Recently, the digital dental intelligent medical service company Weiyun Artificial Intelligence announced that it has once again completed a new round of financing of hundreds of millions of yuan. This round of financing was led by Jin Mao Capital, followed by institutions such as Yimei Investment and British family funds.

Since its establishment, Weiyun has relied on the advantages of its entire network of intelligent dental medical service models and all independent research and development of flexible smart factories, with robots and artificial intelligence technologies as the core, and reshaping the upstream and downstream ecological chain of digital dentistry through efficiency improvements and cost reductions . The digital customized dental service process provided by Weiyun is divided into three stages: front-end clinic-cloud brain-back-end smart factory, and a variety of algorithms and intelligent software are applied in each link to form a complete closed loop. It has created technical barriers centered on “device, cloud, factory, and law”, and has a total of hundreds of invention patents and soft works. It uses AI to create structural advantages and breaks through the core pain points commonly faced by the industry.

The World Health Organization (WHO) lists oral health as one of the top ten standards of human health. For a long time, the prevalence of oral diseases in my country is very high. Almost everyone has different degrees of cavity disease problems, and the rate of consultation is extremely low. In particular, the prevalence of dental caries in children, middle-aged and elderly people in my country is very high. In 2008, my country’s dental medical service market has reached 20 billion yuan. In 2011, the scale of my country’s dental service market reached 32 billion yuan. By 2013, the scale of my country’s dental service market was close to 50 billion yuan. By 2016, the scale of my country’s dental service market reached 78.3 billion yuan. As of 2017, my country’s dental service market has reached 88 billion yuan, and my country’s dental medical service market will exceed 100 billion yuan in 2020.

Xiou.com believes that with the development of China’s economy and the improvement of people’s health awareness, the demand for oral medical services has increased rapidly. In recent years, with the continuous promotion of oral health, my country has entered an aging society, and medical demand will continue to rise. As a pioneer in exploring medical artificial intelligence, Weiyun has launched products born in fully automated smart factories, and the future can be expected.

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AIED is the top international conference in the field of educational applications. It is organized by the International Association for Artificial Intelligence Education (IAIED). It is famous for “providing high-quality research intelligent systems and cognitive scientific methods for the field of educational computing applications”. The included papers are representative The latest development direction and level of artificial intelligence in the field of education applications. The five papers included this time are based on the results of NLP and multi-modal learning research based on real application scenarios in the future, and are implemented in specific businesses, covering composition correction, automatic problem solving, teaching behavior analysis, teaching quality evaluation, and teacher Personalized matching and other topics.

Breakthroughs in the field of NLP and multimodal learning, Implement multiple teaching scenarios

There is a huge difference between the teaching scene of online education and traditional offline education. Many teachers are accustomed to face-to-face teaching to students in offline classrooms. When facing the cameras of computers and other equipment, they are often inexperienced and it is difficult to fully control the classroom. They often miss or miss the best time to issue teaching instructions, such as encouraging students, Remind students to take notes, etc. Good Future AI Research Institute hopes to use an automated system to capture important teaching instructions and provide feedback to help improve teachers’ online teaching level. This idea is implemented in the “Multi-Task Learning based Online Dialogic Instruction Detection with Pre-trained Language Models” included in AIED2021. The teaching proposed in the article The instruction detection method has been launched and applied to the GodEye classroom quality detection system developed by Haowei to provide detection services for online teaching behaviors.

In the GodEye system, the performance of teachers and students in the classroom can be presented digitally, the overall course quality, the teaching situation of teachers and the learning state of students can be quantified, the classroom can be disassembled with data indicators, and the full-link management of the online classroom can be realized.

GodEye classroom quality inspection solution system structure GodEye has been widely used in Xueersi one-to-one business. During the 2020 epidemic, it will cumulatively analyze more than 4.6 million hours of online courses to provide underlying data support for improving the quality of teaching. After connecting to the system, the situation of teachers making timely teaching instructions in online courses has been improved. Taking the important teaching instruction “remind students to take notes” as an example, sampling analysis shows that as the number of days of use increases, teachers remind students to take notes. The number of times has gradually increased, effectively ensuring the quality of online teaching. The research results have made many firsts, accurately matching the needs of teachers and students It is reported that Good Future’s papers selected for this conference have created multiple industry firsts: for the first time, the teacher-student matching model under the online one-to-one teaching mode is modeled, and the history of class information and class behavior of analysts is used for each student. Match the right teacher accurately. With the blessing of AI technology in the future, it will be possible to achieve precise matching of teachers and students in the future, and customize personalized courses with “thousands of people and thousands of faces”, accelerating the arrival of the era of teaching students in accordance with their aptitude. For the first time, Good Future also proposed an automatic evaluation method for key writing based on machine reading comprehension. Through machine reading, it can comprehend the title and composition, output the writing score, and can also display the key points in the student’s composition. In this way, students can understand which way of writing is correct in order to maintain good writing habits. At the same time, this method can also tell students which points are not responded to in the composition, help students avoid problems and improve methods, and improve writing skills and abilities. The traditional automatic scoring method can only provide a total score at the content level. Detailed special feedback requires the introduction of manual labor. In comparison, the new technology of the future can provide users with more feedback information and accelerate the feedback process. The research results have been used in the automatic composition scoring of English composition correction projects. Five years of sharpening a sword, good future AI achievements are outstanding Good future’s research results in the field of AI research stem from its understanding and attention to AI+ education. In recent years, Good Future has continuously increased its investment in AI research and development. At present, it has focused on the needs of education scenarios. It has accumulated research and development including 8 types of images, voice, data mining, natural language processing, etc., and more than 100 AI capabilities, creating more than 10 items. AI solutions are used in education scenarios, covering all teaching links of “preparation, teaching, practice, examination, evaluation, and management”. At present, Good Future has also commercialized a number of AI capabilities and widely used them in a number of internal businesses. For example, Good Future’s Chinese and English composition correction program can not only assist in checking and correcting grammatical errors, and help teachers improve the efficiency of correction, but also help students check the composition and quickly give the result of composition correction, which has become an industry benchmark. Introduction to Chinese and English composition correction function Good Future attaches great importance to technology research and development and the construction of the underlying scientific research capabilities, while not forgetting the original intention of “making education better”. It has established close industry-university-research cooperation with Tsinghua University, the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and other famous universities and Dozens of academic achievements of the students were selected into top international academic conferences such as ICASSP, NeurIPS, AAAI, WWW, EMNLP, AIED, NCME, etc. In the launch event of the Beijing National Artificial Intelligence Innovation Application Pilot Zone that just ended, Good Future served as the vice chairman unit of the Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance, and as the only vice chairman unit from the education technology industry was invited to attend, shouldering the responsibility of advancing artificial intelligence. Industrial coordination and ecological construction will fully support the sustainable and healthy development of Beijing’s artificial intelligence industry. As the contractor of a new generation of artificial intelligence open innovation platform in the smart education country, Good Future will continue to adhere to the principles of source innovation, application-driven, and open sharing, assume the responsibility of promoting the integrated development of AI + education, and work with industry partners to help the education industry to become intelligent upgrade

Nowadays, many 80/90s are already parents, and their children have reached the age when they start to use learning machines. Some parents may be more reluctant to such products because of their own experience.

However, there are still many people around who have bought learning machines for their children. Among them, iFLYTEK’s smart learning machine has become the first choice of most parents. This makes people start to wonder, is the current learning machine really helpful for children’s learning?

Only by rejecting games can you learn efficiently

When I learned that everyone was using the learning machine, I didn’t believe it too much. After all, I myself grew up playing with the learning machine. But after I had a deep understanding of this product type, my views on it have changed a lot.

Take X2 Pro’s intelligent learning machine X2 Pro as an example. Parents can actually grasp the student’s usage, what knowledge points they have learned, and what weaknesses they encounter, they can check it at any time, and understand their children’s learning status anytime, anywhere. Parents are most worried about using the learning machine to play games. In the iFLYTEK smart learning machine, there is no game available in the application market. The installation of third-party apps also requires parental authorization, and the available time period can be set to prevent children from using it for a long time. .

