Install the large model into the mobile phone, integrate it into the first chain, bring it to the classroom and production line, and empower the ...... of urban managementAt the beginning of the new year, the large model gradually entered the stage of "strong application" from "new products", and accelerated into thousands of industries. How does AI empower people's lives and how does it drive scientific research? How can computing facilities be "ready to use"? Journalists launched an investigation.
Chasing the "outlet" from intensive new to empowering life.
Alibaba Cloud's "Tongyi Qianwen", "Wenxin Yiyan", iFLYTEK's "Xinghuo", Kunlun Wanwei's "Tiangong" ......In 2023, a number of domestic enterprises and institutions will release large language models and open them to the public, which shows the popularity of the track.
According to the data of CCID Research Institute of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, at present, there are more than 19 large language model research and development manufacturers in China, of which 15 manufacturers' model products have passed the record.
With general capabilities such as language understanding, logical reasoning, knowledge question answering, and text generation, these large language model products have continued to expand their user base once they are launched. Within 14 hours of the launch of the iFLYTEK Xinghuo cognitive model, the number of users exceeded 1 million; As of December 28, 2023, the number of users of "Wenxin Yiyan" has exceeded 100 million, and the number of questions has been rising, and it has become the first large-scale model product in China to explore the payment model for consumers.
The dense new large model is being combined with the scene to accelerate the entry into the lives of the people.
Open the live broadcast room, the virtual digital lecturer "Xiaolu" can not only teach 24 hours a day, but also analyze the learning data of students, and provide real-time and personalized feedback and suggestions for students. According to the requirements of voice input, you can carry out diversified creations, this smart mouse launched by Anhui Mimouse Technology, nearly 70,000 sales in 2 months.
In the continuous application and expansion, in the face of patients' questions, the Yidu technology model can take the initiative to ask questions, collect more decision-making factors through multiple rounds of "consultation", and give medical advice, which has been piloted in the field of "Huimin Insurance".
The large model is also exploring and empowering medical record writing, disease feature extraction, and auxiliary diagnosis and treatment plan generation, so as to improve the work efficiency and medical quality of doctors, and further improve the medical experience of patients. Xu Jiming, CEO of Yidu Technology, said.
Deep integration of "vertical applications" to serve the real economy.
It not only enters life, but also empowers all industries and serves the real economy. Up to now, the artificial intelligence model developed in China has shown great application potential in the fields of smart mining, drug research and development, meteorology, government affairs, finance, intelligent manufacturing, and railway management.
Wind power depends on the size of the wind, solar power depends on whether the sun is sufficient, and the "Fengwu" model developed by the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory is allowing AI to be used in meteorology to assist in disaster prevention and mitigation and energy production. "With the use of AI, the effective period of 'Fengwu' has surpassed the best physical models in the past. Ouyang Wanli, a leading scientist in the laboratory, said that not only the recent weather forecast, but also the large model can be applied to industrial-level weather forecasting to serve agriculture, marine, power and other industries.
The real economy is the "big track" for the application of large models. In the manufacturing industry, robots equipped with large models help workers improve efficiency; In the field of transportation, traffic management departments can use large models to optimize traffic flow and road conditions; In the field of drug R&D, large models can help companies accelerate the process of new drug R&D and achieve efficient, innovative, and personalized drug design and discovery through technologies such as natural language processing, knowledge graphs, and molecular modeling.
AI for Science is also the focus of China's active layout. In the first half of 2023, the Ministry of Science and Technology, together with the National Natural Science Commission, will launch the special deployment of "artificial intelligence-driven scientific research", closely combining the key issues of basic disciplines such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, and astronomy, focusing on the scientific research needs of key areas such as drug research and development, genetic research, biological breeding, and new material research and development, and laying out a cutting-edge science and technology research and development system.
At the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Tencent announced the latest achievements of AI for Science, and the "Star Exploration Project" discovered two fast radio bursts from sky survey observation data for the first time through AI, which will help mankind better understand the origin of the universe. "The search for fast radio bursts is a thousand times faster. Wang Yabiao, an expert researcher at Tencent Youtu Lab, said that AI-driven scientific research will break through the bottleneck of traditional scientific research capabilities.
Strong foundation to build a secure computing infrastructure.
Walking into the Lingang New Area of the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone, rows of flickering cabinets are sleepless, and it is SenseTime's artificial intelligence device that provides a steady stream of computing power for large-scale model enterprises.
A large model often mobilizes hundreds of billions of scale parameters, which poses a great test to the carrying capacity and efficiency of computing power. As the "first echelon" cities for the development of the domestic artificial intelligence industry, Beijing, Shenzhen, Shanghai and other places have successively issued support policies, and many measures are aimed at the layout of computing infrastructure.
China Electronics Cloud has invested in the construction of trusted intelligent computing centers in many places across the country. Li Shuchong, vice president of the company, said that artificial intelligence technology is reshaping thousands of industries, and it has also entered the era of intelligent computing at the new infrastructure level, bringing rare opportunities for infrastructure providers to reconstruct their autonomous computing systems.
According to the "China Computing Power Development Index 2023" released by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, China's intelligent computing power has grown rapidly, with a growth rate of 72%, accounting for 59% of China's computing power, becoming the driving force for the rapid growth of computing power.
Shanghai has launched a computing power trading platform and an artificial intelligence public computing service platform to make it more convenient for scientific research institutions and enterprises to use computing power, and issue artificial intelligence computing power coupons and preferential rental services for small and medium-sized enterprises; Guizhou plans to basically build a nationwide computing power guarantee base in 2024, focusing on providing computing power services in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the Yangtze River Delta region; Anhui clearly supports the construction of public intelligent computing centers in cities with conditions and multiple routes and modes, and carries out various measures and ...... such as the collaborative tackling and application of domestic software and hardware for intelligent computing power
Yu Xiaohui, president of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, believes that large computing power and large algorithms to increase data are becoming the main breakthrough route for large models, which puts forward new requirements for cluster high-speed interconnection and large-capacity concurrent storage technology, and the importance of software and hardware collaboration is further highlighted, "In the future, it is necessary to further consolidate the software and hardware ecology of China's artificial intelligence development to support the algorithm breakthrough and application empowerment of the upper layer, and achieve greater breakthroughs in the field of artificial intelligence and high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement as soon as possible." (Reporter: Zhou Lin, Wei Guanyu, Wang Haiyue, Chen Nuo).
*: Economic Information Daily.