In the Sino-US trade dispute, the war without smoke, ZTE has become a new victim. The United States has a 7-year chip embargo, pushing the communications giant to the point of life and death, and also to the upstream and downstream of ZTE. Nearly one million practitioners in the industrial chain have caused a chain reaction.
For a time, the worries of “technical backwardness and being controlled by people†spread, and people were shocked. For a country, high-tech is so important!
From the Sino-US trade friction to the ZTE incident, behind the game between the two major powers of China and the United States, the reason why the Chinese science and technology enterprises are under the knife, this has nothing to do with the status quo of Sino-US science and technology development - unlike traditional industries, In the field of science and technology, China and the United States have their own strengths, and competition and cooperation have long existed.
Especially in the era of the next technology explosion driven by artificial intelligence, unlike the state in which the chip continues to lag behind, the Chinese AI has begun to accumulate after a few years of silence. At the AI ​​track, the Chinese and American operating systems are difficult to win. It can be said that in the future of artificial intelligence operating systems, Chinese companies will not become the next ZTE.
Artificial Intelligence: The next important track for Sino-US technology competition
After the mobile era and the Internet era, mankind is moving toward the era of artificial intelligence. High-tech is of great significance to the economy, the military, and the strategic layout of the country. Artificial intelligence is about to become one of the most important technological advancements in human history. On this track, China has already started from the "backward catching up" and "subject to people" to attack "to keep pace with each other" and even slightly overtake some aspects.
This statement is not exaggerated. Since China has placed artificial intelligence in the highest technology strategy, many technology companies have also joined the AI ​​industry. Baidu, an Internet technology company that directly transforms AI, is the best example. It invests a lot of R&D costs and whole body. The technical research has made Baidu rank among the top AI companies in the world, and the Chinese AI industry has a bit more confidence in facing the challenges from the world.
After years of hard work, in the field of artificial intelligence, there are almost only two major players in China and the United States, and there is a bit of tit-for-tat. In the US technology field, there has been a four-strong pattern of "Google + Microsoft + Amazon + Apple". China has formed a situation of "Baidu + Tencent + Ali + Keda Xunfei".
In the top-level design, both China and the United States regard artificial intelligence as the dominant strategy of the future. They have successively issued the strategic plan for AI development, and promoted it from the national strategic level. In the industrial chain, the United States has algorithms, chips and data. The number of tiered companies is temporarily ahead of China, and both teams from China have begun to gain the upper hand in both the number of AI papers published and the International AI Challenge.
Intelligent Voice: Operating System in the AI ​​Age
Throughout history, we can find that any kind of cutting-edge technology requires an operating system as a supporting platform. For example, in the PC era, Windows can be said to be the only one in the world; in the era of mobile Internet, Android and IOS monopolize the mass mobile phone, and the control of the operating system can be said to be self-evident. Before that, platform technology has been used in the West. Developed countries, especially the United States.
Artificial intelligence also needs an operating system to support. The most important ones are intelligent voice wake-up, natural language processing and other core technologies, Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa, and China has also appeared DuerOS.
Some people have made a horizontal comparison of these three dialogue AI systems. It is not difficult to find that at the level of the underlying technology, platform skills, terminal hardware, application scenarios, partners, DuerOS performance is no less than the other two competitors.
For example, at the core algorithm level, DuerOS covers user portraits, speech recognition, demand maps, knowledge maps, web maps, speech recognition, etc., and has more imagination space than Assistant and Alexa in application scenarios. It is worth mentioning that DuerOS is not only a pure operating system, but also has an application of algorithms, chips, terminals and scenarios at the ecological level, with a more mature ecosystem.
It is true that in the current trade friction between China and the United States, the ZTE incident is not an accident. It can be said that it has affected the deep game between China and the United States in the political arena. It is only for the technology companies in which they need to face competition with an open mind, but also need to master autonomy in core technology. This is a difficult trade-off process.
The achievements of artificial intelligence technology have begun to appear, and commercialization reflects the Sino-US science and technology game.
In the worst direction, the United States encourages local companies to stand on the opposite side of the Chinese market in an attempt to curb Chinese technology companies. But the final result of the matter may not be the collapse of China's science and technology, but the opposite of the United States, incompatible with each other and competing with each other.
The chip has become one of the pain points of China's technological development, and the AI ​​operating system has also experienced a situation that is subject to people. Fortunately, China has already laid a deep foundation in the AI ​​industry, and with many technology companies headed by Baidu, we can say that we are not losing to the United States in the AI ​​operating system, and have the ability to "combat at any time."
We can also see some clues in the commercialization of AI technology. Taking the "high-up" technology of autonomous driving as an example, Baidu's Apollo autopilot platform has released Apollo 2.5 version, with hundreds of partners worldwide, including Daimler Benz, Ford and Bosch. Heavyweight business. Baidu's driverless technology has reached the road standard and can be unmanned on a simple road. At the same time, Baidu also announced that by the end of 2020, Baidu unmanned driving will achieve automatic driving of high-speed and urban roads.
In addition to the smart speakers that represent the future of home development, the United States has Amazon's Echo, and China's Baidu has launched a "small home". American users can use Echo to listen to music, shop, check the weather, etc. A scene more suitable for Chinese users, not only can achieve a series of functions of voice interaction, but also can play video conversations, watch short videos and so on. Even in the close-up awakening rate, the small degree is especially Echo at home.
Ascending to the ecological level, as mentioned above, the dialogue AI system, Amazon for Alexa access to tens of thousands of hardware equipment vendors, including Qualcomm, Intel, Ford, etc., DuerOS behind the small home attracted more than 160 partners The main control equipment equipped with DuerOS has more than 80 models, and there are many well-known enterprises such as Lenovo, Midea, Haier and Xiaomi. The number of device activations has exceeded 50 million. At present, the number of cumulative questions answered by the DuerOS platform has exceeded 2.4 billion. The developer community on the DuerOS platform has also exceeded 10,000.
As early as October 2016, the American authoritative magazine Fortune published such an article "Why deep learning is suddenly changing your life", and selected the four giants of deep learning in the field of artificial intelligence. Baidu is the only Chinese technology selected. Enterprise, alongside Google, Microsoft, and Facebook. The premise of Baidu's giants' benchmarking is precisely a series of core technologies in the field of artificial intelligence, which is worth learning from domestic counterparts.
Baidu’s achievements in the field of artificial intelligence are behind the determination of not to lag behind people in the era of artificial intelligence and to become a leader in science and technology. Only with this mentality can we not fall into the economic and technological disputes in the world. wind.
The "attacking on me" in Go is more likely to describe the current situation of technology companies. The premise of "attacking oneself" is to continuously build core technological advantages and gain a skill in global competition, so that we can check and balance; The intention is similar to “anti-encirclement and suppressionâ€, and actively seeks domestic quality partners to avoid being restrained.
Conclusion
In any case, the pain in the chip field will become a turning point in the development of China's science and technology, changing the current competitive and model-oriented competitive thinking.
It is conceivable that more and more companies will follow the pace of companies like Baidu, invest more resources in technology research and development, and raise the flag of anti-super-character in more fields. In addition, how to establish "technical worship" in the whole society and give more attention to technological innovators is also an important issue that we need to solve.
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