In this way, the worries of using the learning machine to play games are completely eliminated, and the learning machine returns to its original function-as a companion and tutor. Because of this, learning machines are getting more and more attention from parents. In order for their children to learn better and more effectively, the number of families buying learning machines is increasing by multiples in recent years. During the 618 period of this year, this kind of products also ushered in a sales peak. As the intelligent hardware of Xunfei, which has won the championship for many years, the sales of AI+ learning products have increased by 706% year-on-year! A variety of products such as iFLYTEK’s smart learning machine and iFLYTEK’s scanning dictionary pen have become hottest models in the smart learning category, and have been widely favored by parents and students. As we all know, both domestically and globally, iFLYTEK’s voice technology and artificial intelligence are among the best. In recent years, iFLYTEK is working hard to transform these invisible technologies into products that users can use every day. Just as Zhao Xiang, Executive Vice President of the Consumer Business Group of iFLYTEK, said at the iFLYTEK Consumer Business Media Salon in May: “From technology to products, we can make AI products with warmth and let the whole Consumers all over the world share the value of AI.” During the 618 period, iFLYTEK was undoubtedly a success to achieve such results. Of course, it is obviously not enough to simply refuse the learning machine of the game. The intelligent learning function of iFLYTEK has won the favor of parents. There is a more important reason: teaching students in accordance with their aptitude. Artificial intelligence and teaching students in accordance with their aptitude Teaching students in accordance with their aptitude is a generally recognized teaching principle in the field of education, which is to formulate targeted teaching methods according to each student’s learning situation and their own characteristics. As Xunfei’s leading C-end hardware product in the education field, X2 Pro’s smart learning machine X2 Pro is the product that best reflects this. Looking at the learning machines of other brands on the market, most of them use a massive question bank according to the age of the students to allow students to repeat the questions. Although they also provide ways to understand the questions and related knowledge points, they are still mechanical learning, for a long time. “Fuck duck”, students naturally lose their subjective initiative, and the learning effect is greatly reduced. The X2 Pro intelligent learning machine X2 Pro not only provides all the courses from elementary school to high school, its essence lies in its built-in personalized precision learning system, through the use of iFLYTEK’s accumulated experience in the field of artificial intelligence for many years, the use of AI intelligent high-tech With the education big data technology to analyze the dynamic data of the teaching process, students can know which knowledge points they have already mastered and which knowledge points need to be strengthened during the use process, so as to carry out targeted improvement. By constructing a knowledge map, accurately hitting the students’ bonus points, it not only meets the needs of burden reduction, but also does not allow students to miss knowledge points, provides differentiated teaching programs, and truly realizes teaching students in accordance with their aptitude. The iFLYTEK Scan Dictionary Pen is a product for English learning. It can not only quickly check the pronunciation and interpretation of new words, but also voice translation, follow-up evaluation, and induction of new words, so that students can effectively memorize new words in listening, speaking, reading, Remember the whole process can provide help, is a good partner for learning. Recently, it has been reported that the state will strictly control off-campus training institutions during winter and summer vacations. Training institutions such as New Oriental and Xueersi have also been named by the Board of Education many times. These are all because learning has become a burden for many students, and this set of teaching programs in accordance with their aptitude by Xunfei avoids the tactics of questioning, by cultivating interest in learning, and accurately targeting students’ weaknesses in (knowledge), so that students can guarantee more Efficient learning process will naturally have better results. As mentioned in the internal letter issued by Chairman Liu Qingfeng on the 22nd anniversary of iFLYTEK’s establishment earlier this month: “Whether our system can meet the essence of value creation depends on whether we can truly teach students in accordance with their aptitude in the main campus. Reduce the burden on teachers and students”. “Our teaching in accordance with their aptitude is to strengthen the value of the main position of school education, assist teachers and students to return to school, do a good job in teaching within a limited time, free up children’s time, and allow children to learn independently with the help of intelligent learning machines.” And teaching students in accordance with their aptitude through artificial intelligence technology is very beneficial to students. According to the data released by Xunfei, in the first half of this year, Xunfei’s education business C-end products have been in the leading position in the industry, with a business growth of about 70%, of which the learning machine category has reached an increase of 200%. This is all thanks to the strong product strength and the educational philosophy of teaching students in accordance with their aptitude, allowing students to learn more efficiently and parents more at ease. Xunfei can achieve such success, not only relying on these consumer-oriented C-end products, in order to better serve teachers and students, Xunfei has also established a big data personalized teaching system-Zhixuewang, plus IFLYTEK’s smart education products are currently used in more than 38,000 schools across the country, serving more than 100 million teachers and students. Through in-depth mining of these data, iFLYTEK can help teachers in these schools provide more accurate lesson preparation and education programs, and students can also obtain a learning method that is more suitable for them. Continue to lead the office track Although iFLYTEK’s achievements in the education field are impressive enough, in the office field, it can be said to be steady and steady. After all, iFLYTEK’s product lines such as smart recorders, office notebooks, and translators have repeatedly won the sales champions. It is very rare to maintain such results. For example, the voice recorder series include entry-level voice recorders H1 and SR302, and flagship large-screen smart voice recorders SR502/SR702, plus the tape-shaped A1 and the full business range B1. From different price points, Covering the needs of different users, the seemingly simple function of recording to the extreme. Coupled with iFLYTEK’s own powerful voice recognition capabilities, it can directly output text, which is convenient for post-processing and editing, and it will naturally be able to win the title of Tmall and Jingdong dual platform for many years. The smart office notebook has many functions such as voice recognition and handwriting recognition. Backed by iFLYTEK’s powerful artificial intelligence technology, it is more important for professionals, especially leaders and executives who need to frequently conduct business meetings and other formal occasions. The iFLYTEK smart mouse series can well solve the text input requirements. It not only can accurately input Mandarin, but also supports English and 23 Chinese dialects. The voice input can reach 400 words per minute, and the accuracy rate exceeds 98%. For daily needs, a large amount of input For people with text, it can greatly improve office efficiency. The iFLYTEK translator, which has been “out of the circle” repeatedly, also became a hot product during the 618 period, because it jumped out of the limitations of the office field and can also provide a great help in life. It has appeared in variety shows and hit dramas such as “Chinese Restaurant” and “Take Dad to Study Abroad”. It can be used in many life scenes such as foreign trade, travel, cross-border exchanges, and online shopping. At last month’s Consumer Expo, the new generation of products-Xunfei dual-screen translator is even more popular, integrating speech recognition, machine translation, OCR text recognition, multi-microphone noise reduction, etc. With many technologies in one, while improving the accuracy of translation, it also pioneered the use of front and rear dual-screen designs to make the translation more elegant and efficient. These achievements are also the results of iFLYTEK’s persistence in technological innovation for many years and the transformation of technology into products. AI empowers, creating smart products with temperature In fact, during the 618 period, iFLYTEK’s sales data was just a microcosm. Since its establishment in 1999, iFLYTEK has been committed to core technologies such as speech technology and machine learning, and actively promoted the development and implementation of artificial intelligence products. It has obtained good results in many international evaluations such as machine translation, graphics recognition, and knowledge graphs. The achievements of the company, especially in the current environment, the AI+ education field is a blue ocean, and iFLYTEK’s years of technology precipitation will now be the best opportunity. Under the core concept of “teaching in accordance with their aptitude”, iFLYTEK has built a full-scenario smart education product system of “teaching assessment management”. Through artificial intelligence and machine learning technology, combined with the massive data accumulated by Zhixue.com and smart education products, it provides teachers, students and The school administrator provides accurate and convenient services. HKUST IFLYTEK has also conducted in-depth cooperation with the Examination Center of the Ministry of Education, Northeast Normal University, the High School Attached to the National People’s University, Beijing No. 12 Middle Schools, and schools, and has made systematic efforts in technological innovation and product implementation. “It’s not technology, but products that change the world.” Xunfei has also gradually transformed the technological strength accumulated over the past 20 years into products that consumers can really see and touch, and that really makes consumers convenient. It is what iFLYTEK has been doing. It is precisely because of this that Xunfei’s consumer business can maintain a rapid annual growth rate of 30%, and most of the main purchasers come from individual consumers rather than large-scale purchases by institutions. It can be seen that Xunfei’s products are truly impressive. To consumers, it really brings convenience to people’s life and work. Artificial intelligence hardware such as translators and learning machines are still emerging categories at present, unlike traditional products such as mobile phones and computers, users also need to cultivate user habits. However, many of Xunfei’s products have received very good market feedback in recent years. Consumers are willing to try new things, and the actual use of these products is the best result. “Through technology, customers can perceive the existence of artificial intelligence more intuitively and three-dimensionally, thereby making smart products more warm.” As Zhao Xiang said, iFLYTEK has integrated artificial intelligence into these smart hardware instead of staying at it. The superior technology brings products that users can really perceive, which is different from traditional hardware products. Perhaps this is the biggest change of the “technical” iFLYTEK in recent years

