Tencent plus artificial intelligence BAT open "robot" racing

On March 15th, Tencent announced its three core strategies in the AI ​​field in 2018: first, to tackle “general artificial intelligence”; secondly, to set up a RoboticsX robot laboratory to explore the connection between the virtual world and the real world; , continue to focus on AI + medical development.

In an interview with a 21st Century Business Herald reporter, Tencent vice president Yao Xing stated that the game will be the best scenario for achieving universal artificial intelligence because the essence of artificial intelligence is to use the virtual world to simulate the real world, and the game happens to be Tencent’s best at field.

Therefore, in the research of general artificial intelligence, Tencent will build a virtual world through “AI+Game” and train artificial intelligence in the virtual world to accelerate the application of artificial intelligence in the real world.

Tencent AILab official Zhang Jun told reporters that at present, AI is still a long-term goal, but now, there are a series of short-term problems that need to be addressed in front of Tencent, such as to strengthen the depth of basic scientific research.

Holding hands Nature Group

On the same day, Tencent AILab entered into strategic cooperation with Nature Research, a subsidiary of Springer Nature.

According to the contents of the cooperation, the two sides jointly explored the interdisciplinary and forward-looking research and application of AI+Medical and tapped the actual pain points in the medical field to promote more R&D and landing of AI+Medical products and overcome major medical problems.

Dean Sanderson, Managing Director of Nature Research, told reporters in the 21st Century Business Herald that from the natural index (an indicator reflecting the high level of scientific research output), it can be seen that Chinese scientific research has undergone great changes in the short term. It may not be long before the number of scientific papers in China exceeds that of the United States. At the same time, the quality of research papers from China has also greatly improved.

It is reported that the "Nature" magazine under the Springer Nature Group was founded in 1869 and is an international leading science journal. It is authoritative in natural sciences, engineering, medicine, and other fields. In recent years, many important research results of artificial intelligence have also been published in this journal.

Yao Xing said that the reason why this cooperation is focused on AI+ medical field is because both parties have common goals in solving major human problems such as medical care. In August last year, Tencent released the first AI+ medical product "Tencent Video." Initially, this product is mainly used for the screening of early esophageal cancer, the accuracy rate can reach 90%; now, it can achieve the screening of pulmonary nodules, diabetes, retinopathy and other multi-disease, and in many provinces and cities across the country. More than 100 triple-A hospitals landed.

On November 15, 2017, the Ministry of Science and Technology convened a new generation of artificial intelligence development planning and the launch of a major science and technology project to announce the first batch of national new generation artificial intelligence open innovation platforms. This includes the nation’s new generation of artificial intelligence open innovation platforms that rely on Tencent’s construction of medical imaging.

Dean Sanderson told reporters that he is very optimistic about Tencent AILab's achievements in health care. “Globally, there are many research institutions and academic organizations that are doing research on medical imaging. But from the number of clinical experiments, China is in a leading position and China has an advantage in data.”

“So we are working with Tencent to hope that the two sides can complement each other. We can learn more about the field of artificial intelligence and the impact of technology on society through Tencent.” Dean Sanderson said, “For Tencent, natural science research can connect academics, industry and the public. This will greatly help the dissemination of its research influence."

According to the reporter’s understanding, the two sides will jointly hold the Nature Conference in Shenzhen next year. This is also the first time that natural science research has been launched in cooperation with technology companies for an international academic conference on artificial intelligence. Not only that, but also in 2019 the two parties will collaborate on the launch of NatureMachine Intelligence, a new publication focusing on artificial intelligence.

Turn on robot racing

In the three major strategies of Tencent, the birth of robotics laboratory "RoboticsX" means that Tencent should open up a new battlefield in the field of artificial intelligence. According to Yao Xing, RoboticsX and AILab belong to the Tencent Technology Engineering Group (TEG). In the future, RoboticsX and AILab will become the twin foundation support departments of Tencent's AI industry.

Tencent AILab was founded in 2016 and is responsible for Tencent’s basic research and application exploration in artificial intelligence. Its main research directions include machine learning, computer vision, speech recognition, and natural language processing. At the same time, Tencent’s AILab proposes socialization, downgrading, and user Tool platform AI four application directions.

At present, Tencent AILab has more than 70 scientists and more than 300 application engineers, R & D results have been applied to hundreds of products such as WeChat, QQ and Daily Express.

Choosing this node to set up a robotics lab, Yao Xing said that because artificial intelligence will eventually return to the real world, this requires a carrier to connect. "Computers in the Internet age, smart phones in the mobile Internet, and carriers in the era of artificial intelligence may be robots."

Yao Xing further said that the robot is broad, it may be a speaker, it may be a pair of glasses, it may be a humanoid robot.

A Tencent internal staff told the reporter that although the Tencent Robotics Laboratory has just been created, Tencent's layout in the field of robotics has already begun. Last year alone, Tencent had four investments related to robotics companies.

According to the 21st Century Business Herald, the two other players in the BAT have already had their actions before Tencent.

In January of this year, Baidu Research Institute announced the establishment of "Business Intelligence Lab" and "Robots and Autopilot Labs." At the same time, three world-class scientists in the field of artificial intelligence Kenneth Ward Church, Sui Jun, Xiong Hui also joined the Baidu Institute. At present, Baidu Academy has more than 2,000 scientists and engineers, and has established a lineup of seven world-class scientists and five laboratories.

In October last year, Alibaba announced the establishment of the “Dharma House” to conduct basic science and research on subversive technological innovation. It is reported that Bodhidharma will include Dharma in Asia, Dharma in the Americas, Dharma in Europe, and experiments in different research directions in Beijing, Hangzhou, Singapore, Israel, San Mateo, Bellevue, and Moscow. room.

An insider of Alibaba told reporters that in fact, Alibaba's research and development of robots can be traced back to 2016, when Alibaba and Softbank jointly invested capital to develop a robot pepper. In 2017, pepper's R&D team merged into Ali AIlabs.

According to the data, AIlabs is the internal R&D department of Alibaba which focuses on consumer-level artificial intelligence products. Alibaba launched the smart speaker Tmall Wizard from the department. Prior to this, Alan AIlabs's director, Xue Xue, repeatedly stated that he has a keen interest in all innovative ways of interaction, and robots, which incorporate a variety of interactive forms of products, may also be one of Alibaba's goals.

For the robot field, the successive layout of BAT is bound to set off a new round of fierce competition. But this will be good news for the development of artificial intelligence.

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