"Internet +" makes artificial intelligence one of the hottest investment areas in 2016

Artificial intelligence, the concept of 60 years since its birth, has begun to receive unprecedented attention under the impetus of the Internet and big data technology.

“Where is the opportunity for the future? I think it is artificial intelligence. Whenever I think of the possibilities brought about by artificial intelligence, I feel very excited.” Baidu CEO Li Yanhong recently held the third world Internet in Wuzhen, Zhejiang. Said at the conference.

"In the past year, artificial intelligence began to emerge from the laboratory professional circle and became a popular topic." Yang Yuanqing, chairman and CEO of Lenovo Group, said that especially AlphaGo defeated Li Shishi to let people see the great potential of artificial intelligence.

"Internet +" makes artificial intelligence one of the hottest investment areas in 2016

In fact, artificial intelligence has become one of the hottest investment areas in 2016. Based on the big data production products, the think tank Wuzhen think tank and a number of media in Wuzhen officially released the "Wuzhen Index: Global Artificial Intelligence Development Report 2016" shows that in 2015, more than 800 artificial intelligence companies were established worldwide.

China has been eye-catching in this wave. The Report shows that in 2015, China's artificial intelligence sector invested 146, more than 2.6 billion US dollars in financing. The number of artificial intelligence related companies and the number of patents are second only to the United States.

Enterprises including Baidu, Tencent, and Alibaba have all mentioned artificial intelligence to the company's strategic level, and many companies have already occupied a place in the field of artificial intelligence. Companies such as Huawei have also said that they will start research and development in the field of artificial intelligence and call it "the most important area in the era of human information."

In the field of artificial intelligence, the most mature technologies are image recognition and speech recognition. Zhang Yaqin, president of Baidu, said that the current accuracy of speech recognition can reach 97% in a quiet environment, and face recognition has reached 99.7% accuracy, which can achieve a more accurate level than the human eye.

In the financial field, artificial intelligence is also widely used in various service scenarios, such as risk control, credit decision, insurance pricing, service recommendation, and customer service. "By using the power of artificial intelligence, we have greatly expanded our range of services, reduced risk, improved user experience, and reduced costs," said a person in charge of Ant Financial.

"In the future, with the advancement of computer image recognition, speech recognition and natural language processing, the form of human-computer interaction will be rewritten. The equipment is no longer a cold machine, but can be heard, spoken, seen, Write, with more and more natural interaction ability, is a little friend who knows more and more and knows you more and more." Yang Yuanqing said.

Lu Min, chairman and CEO of the car home, believes that in the future, car selection, car purchase and car use can penetrate into artificial intelligence. "We now have a business called a car consultant, and the manual will help you, but we have stopped this business and let the artificial intelligence in the future be more neutral and more objective." Lu Min said .

"In the future of the Internet, artificial intelligence will be everywhere." Jerry Kaplan, an expert on artificial intelligence at Stanford University in the United States, said that the more data is invested in a machine algorithm, the better its feedback will be, and the Internet is characterized by Massive data, "Artificial intelligence is like the relationship between fish and water for the Internet. Of course, fish must swim in the ocean."