In fact, drug delivery is also a very important issue in the chain of new drug development. Especially when we use drugs developed using advanced molecular biology strategies, such as macromolecular drugs, gene therapy drugs, etc., safe and efficient delivery is considered essential.

Moreover, according to NIH data, both large-molecule drugs and small-molecule drugs may have serious side effects due to their interaction with non-target targets. Such side effects caused by off-target severely limit the development of drugs, especially the development of the best therapeutic drugs for cancer, neurodegenerative diseases and infectious diseases.

Therefore, the research needs of drug delivery are urgent and will definitely attract more and more attention. Already, AI biotechnology companies have begun to deploy in this field.

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Solving the problem of drug delivery requires AI technology

At present, the research on drug delivery systems can be divided into four main directions: ①The way of delivery; ②The carrier of delivery; ③The loaded drug; ③The means of targeting.

Among them, the delivery vehicle is an important research direction. More and more clinical studies, and even drugs that have been approved for marketing use viral vectors such as adeno-associated virus (AAV) and lentivirus, or lipid nanoparticle (LNP) vectors. For example, the mRNA vaccine for the new coronavirus uses the LNP vector, and the gene therapy drug Zolgensma for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy uses the AAV vector. However, issues such as the safety of the carrier, immunogenicity, and the ability to load drugs still need to be solved urgently.

Targeting means is another important research direction. For example, how to successfully transport drugs across the blood-brain barrier to the brain is critical to the treatment of brain diseases such as brain tumors, Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease. Moreover, the target requirements of delivery will become more and more refined, not only targeting to various organs (heart, lung, brain), reaching tissue types (muscles, nerves), reaching disease-specific cells, and even targeting The correct structure inside the cell. Such research means that it is possible to accurately deliver chemotherapeutic drugs to tumor cells, which will greatly reduce the side effects of traditional drugs.

Therefore, drug delivery is not only to connect the inherent characteristics of drugs, but also to face the complex problems of multiple variables in different microenvironments of the human body. AI technology has natural advantages in managing big data, analyzing or interpreting complex data. With the development of machine learning, especially neural network algorithms, it is natural for artificial intelligence to participate in research in the field of drug delivery.

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Introduction of domestic and foreign startups

1. Dyno therapeutics

Dyno was established in 2018, focusing on the use of AI technology to develop AAV vectors for gene therapy. In May of this year, Dyno announced that it had completed a $100 million Series A financing. Natural AAV is easily recognized by the immune system, and it does not have specific cell and tissue targeting, so it must be modified before treatment. The traditional modification method is “directed evolution”. Synthetic biologists randomly mutate a certain amino acid on the capsid protein that is in direct contact with the target cell, and then evaluate whether this change is helpful for AAV targeting the target tissue. Repeated iterations Such a cycle of mutation-evaluation-superimposed mutation-re-evaluation. In view of the large sequence space of the capsid protein, this project is arduous and lengthy, the screening ability is far from keeping up with the market demand, the speed of discovery is slow, and the output is also limited. Therefore, as soon as Dyno appeared, it attracted the attention of many gene therapy companies. Novartis and Dyno signed a cooperation agreement to jointly develop a new type of AAV vector for gene therapy of severe eye diseases; Sarepta and Dyno signed a cooperation agreement to jointly develop a new type of AAV vector for gene therapy of muscle diseases; Roche’s Spark also signed a cooperation agreement with Dyno to jointly Develop new AAV vectors for gene therapy of central nervous system diseases and targeted liver delivery. These cooperations are expected to bring a total of more than $3.8 billion in funding for Dyno. Figure 1 The technical process of Dyno therapeutics (source: the company’s official website, compiled by Fengshuo Ventures) As shown in the figure above, Dyno’s technology platform combines machine learning algorithms with biological experiments. First design a batch of AAV capsid sequences, and build a DNA-encoded capsid database after synthesis; through next-generation sequencing methods, the capsid mutations in the library can be tracked and identified; experimentally measured parameters that are critical to successful treatment, such as delivery The five parameters of efficiency, specificity to the target, immune system response, packaging size and manufacturing characteristics; based on these experimental data, train machine learning models to predict the function of the new sequence, and construct a panoramic map of the different properties of the AAV capsid . Continuously looping this process, the panoramic map outlined by machine learning will become more and more detailed. In the end, it can be achieved that for a certain disease, a certain potential treatment method, Dyno inputs the required parameters, and the machine learning algorithm can output the predicted capsid sequence. This is the AAV vector that is expected to achieve the best therapeutic effect. 2. Jitai Medicine Jitai Pharmaceutical was established in 2020 and was incubated by Jingtai Technology, an AI drug crystal form research and development company. As the first AI-driven pharmaceutical formulation development start-up company in China, the company completed a Pre-A round of financing of tens of millions of dollars in December 2020. Jitai Pharmaceutical focuses on drug delivery and formulation research and development, and is committed to using AI technology to solve specific problems in the development of new drug preclinical formulations and drug delivery design to the entire chain of process amplification. It has reached strategic cooperation agreements with Huahai Pharmaceutical and Boten Pharmaceutical . From the establishment of Jitai Pharmaceutical, it can clearly reflect the guiding role of domestic pharmaceutical policies on the market. Centralized procurement with a large amount reduces the profit margins of domestic generic drugs, forcing relevant pharmaceutical companies to find innovative ways, or to develop independent innovation drug research and development with high risk and investment, which may take 10-15 years; or to carry out the second category of preparations Research on new drugs, such as cooperation with Jitai, may only take 3-5 years to enter the market at a lower cost. Therefore, at present, Jitai Pharmaceutical will mainly use AI technology and quantum chemistry calculation methods to complete the development of customized complex formulations for traditional pharmaceutical companies. At the same time, the AI ​​design platform of the LNP carrier was built, with a view to providing carrier services for many domestic nucleic acid drug research and development companies. Concluding remarks At present, there have been relatively many studies on the delivery of traditional drugs in the body using machine learning. In the future, more research needs will focus on new drugs and precision treatments. Nowadays, gene therapy is still subject to the biggest bottleneck-the “vector”. The situation is no different from decades ago. Dr. Jim Wilson, the pioneer of gene therapy, feels “embarrassed” about the entire viral vector research. Maybe it’s because we don’t understand enough knowledge? Maybe it’s because we are not getting knowledge fast enough? And AI technology can bring us more and more effective information from a perspective different from human thinking, improve our knowledge base, promote the development of drug delivery technology, and help all kinds of new therapeutic drugs to achieve their due Good treatment effect. Disclaimer: The above content is for reference only and does not constitute investment advice

HUAWEI CLOUD AI continues to innovate, accelerating industry intelligence upgrades

Fang Fan, a senior planner of Huawei Cloud EI, believes that artificial intelligence has entered thousands of industries and has begun to enter the practical stage. AI has entered the core production system of enterprises and began to create greater value. The overall development strategy of Huawei Cloud AI is to create a full-stack, full-scenario solution for cloud, edge, and end devices, providing ample and economical computing resources, easy-to-use, high-efficiency, and full-process AI platform. At the same time, the latest AI technology and practice accumulation are added to existing products and services, allowing customers to effectively implement AI; and facing the world, continue to cooperate extensively with academia, industry and industry partners to invest in open ecology and talent training.
Fang Fan, Senior Planner of Huawei Cloud EI
In order to be more committed to lowering the threshold of AI development, Huawei Cloud’s one-stop high-efficiency AI development platform ModelArts continues to upgrade and further upgrades its development capabilities: ModelArts CodeLab, which makes AI exploration and learning more efficient, through a large number of course cases in the AI ​​Gallery, which can be connected in seconds. Entry and practice; ModelArts IDE SDKs, cloud on and off, seamless collaboration, close to the usage habits of developers; ModelArts Studio, flexibly develop AI application workflow, accelerate model experiments and deployment iterations, and improve the overall efficiency of the AI ​​application process. In addition, in order to more conveniently implement AI applications, Huawei Cloud provides a unified framework for Runtime Framework on the cloud side, which can be developed once online, multiple reasoning, and real-time model updates and iterations.

