At present, as an important infrastructure, key technology, leading industry and enabling engine in the digital economy era, AI has been widely used in automatic driving, smart cities and other fields, becoming an important driving force to improve people's quality of life and promote industrial optimization and upgrading. The report of the 20th CPC National Congress pointed out that we should accelerate the development of the digital economy, promote the deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy, and create a digital industrial cluster with international competitiveness.

Recently, Huang Tiejun, president of Beijing Zhiyuan Institute of Artificial Intelligence and professor of Peking University School of Computer Science, Sun Maosong, professor of Tsinghua University Department of Computer Science and Technology and executive vice president of Tsinghua University Institute of Artificial Intelligence, and Zhou Jingren, chief technology officer of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, visited the People's Congress Living Room column to exchange views on AI industry development driven by the big model.

Big data and big computing power push AI towards the era of big model

From the extensive application of face recognition in daily life, to driverless cars driving on the street, to robots cooperating in factories... Similar intelligent scenes are not uncommon in production and life. As an important infrastructure, key technology, leading industry and enabling engine in the digital economy era, artificial intelligence (AI) has been widely used in automatic driving, smart cities and other fields, becoming an important driving force to improve the quality of life and promote industrial optimization and upgrading.

Recently, industry experts and enterprise representatives visited the video interview column of the People's Meeting Hall on People's Daily Online and said that big data and great computing power have promoted the development of AI to the era of big models. We should accelerate AI technology innovation, build an open source and open ecology, reduce model application costs, expand AI application scenarios, and promote the integrated development of the digital economy and the real economy, To inject intellectual momentum into high-quality economic and social development.

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Huang Tiejun, Dean of Beijing Zhiyuan Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Professor of School of Computer Science, Peking University: After more than ten years of development, artificial intelligence has developed into the era of large models. The big model is an intelligent carrier, and intelligence comes from massive data. Computers have super computing power and can extract intelligent models from massive data. In addition, the progress of artificial intelligence algorithm can train models with high intelligence level. We need to build an open source and open big model technology system, so that more people's intelligence can gather together in an open way, and promote the arrival of an intelligent society faster.

Sun Maosong, Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Technology of Tsinghua University and Executive Vice President of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute of Tsinghua University: The big model and AIGC actually create infinite possibilities for the digital economy. With the help of computers, all information, including text information and image information, can be processed from the perspective of computing, which has a qualitative improvement in depth and breadth. It is difficult to put this possibility into practical application scenarios, which requires hard intellectual work. It is necessary to break the industrial barriers between data and share, utilize and develop data on the premise of complying with national laws and regulations.

Zhou Jingren, Chief Technology Officer of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence: To promote the innovation and development of AI in China, first, it is necessary to provide corresponding computing support on infrastructure, which can provide a larger computing platform for public services, and lay the foundation for the rapid development of AI in China. Second, the model ecological construction should have the goal of open source sharing. We should not only focus on basic models, but also explore the relevant models of each industry, including a series of applications of artificial intelligence, which plays an important role in the development of AI in China. The third is to reduce the threshold of AI use, reduce the cost of model application, and let people from all walks of life apply AI to actual scenarios, so that AI can truly achieve inclusive and innovative development.