; provide goods and services and how to match people, goods and services effectively.

Imagine, netizens in shopping, can receive the personalized promotional information of their products through the handset terminal; also be reminded by social networking information that your potential business partner or dating partner is upstairs, and based on your previous shopping and social experience, your personal intelligence butler will even make a list for you to confirm-and such services, There is no "semi-finished intelligent" harassment, but only intimate, will not feel the life is very cool?

Secondly, artificial intelligence is the prerequisite of human "intelligent life".

The "intellectualization" of human life is the interconnection of all things based on artificial intelligence.

"In the Future," smart "is not only a single intelligent service, or a complete, with comprehensive functions of the system, such as smart home, intelligent building and intelligent city. "Frost-Chali Partner, trend prediction expert Savente Singh in his new book" The Big Future: the 10 trends in the age of mobile internet, "wrote.

This is what people often say "intelligent life", Baidu president Zhang called "Internet Physics": The first level is the interconnection of all things, people and people connected, people and machines connected, where there is electricity there are calculations, there are calculations where there is intelligence, there are intelligent places can be connected; the second level is to embrace traditional industries with the Internet, The emergence of industrial Internet or industry internet, business model, product development, marketing and promotion will change; the third level is intelligent work and life.

In the automotive sector, BMW has been able to achieve central information sharing between cars, and car and home communication system is also being established. In addition, Qualcomm's child tracker, smart watch, Google unmanned cars, web balloons, Baidu, Tencent layout O2O, Millet dedicated to smart home appliances, are the internet physical attempts.

The caveat is that although artificial intelligence has sailed into the fast lane, the bottleneck is still to be developed.

"Whether it is Google or Baidu, its current image recognition is still a thick, machine in the learning process to identify thousands of visual concepts are very" powerless ", can not be accurate. Sun Maosung told Lookout News Weekly. This article source: Observation Network

So, into the fast lane of artificial intelligence, in the opinion of the experts interviewed, there is still a long way to go, even for the mobile internet generated by the unstructured data analysis of the effective in-depth study, there is no good theoretical basis to support, with "inexplicable."

Facing the "three big worries"

"In the short term, artificial intelligence can cause millions of people to lose their jobs; in the long run, there may be some sci-fi movies in which intelligence levels are more than human beings and begin to" rebel. According to the development of artificial intelligence, in the near future, machines may surpass human beings who are subject to biological evolution, and eventually get rid of human control. "In a joint open letter, published by scientists, entrepreneurs and inventors led by Hawking," he wrote.

Hawking, one of the most powerful human brains, is so terrified of the fast-growing AI, how do you see it?

"Outlook" Newsweek interviewed experts, the scientists to the artificial intelligence of the hidden concerns summed up three:

The first is the worry of human being replaced.

From the concept of "artificial intelligence" has been proposed to date, the human fear of machine replacement has never been severed, but the previous fears from the simple workers engaged in mechanical labor, and now extended to editorial reporters.

For example, we see a number of daily network news home, many times is the network based on an algorithm to automatically crawl the arrangement, and this work, previously by experienced editors to complete.

The Wall Street Journal (blog, Weibo) has the latest inventory of the top ten jobs in which robots work better than humans, with pharmacists, journalists, lawyers and warehouse administrators, bartenders, soldiers and farmers included.

In this Wugansha, the machine-substituted person was described in stages: the first stage is that those who are repetitive, strong, and do not need creativity are replaced; into the second phase, those that transcend simple labor, but do not require the creative ability to be combined with innovative work, will be replaced by the deepening of artificial intelligence, Such as IBM Watson Robot can design recipes, by machine-arranging "Bach style music" can be the genuine and so on.

"But, for now, pure original innovation, the machine is not." "Wugansha said.

The second is credit worries.

In the future, credit or trust will become a very important capital. "Not just between people, between people and service providers, between people and machines, trust is an important standard for decision-making," Wugansha said, "business decisions too much believe that the data from the machine, resulting in the lack of human judgment, resulting in the human rights are blunt deprivation of the situation.

For example, the bank in accordance with mechanical data indiscriminately deprive a person's credit opportunities, such as the insurance work based on the intelligent model to predict the health of a person's probability, blunt deprivation of some of the people's participation in security rights. What's even more frightening is that there may be a scenario in a minority report like "Captain America," based on an AI model to judge a person's chances of committing a crime ...

When people's credit value is determined by data and algorithms, there is a deep problem of ethics such as machine and human boundary.

Finally, the privacy ethic.

In Wugansha's view, the legal boundaries of large data, privacy issues, artificial intelligence must exist. Data flow, it involves data ownership, privacy, licensing, audit rights, dividend rights, including the legal boundary issues. In addition, there must be a lot of ethical problems when people are not quite sure about the boundaries of their machines.

Firstly, the boundary between man and technology is blurred, which leads to the group loneliness. In the age of the Internet, human society is increasingly being replaced by emails, micro-letters, microblogs, Facebook, Twitter, and so on, seemingly more and more extensive social networking, but it has left humanity in an unprecedented loneliness.

Secondly, the reliance on artificial intelligence leads to the degradation of human thinking and ability. The invention of search engine, on the one hand, makes mankind transcend the limitation of memory, on the other hand, it also strengthens the obstacles of human knowledge accumulation and judgment. GPS facilitates people to travel, at the same time, there is no navigation will not recognize the road "fool-type driver."

What makes scientists, such as Hawking, worried about the future of human "survival crisis" is likely. Simple as a robot nurse may refuse to take medicine for a patient due to a network failure; the machine driver may cause the car to destroy the person because of the computation disorder, the longer-term worry, then is the robot which has far exceeding the human memory ability, after obtains the massive data and the complex algorithm or entrusts with the analytic judgment ability, will become "the heart must be different" "The Non-my race"?

"Artificial intelligence brings advanced productivity and a better life experience, and we can't ignore these conveniences and just talk about the difficulties they may bring." "Wugansha The above worries, said:" I have always believed that the human intelligence has developed to a certain extent, there will be a new solution, and the problem that people must solve now is how to keep our biological evolution ability in a more automation world, how to guarantee our intelligence to further develop forward. ”

(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)