In addition, in order to further reduce the difficulty of development for developers, HUAWEI CLOUD has built the AI ​​Gallery community, providing AI assets such as data sets, algorithms, pre-training models, workflows, models, papers, articles, courses, etc. related to many industries and fields. As with scenario cases, there are currently 2000+ AI assets, the most 6+ asset types in the industry. The newly released HUAWEI Cloud Pangu large model with hundreds of billions of parameters is also among them. It extracts and learns common knowledge for massive data, solves the problem of low-cost large-scale replication, and realizes “industrialized” development.

Classics will be passed on forever, and media AI will bring old movies to life

Zhou Suyue revealed that the black-and-white movie “Leifeng” adopts GPU parallel computing and AI iterative optimization and coloring. The self-learning iterative coloring process solves the two major problems of high computational complexity and difficult model building for black-and-white video coloring; further implementation of neural network automatic learning 1. The color timing consistency between frames, 2. The color space coordination within the frame, 3. The color semantic consistency of the object objects to achieve high-efficiency and high-quality AI coloring results. Zhou Suyue, Chief Expert of Malanshan Video Cultural and Creative Industrial Park Based on the HUAWEI cloud platform and media AI capabilities, Malanshan Video Cultural and Creative Park provides computing, storage, network, video media, AI, big data and other capabilities to meet the needs of cloud services in all aspects of video production, production, and distribution, greatly improving Improved the speed of video processing. The Malanshan Huawei Cloud Audio and Video Industry Innovation Center will combine 2021 industrial operations, joint innovation, industrial planning and ecological construction, from building an industrial park to building an industrial intelligent body, through the construction of the entire process of variety show production, the entire process of film production, and lightweight Four production lines for live broadcast and 3D music production lines, two platforms for video cultural and creative talent training and digital asset trading, as well as virtual production innovation, and the entire chain on the cloud, help Malanshan build a highly competitive China “V” valley.

Every second counts for the new crown epidemic, AI increases the efficiency of drug screening by ten times

The speech by Dr. Mingyue Zheng, a researcher at the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, focused on the AI ​​large-scale virtual drug screening cloud service released by HUAWEI CLOUD EIHealth and the drug federation learning service based on HUAWEI CLOUD ModelArts. Dr. Mingyue Zheng, Researcher, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences Based on the HUAWEI CLOUD medical agent EIHealth, Researcher Zheng Mingyue and HUAWEI CLOUD team have carried out a number of AI drug research and development cooperation projects, such as the iPhord algorithm for predicting protein structure from the primary sequence for early research on drug targets, and the AI ​​prediction algorithm for drug relocation , Use the multi-omics automatic modeling tool AutoOmics to quickly discover biomarkers, use the personalized federated learning integration algorithm FedAMP to achieve efficient and safe integration of pharmaceutical enterprise data, and use Huawei Cloud’s automatic AI modeling tool for omics data to accurately predict drug attributes Wait. HUAWEI CLOUD EI Medical Intelligence (EIHealth) platform, based on the powerful AI capabilities of HUAWEI CLOUD AI Ascension Cluster Service and HUAWEI CLOUD ModelArts one-stop AI development and management platform, integrates many algorithms, tools, AI models and automated pipelines in the medical field . Through the medical agent platform, protein homology modeling, molecular dynamics simulation calculations, and large-scale virtual drug screening can be completed quickly, and tens of millions of simulation calculations can be completed in a short time, greatly shortening the screening time and improving drug screening More than 10 times the efficiency.

Intelligent algorithm empowers indoor air quality

Wu Ke, deputy dean of Daikin China Institute of Technology Development, explained how intelligent algorithms empower IAQ to monitor, predict, and control indoor air. Wu Ke, Vice President of Daikin China Institute of Technology Development After the new crown epidemic in 2020, people pay more attention to the indoor environment. Users gradually accept CO2 as an important indoor air (IAQ) indicator. The air retention of CO2 can cause discomfort to the human body and increase the possibility of spreading influenza. In addition, the country’s carbon is at its peak, the carbon neutrality policy is clearly directed, and the company’s energy saving requirements have become a must. IAQ is a highly professional field, and standards and testing methods need to be interpreted by professionals. In general commercial scenarios, there is a lack of professional personnel and effective data detection and control. In order to solve user pain points, Wu Ke led the team and Huawei Cloud EI team to dig deep into IAQ’s reserve technology, through big data and AI algorithms, to achieve air quality prediction, so as to accurately define the time point of the fresh air switch. In the air quality prediction project, the advantages of efficient integration and joint optimization of the HUAWEI CLOUD Pangu large model are used to improve the prediction accuracy and efficiency, and play an extremely important role in the prediction of intelligent control and air cleanliness indicators.

AI enables intelligent transformation of the financial industry

Zhang Song, Director of Huawei Cloud EI Product Solutions, mentioned that the key to the entire financial value chain is how to collect and transform physical world information, how to extract digital credit, and then evaluate financial assets based on digital credit. Four aspects are involved in this process:

1. Efficiency improvement: The difficulty lies in the huge amount of information collection, the difficulty in extracting unstructured data, and the many process breakpoints.

2. Risk control: Fraudulent transactions are grouped, the equity structure is nested, and the credit relationship is complicated.

3. Investing in research and improving efficiency: It involves many data sources, strong dependence on data service providers, and strong data interference signals.

4. Risk pricing: requires strong real-time calculations and high demand for combined pricing.

Zhang Song, Director of Huawei Cloud EI Product Solutions Based on customer demands, HUAWEI CLOUD proposed innovative solutions for the financial value chain: automated smart operation, smart risk control, and smart investment and research. First of all, the automated smart operation solution uses the capabilities of AI+RPA to create digital employees, perform repetitive tasks, and increase service efficiency by 20 times in financial marketing scenarios. Second, the smart risk control solution uses the Huawei Cloud GES graph computing engine and the RTD real-time decision engine to build relationships based on information such as capital flow, transfer records, accounts, corporate information, and industry information, and effectively improve risk control and marketing levels by mining relationships. Finally, the intelligent investment research solution based on the HUAWEI Cloud Pangu model integrates millions of financial news and Chinese and foreign stock data across the entire network, monitors hundreds of commodity prices, e-commerce commodity prices and sales, monitors various risk events, and uses nature. Language processing technology establishes a graph of the relationship between events and securities, and realizes event-driven risk prevention and control and investment opportunity mining.

How Huawei Cloud Pangu NLP Large Model Helps Companies Realize Revenue Growth

Dr. Yang Zhilin, co-founder of Recycle Intelligence, described the HUAWEI CLOUD Pangu NLP large model created in collaboration with HUAWEI CLOUD, which overcomes the problems of traditional large models in commercial implementation, and brings “improvement of employee execution ability in enterprise marketing and communication scenarios”. Solutions for three business scenarios, such as “target customer preference” and “compliance enhancement”, help companies to improve employee professional capabilities faster, find target customers faster, reduce compliance risks, and reshape customer experience And the steady growth of revenue. Dr. Yang Zhilin, Co-founder of Recycle Intelligence Among them, the “employee execution improvement” scenario solution uses the HUAWEI CLOUD Pangu NLP large model to digitally model the real sales communication process, open the black box of the communication process, and help managers to supervise the daily execution of sales staff, and make targeted guide. At the same time, it provides real-time assistance systems for front-line sales personnel to help them improve execution and productivity. The “target customer optimization” solution uses the HUAWEI CLOUD Pangu NLP large model to build an intention prediction model based on the communication dialogue data and the result of the order. Through the algorithm model, the high intention customers in the stock clues can be screened, or the customers who are more interested in a certain product can be screened Target customers, reduce the waste of energy on low-intention leads, and improve the efficiency of sales staff. The “Compliance Enhancement” solution leverages the paragraph-level semantic analysis capabilities of the HUAWEI CLOUD Pangu NLP model to help companies discover potential compliance risks in the communication between employees and customers, and greatly enhance business compliance.

Collaborative deployment of end-side cloud, accelerating the landing of industry AI applications

Finally, Xie Zhouyi, service director of HUAWEI CLOUD EI HiLens, explained how the AI ​​platform of HUAWEI CLOUD can solve this problem through the collaborative end-to-cloud solution. Xie Zhouyi, Director of Huawei Cloud EI Services In the process of AI applications being implemented in various industries, developers need to develop multiple sets of incompatible AI applications based on different platform development standards and interfaces, resulting in a long AI application development cycle and high costs. In addition, how to agile development and rapid deployment of AI applications has become an important problem to be solved in the AI ​​industry. Huawei Cloud’s HiLens platform is the industry’s first end-cloud collaborative AI application development and deployment platform. Based on the three capabilities of the management and operation platform HiLens Console, the development framework HiLens Framework, and the cloud development environment HiLens Studio, Huawei Cloud HiLens supports developers You can quickly develop your own skills without setting up the environment, and can simulate the effect of the algorithm online, and you can also use the rich AI skills preset on the platform. Through the unified development framework of HiLens end-side cloud, AI skills can be deployed to HiLens-supported end-side or edge devices for real-time reasoning. At the same time, it can also be combined with the capabilities of Huawei Cloud Cloud to easily integrate into third-party platform systems to form overall AI Business logic, build smart solutions in urban, financial, park, water, and industrial scenarios, and promote the rapid implementation of AI applications in various industries. Follow @Huaweiyun for more information

On the afternoon of June 21, the Shanghai Municipal Government Information Office held a municipal government press conference to introduce the 2021 World Artificial Intelligence Conference to be held in Shanghai from July 8th to 10th. Zhu Xiumei, deputy director of the Science and Technology Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will continue to work closely with Shanghai and relevant departments to support the World Artificial Intelligence Conference as a top global event in the field of artificial intelligence, and leverage this high-quality platform to further expand its opening to the outside world and continue to open up. A new situation of win-win cooperation in the field of smart economy. Zhu Xiumei said at the press conference that Shanghai has a solid industrial foundation, rich innovation resources, and obvious advantages in artificial intelligence talents, data, application scenarios, etc., and is accelerating towards the goal of building an artificial intelligence highland. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology attaches great importance to and continues to support the innovative development of Shanghai’s artificial intelligence industry. On the one hand, coordinate the construction of a pilot area for artificial intelligence innovation applications. In May 2019, Shanghai (Pudong New Area) was approved to become my country’s first artificial intelligence pilot area, promoting the construction of a pilot area focusing on mechanism reform and innovative applications. Through special funds for high-quality development, support the pilot area to build a public service platform serving AI companies, and support the pilot area to continue to improve the industrial agglomeration effect and enterprise service capabilities. On the other hand, it supports Shanghai to consolidate the foundation for the development of the smart industry. Support Shanghai to build a national manufacturing innovation center such as integrated circuits and smart sensors, and strengthen key common technological innovations in the smart field. Promote the National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund, increase support for key integrated circuit projects and enterprises, continue to consolidate the foundation for industrial development, and provide support for the establishment of a safe and stable artificial intelligence industry chain. In addition, jointly promote the work related to the release of artificial intelligence. Zhu Xiumei said that Shanghai companies actively participated in the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s artificial intelligence unveiling work. After two years of fair competition, many Shanghai companies have performed well and won in the relevant unveiling track. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology supported the construction and opening of a number of artificial intelligence application scenarios in Shanghai, established “tracks” and test environments for the launch of medical imaging and driverless driving, and supported the Shanghai Industrial Internet Innovation Center to participate in the evaluation of the launch project, and actively promote the Shanghai AI evaluation Capacity and evaluation institution building. As for the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, as a co-sponsor, has been fully supporting the preparations for the conference. The first is to organize the key forums of the conference. Organize subordinate units to jointly organize industry development forums with Shanghai Zhangjiang Group, China Business News and others, and invite representatives from all parties in the industry chain to share experiences around AI to empower all industries and promote digital transformation. Organize the affiliated units to host the Trusted AI Forum, invite international organizations and related experts to conduct in-depth discussions on the formulation of governance rules and international standards, and jointly explore diversified trusted AI measures to promote the sustainable development of the industry. The second is to release a series of important results. At this conference, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will combine the new trends and requirements of industrial development to organize relevant research institutions to release the latest research results such as the “Trusted Artificial Intelligence White Paper” and “Artificial Intelligence Data Security and Regulatory Mechanism Research Report” to provide intelligence for the development of the intelligent industry stand by. Third, during the conference, awards will be given to some of the winners of the list to encourage continuous innovation, and the Shanghai Economic and Information Commission will promote the application of outstanding results of the list to form industrialization capabilities. At the same time, he also assisted in inviting key enterprises and high-level experts in the field of artificial intelligence to participate in the exhibition to share the achievements and experience of innovative development.

The book “Fantasy of Artificial Intelligence. However, with AI’s capabilities are fantasies and fears for the future of humanity. The real danger is not that computers are smarter than humans, but that people think computers are smarter than they are, and therefore trust the computers to make important decisions for them, because computers are perfect. They can all make serious mistakes, when the way they process data is not the way humans think. In order to explain thoroughly, debunk misunderstandings, and dispel illusions, author Gary Smith – Professor of Pomona College, USA wrote the book “Fantasy about artificial intelligence”. The book is divided into 12 chapters, including many real-life examples from history such as the 2008 US presidential election, IBM’s AI Watson and many other famous artificial intelligence projects with the aim of clarifying how intelligence works. Artificial intelligence processes information, gives the final result and shows the difference between AI (Artificial Intelligence) and the human brain, thereby showing readers the risks of over-trusting. computer results. In the first 4 chapters, the author has taken a lot of real-life examples to explain in an easy way how artificial intelligence works and how they give the end result. The author claims that robots have surpassed humans in repetitive monotonous tasks, they have better memory, perform more accurate calculations and are tireless. But artificial intelligence is not programmed to simulate the human brain, and artificial intelligence cannot think, reason, and make analogies. Since then, the author asserts that up to now computers with comprehensive intelligence enough to compete with humans have not yet existed. In the next two chapters, by referring to “Data Mining”, it is proven fact that Data mining although there will sometimes be a real knowledge discovery, given the number of explanatory variables The larger the consideration, the more likely it is that a relationship discovered is just a coincidence, of a temporary nature. In the remaining chapters of the book, the author has introduced many computational models in many fields such as finance, politics, economics… to prove that statistical evidence is not enough to distinguish between knowledge real and fake. The computer cannot accurately judge whether the correlation is random or truly significant. That work is only for the human mind. In conclusion, human intelligence works differently from artificial intelligence, so it cannot be said that artificial intelligence is intelligent. Robots excel in memory, accuracy, and endurance, but they still have many shortcomings: they can’t think, can’t make analogies, and can’t distinguish between good-bad, meaningless-meaning data. Humans need computers to process large amounts of information, but also need human intelligence to make final judgments about the results returned by computers. About the author, Gary Smith has been involved in many research projects that highlight the questionable use of data in statistical analysis. He has published 8 textbooks, 7 business books, nearly 100 academic articles and 7 software programs in economics, finance and statistics. In addition to teaching at Pomona College, he is also an economic analyst and consultant. His other well-known books such as “Standard deviation: Flawed assumptions” and “Tortured Data” also warn about the dangers of confusing correlations. and causality in statistical analysis.

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On May 17, the 2021 Sohu Technology 5G&AI Summit was grandly held in Beijing.Tian Feng, the founding dean of SenseTime Intelligent Industry Research Institute, delivered a keynote speech as a guest “The Global Change of AI Ethics” . After the speech, he accepted an interview with Sohu Technology. When the rapid development of artificial intelligence and big data, discussions on data security and AI ethics also emerged. Tian Feng gave a detailed answer in the interview.

Tian Feng believes that artificial intelligence is a tool, and a tool must depend on the purpose and the person who uses the tool. Only when users have values. “We hope it will be used by good people, so our so-called AI ethics is more about letting good people use artificial intelligence, rather than letting evil people use artificial intelligence.”

In order to train artificial intelligence, user data is collected more and more, and many cases of privacy infringement have occurred in the process. Tian Feng pointed out that we must not give up food because of choking. “Artificial intelligence will have various risks. If you don’t use it or study its technology, it will never develop. This will bring humanity to industry regression and development. It will always be a theme, whether it is China, the United States, or Europe.” He said.

In fact, while artificial intelligence technology is developing, privacy protection technology is also developing simultaneously. For example, the federated learning technology proposed by Google in 2016 is one of the most popular technologies for privacy protection in the industry. Tian Feng explained the technology and said, “The data is available and not visible. When I judge whether the data is true or false, I only answer a yes or no, and will not tell me the underlying original data. This is the principle of data services.”

Tian Feng introduced that in addition to federal learning, privacy computing, encryption of biometric data, and some corresponding anonymization processing are all security protection technologies that SenseTime Intelligent Industry Research Institute has invested in research and development in various scenarios.

The following is a concise compilation of the interview record:

Sohu Technology: Would you like to briefly introduce to the netizens your research institute of Intelligent Industry and whether SenseTime has some interesting research?

Tian Feng: Artificial intelligence is changing the life and business model of each of us. SenseTime Intelligent Industry Research Institute focuses on the industrial value of artificial intelligence and our social value, including social impact. This is the result of our continuous efforts to write various smart industry reports, digital transformation reports, and global AI policy analysis and ethics-related research results.

Sohu Technology: A common topic, is technology neutral or valued. What do you think of this issue?

Tian Feng: First of all, we believe that artificial intelligence is a tool and a representative of the forefront of technology. The tool must depend on your purpose, so its users, the people who use this tool, must have values.

It has three directions. In general, science and technology, the first is to become a tool of the industry, and the second is to become a scientific, forward-looking theoretical research result. So the second one is the development direction of cutting-edge technology. The third is the unavoidable topic, weapons. During World War II, science and technology developed rapidly. Basically, these three directions evolved. In the end, whoever uses such technology has corresponding values.

Sohu Technology: The technology itself is still a tool?

Tian Feng: Yes, we want it to be used by good people, so our so-called AI ethics is more about letting good people use artificial intelligence, rather than letting evil people use artificial intelligence.

Sohu Technology: User privacy protection has always been a hot topic. In the era of big data, the demand for data is very large. In order to train AI, etc., are there any technologies and rules to better protect user privacy?

Tian Feng: Regardless of China, the United States and Europe, everyone attaches great importance to the privacy of the whole people, which will promote the development of the entire technology industry. The ethical protection of artificial intelligence now has a purpose, first to promote development, and second to protect the bottom line. Artificial intelligence will have various risks. If you don’t use it or study its technology, it will never develop. This will bring industry regression to mankind. The first development will always be a theme, no matter it is China, the United States, Europe.

The second thing is to keep the bottom line. Everyone is like sitting on a boat. If any place leaks, the boat will sink. From the perspective of Shangtang Technology, we have made a lot of investment and work in artificial intelligence ethics. Including the Intelligent Industry Research Institute, our main core task is to do research on the ethics of AI and the joint research and development team to make more technical inputs. For example, what we are talking about now is federated learning, privacy computing, including the encryption of biometric data and the corresponding anonymization processing. These are all kinds of security protections and practices that we continue to do in different industrial scenarios.

Sohu Technology: Federal learning is a relatively hot technology in the industry. Can you explain to the public in simple words what kind of technology is this? Can it protect privacy?

Tian Feng: We often say one sentence, which is particularly suitable for describing this. The data is available or not visible. When I judge whether the data is true or false, I only answer yes or no, and will not tell me the underlying original data. This is data. The principle of service.

Second, federated learning is actually multiple data, and even data from multiple business entities are put together for fusion machine learning training and data cross-analysis. However, this environment can guarantee the security of the underlying data to the data of all parties. From the IT era to the cloud computing era to the artificial intelligence era, there are various technologies to protect the underlying security of multiple data, and more can be obtained from the above. The results of good data analysis, the data of insurance companies and the data of Internet companies are intertwined to produce insurance premium data of thousands of people, which does not mean to publish the private data of every car owner. This is to look at the federal government from an industry perspective. The integration and innovation of the data of multiple commercial entities realized by learning can not only obtain commercial value, but also protect the data resources of each party from being leaked.

Song Wanxin: Shang Tang has invested a lot in this area?

Tian Feng: Yes, we have joined hands with many university laboratories around the world to do artificial intelligence technology and ethics research and development. We have established a computational law and AI ethics research center in cooperation with Shanghai Jiaotong University, relying on the first-line scientific research of universities and enterprises Strength, we will work together to study the technology and soft topics of risk control in various aspects of AI ethics and legal compliance.

Tian Huiyu attaches great importance to the development of financial technology. In the more than 2,000 words of the “President’s Address” in the China Merchants Bank’s 2019 annual report, he mentioned a total of 6 “technology”, 9 “transformation”, and 14 “digitalization”.

Since taking office in 2013, Tian Huiyu has been pushing China Merchants Bank to “run wildly” on the road of technology.

“We have made a clear-cut proposal to build a financial technology bank, and take the exploration of digital business models as the main direction of the second half of the transformation.” Tian Huiyu said in the 2019 annual report.

Thanks to the efforts of Tian Huiyu and other people from China Merchants Bank, China Merchants Bank’s “technological strength” has been at the forefront of the industry.

• At the end of 2019, CMB’s investment in information technology was 9.361 billion yuan, an increase of 43.97% year-on-year, which was 3.72% of the company’s operating income; in 2020, CMB’s investment in information technology reached 12 billion yuan
• In December 2020, China Merchants Bank and JD.com jointly won the second direct banking license in China. China Merchants Topology Bank will fully adopt an online business model and explore new forms of banking in the future
• As of January 10, 2021, the CMB App has accumulated 145 million users and 60.25 million monthly active users

The emergence of the epidemic will bring more complicated situations and tests to banks in 2020, and China Merchants Bank’s performance last year was relatively stable. According to the performance bulletin published on January 14, China Merchants Bank achieved operating income of 290.508 billion yuan in 2020, an increase of 20.805 billion yuan, or 7.71%, over the same period last year.

Recently, Tian Huiyu also said in an interview with a reporter from the Financial Times that the epidemic has isolated physical contact between people, but thanks to a higher level of digital service system, the relationship between China Merchants Bank and its customers has become closer. It also strengthened China Merchants Bank’s determination to promote digital transformation.

Create “Digital Merchants Bank”

China Merchants Bank, founded in 1987 and headquartered in Shenzhen, China, is the first joint-stock commercial bank in China that is wholly owned by a corporate legal person.

China Merchants Bank adheres to the strategic direction of “light banking” and the strategic positioning of “one body and two wings”.

“Light Bank” The strategic direction of China Merchants Bank requires light management, light assets, light business model, etc. For example, light management refers to a light organization structure, which is manifested in the head office and branches going hand in hand; light asset refers to less asset consumption and more controllable risks. At present, China Merchants Bank and ICBC have joined the ranks of light banks. In its annual report, China Merchants Bank pointed out that it is necessary to closely focus on the transformation direction of “light banking” and strive to achieve a breakthrough in the qualitative change of financial technology banks.

At the same time, China Merchants Bank also insisted “One body and two wings” Strategic positioning, Retail “One” takes MAU as “North Star” (North Star is the most important direction, and all indicators serve this indicator) , Wholesale “Two Wings” take specialization as the direction, focus on building wholesale business systemization capabilities, and accelerate the advancement of digital transformation.

With MAU as the most important indicator, the number of APP users of China Merchants Bank continues to rise. At the end of 2019, the cumulative number of CMB App users exceeded 100 million; in mid-2020, the cumulative number of CMB App users reached 129 million; as of January 10, 2021, the cumulative number of CMB App users had reached 145 million. The number of active users is 60.25 million.

China Merchants Bank also directly pointed out that it must pass Benchmarking financial technology companies , Vigorously carry out the construction of financial technology banks, use financial technology as the nuclear power of transformation and development, and fully empower business development .

Currently, China Merchants Bank has built three software centers in Shenzhen, Hangzhou, and Chengdu, and two data centers in Shenzhen and Shanghai to support the business development of the entire bank.

China Merchants Bank’s “AI Actual Combat”

Digital risk control

China Merchants Bank’s intelligent risk control platform “Libra System” covers online and offline transaction channels, and can intercept telecom fraud in real time.

As of the end of 2019, the “Libra System” can intercept suspected fraudulent transactions within 30 milliseconds, reduce the proportion of counterfeit and embezzled amounts of non-cardholders to five ten million, and help customers intercept 27,900 telecommunications fraud transactions. The interception amounted to 493 million yuan, which provided a strong guarantee for the safety of customer funds.

As of mid-2020, China Merchants Bank has reached 75.60% of the early warning accuracy of potential risky corporate customers; it has helped customers intercept 80,000 telecommunications fraud transactions, with an intercepted amount of more than 1.8 billion yuan, which provides a strong guarantee for the safety of customer funds.

Now, the intelligent risk control platform “Libra System” can intercept most suspected fraudulent transactions within 20 milliseconds, reducing the proportion of counterfeit and embezzled amounts by non-cardholders to six ten millionths.

In addition, in terms of external cooperation, China Merchants Bank is also actively cooperating with digital technology companies such as Huawei, Tencent, and Suoxinda.

According to an article published on Huawei’s official website in 2018, after the China Merchants Bank credit card unified risk control platform based on Huawei’s FusionInsight big data solution was launched, the number of risk cases was reduced by 50%, and the loss in half a year was reduced by more than 100 million yuan. The credit card issuance time has been reduced from about 15 days. Shorten it to 5 minutes.

In November 2017, Tencent and China Merchants Bank formally signed a cooperation agreement to reach a cooperation in the field of financial big data anti-fraud: Tencent Financial Cloud and Tencent Security Anti-fraud Laboratory opened up anti-fraud capabilities to China Merchants Bank through AI technology to help China Merchants Bank Better identify fraud in financial services and jointly build a financial security ecosystem.

According to news in April 2020, Tencent and China Merchants Bank jointly launched the “Lingshield Plan” to create a new model of anti-fraud through technology.

Digital marketing

In the field of intelligent marketing, the characteristics of China Merchants Bank are personalized recommendation, precise identification and electronic channel construction.

Beginning in 2015, China Merchants Bank has cooperated with Suoxinda Holdings, a global financial AI big data and integrated intelligent marketing solution manufacturer, from the customer group marketing stage 1.0, to the personalized marketing stage 2.0, to the real-time marketing 3.0 stage, to AI Marketing 4.0 stage, comprehensively build China Merchants Bank’s leading digital smart marketing system. It is reported that through the generation of 1,726 customer portrait tags for retail customers, the number of marketing customer contacts has increased by 6.56 times, the marketing success rate has reached 17.42%, and the personalized recommendation of “thousands of people” has begun.

Digital Customer Service

In 2016, under the technological wave of AI + big data, China Merchants Bank’s credit card service started the application of intelligent services with the palm life app as the core, from AR customer service, to AI-core intelligent customer service, and then to small recruitment assistants. Every new technology exploration and application has brought users a better interactive experience, and has become a more personalized and portable intelligent assistant for users step by step.

At present, the “Xiao Zhao Miao Smart Assistant” launched by CMB Credit Card on the Pocket Life App uses AI technologies such as voice conversion and semantic recognition to perform intelligent intent analysis of natural language, making the service “visible” and “heard” “. At the same time, the intelligent voice navigation function is implanted in the telephone voice IVR, the recognition accuracy rate reaches 94%, and the interaction volume is nearly 80,000. In addition to voice recognition technology, face recognition has also been used in the image, which greatly shortens the security authentication time.

In 2020, an interim report issued by China Merchants Bank pointed out that the automatic response accuracy rate of China Merchants Bank’s intelligent customer service reached 96.7%.

Digital investment advisory

In 2016, China Merchants Bank launched a robo-advisory service-“Capricorn Intelligent Investment”, which is also the first domestic commercial bank to launch robo-advisory services.

“Capricorn Smart Investment” mainly uses machine learning algorithms to incorporate more than ten years of wealth management experience of China Merchants Bank, and builds an asset allocation portfolio based on public funds, so as to achieve the purpose of diversifying investment risks with investors.

In 2018 alone, the cumulative sales scale of CMB Capricorn Smart Investment reached 12.233 billion.

Digital Middle Office

In the 2019 annual report, China Merchants Bank pointed out that it will build a unified digital middle-station for enterprises-China Merchants Bank’s open platform, explore the transformation of business models supported by standardized and modular services, and quickly respond to customer needs.

Prior to this, Leifeng.com (Public Account: Leifeng.com) had reported on China Merchants Bank’s data center in detail. For example, China Merchants Bank has built a middle-office system for customer acquisition and operation across the entire chain, such as the Rubik’s Cube activity operating platform and the red envelope platform. Like the Rubik’s Cube event platform, branches can quickly configure an online event within 5 minutes and reach target users through the China Merchants Bank App.

China Merchants Bank also proposed Strengthen the construction of data center and promote data connection. Strengthen data governance, improve the convenience and ease of use of data, build a data application tool platform, and lower the threshold of data application. Promote the integration and opening of the system, open up the work flow and information flow of each system, and realize one entrance to the whole line. Decoupling the system with open thinking, micro-service and productization of functional modules, Precipitate various general capabilities as the middle stage of the system.

The 2020 Interim Report of China Merchants Bank pointed out that China Merchants Bank will accelerate the iterative development of its customer relationship management system (CRM), and use the CRM system as a medium- and Taiwan-based capability precipitation carrier to form a customer information center, information case center, business processing center, marketing support center and a series of scenarios. Five core functions such as the team building center.

The CRM4.0 system is a key platform for the transformation of the “China Merchants Bank” financial business model. It is a smart marketing platform and a digital operation platform based on the business system, as well as a customer service system and a customer manager management system platform.

smart robot

China Merchants Bank relies on big data and artificial intelligence to create intelligent service robots, traffic distribution decision-making robots, intelligent agent assistant robots, service analysis robots, quality inspection robots, etc., covering user insights, traffic distribution, service interaction, demand re-excavation, management improvement, etc. Five modules, and moved the call center to the Pocket Life App to provide users with audio-visual multimedia interactive services, which has achieved the upgrade of service efficiency and user experience.

In June 2020, Tian Huiyu pointed out that China Merchants Bank relies on big data and artificial intelligence to create a large number of intelligent service robots. The cost of robots used for retail credit collection is 1/10 of labor, and the output is 9 times that of labor. The above is to increase production capacity.

RPA (Robot Process Automation)

As of October 2020, the financial industry accounted for the highest proportion of domestic RPA companies at 54.55%, of which 77.78% of financial institutions are banks. Among them, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank and China Merchants Bank were the first banks to use RPA. They were the first to introduce RPA technology in the domestic financial industry in 2016 and 2017, respectively, in order to improve the level of operation automation. The effect is very impressive.

In December 2018, China Merchants Bank used intelligent robots to participate in business processing in the new version of its online custody banking system, which was the first to realize the application of RPA technology in the asset custody field.

In 2020, China Merchants Bank has innovatively integrated the RPA shared pool technology on the basis of the original CBS7.0 platform, and launched CBS-RPA, which can quickly help companies build a complete treasury management system, build a comprehensive treasury management system, and solve treasury management Problems and perplexities. The product became very popular after it was launched, and it has been successfully launched in nearly ten large group companies across the country within only half a year of its launch.

In the 2020 interim report, China Merchants Bank pointed out that it applied RPA, OCR and NLP (natural language processing) and other financial technology technologies in 24 middle and back-office scenarios including verification, entry, and consulting. During the reporting period, the number of alternative businesses reached 11.64 million. .

Tian Huiyu, President of China Merchants Bank, said: RPA uses machines to replace simple outsourcing, which saves a lot of costs.

cloud computing

At the end of 2019, the total number of X86 server deployments of China Merchants Bank increased by 60.67% year-on-year. The new generation of PaaS (Platform as a Service) platform expanded its use, and the proportion of the bank’s applications on the cloud reached 44%.

At the same time, China Merchants Bank continues to enhance its open banking capabilities. The “Open API Platform” for unified external services across the bank supports the safe and fast output of APIs, serving financial payment, AI, smart parking, smart medical and other scenarios, and empowering 629 cooperative enterprises. In terms of big data + AI, the big data cloud platform was upgraded, the overall capacity of the data lake was increased to 9.8PB, and the data entering the lake increased by 68% year-on-year.

Based on the integration of internal and external data, China Merchants Bank has increased the research and application of AI technology, built three AI cloud services of intelligent customer service, risk public opinion, and computer vision, and launched three major AI solutions for knowledge management, digital marketing, and risk management to support business The development of intelligence.

The 2020 mid-term report pointed out that China Merchants Bank will establish a large-scale digital infrastructure based on cloud computing technology, promote the construction of a native cloud that is more convenient for rapid construction, expansion, openness and iteration of systems and applications, and support the safe access of new applications from the head office and branches to the cloud .

As of mid-2020, China Merchants Bank has 4,015 native cloud servers, an increase of 100% over the end of the previous year; the scale of native cloud storage is 29.18PB, an increase of 92% over the end of the previous year; the number of native cloud containers is 69,080, an increase of 121% over the end of the previous year.

database

On November 27, 2017, China Merchants Bank and Huawei established a joint innovation laboratory for distributed databases to jointly develop independent and controllable financial-grade distributed database products.

In this joint creation project, China Merchants Bank mainly does three things: first, to provide advanced financial business scenarios; second, based on so many years of advanced experience in database use and operation and maintenance of China Merchants Bank, it proposes a solution for the joint creation of distributed databases. Specific requirements; third, for the key components of the Lianchuang database, such as the kernel and high-availability architecture, deeply participate in the entire link from design, coding, testing to final production. Huawei, on the other hand, has a large amount of technology accumulation in the database field, and is mainly responsible for the realization of product development and the promotion of future marketization.

After initial contact and cooperation, China Merchants Bank and Huawei conducted a pilot database application in 2018.

In the 2019 annual report, China Merchants Bank pointed out the establishment of the Kunpeng Computing Joint Innovation Laboratory and the Load Balancing Joint Innovation Laboratory to accelerate the implementation of the research results of the distributed database joint innovation laboratory.

Biometrics

As the leading brand of commercial banks, China Merchants Bank focuses on internal risk control and payment security, combined with cutting-edge technologies such as big data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence, and continuously upgrades the risk control system, creates smart risk control, and creates convenience and efficiency for consumers. Safe and assured customer experience.

In order to strengthen the bank’s internal security management, increase the efficiency of the banking system’s authorization, and enhance the counter business risk prevention capabilities, China Merchants Bank introduced the fingerprint recognition algorithm and smart terminals of Eyes Technology as early as 2009, which were applied to the counters and smart branches of China Merchants Bank. And in mobile marketing, it has realized intelligent risk control and cost reduction and efficiency enhancement, helping China Merchants Bank to provide consumers with intelligent, convenient and safe financial services with user experience as the core, and add to the good life of users.

Blockchain

As early as 2018, China Merchants Bank issued the country’s first financial industry blockchain electronic invoice.

At the end of 2019, China Merchants Bank improved and developed the standard branch chain and BaaS (blockchain as a service) platform ecology, with a total of 25 applications.

In the 2020 mid-term report, China Merchants Bank pointed out that it is improving and developing the open permission chain and blockchain as a service (BaaS) platform. It has been developing the continuous application of blockchain and business integration in scenarios such as supply chain finance and merchant fund clearing. explore.

Online payment

In the 2019 annual report, China Merchants Bank pointed out that it will realize ecological operation with the industrial Internet as the key link. Focusing on the three major directions of account and payment system digitization, digital financing, and financial technology capability output, the industry chain is opened up, and the unified payment and settlement system is innovated to realize the collection and settlement function and the internal account settlement mode of the B2B platform.

At the end of 2019, China Merchants Bank’s comprehensive settlement solution “Cloud Bills” has provided services to 5,766 corporate customers, with a transaction volume of 287.271 billion yuan; the aggregate collection business focuses on insurance, medicine, education, and FMCG four scenarios, and the number of transactions Reached 502 million transactions, with a transaction value of 146.647 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 267.51%.

The “Three Times” of China Merchants Bank

China Merchants Bank started from Shekou, Shenzhen, and has been crowned as the “King of Retailing” in the banking industry for 40 years of ups and downs. Along the way, it is inseparable from the three presidents’ keen insight into market changes and their strong courage to actively reform.

Wang Shizhen He was the first president of China Merchants Bank and served for 14 years. Under his leadership, China Merchants Bank evolved from a wholly-owned bank of China Merchants into a standard joint-stock commercial bank, and gradually got rid of the restrictions of regional banks, and basically formed a national commercial bank. Pattern.

Wang Shizhen and other leaders also made the decision to quickly establish a computer system for China Merchants Bank, and set a clear mid-term goal: to complete the computerization of basic business processing within three years, and to complete the computerization of all business processing within five years. This has laid a good foundation for China Merchants Bank to carry out digital transformation in the future.

Year 1999, Ma Weihua He took over as the president of China Merchants Bank and fully started the construction of China Merchants Bank’s online banking after taking office, becoming the first commercial bank in China with online financial services. The opening of China Merchants Bank’s online banking became the starting point for its retail business.

In 2010, after realizing that the profit growth achieved by large-scale capital consumption and profit margins in the past was difficult to sustain, Ma Weihua led China Merchants Bank to implement the goals of reducing capital consumption, increasing loan pricing, and controlling financial costs. “Secondary transformation”. Like Wang Shizhen, Ma Weihua has also been at the helm of China Merchants Bank for 14 years.

year 2013, Tian Huiyu Taking over as the president of China Merchants Bank, China Merchants Bank has ushered in a new era in which it is fully embarking on the road of “finan-tech banking”.

Under the leadership of Tian Huiyu, China Merchants Bank proposed “mobile first” in 2015, consciously using APP as its main business position.

In 2016, China Merchants Bank mentioned fintech in its annual report for the first time, proposing that the bank’s “premature power” must be used to advance its fintech strategy, and in its 17-year report, it proposed to be a “finan-tech bank”.

Under the leadership of Tian Huiyu and other leaders of China Merchants Bank, at the end of 2019, China Merchants Bank invested 9.361 billion yuan in information technology, a year-on-year increase of 43.97%, which is 3.72% of the company’s operating income.

China Merchants Bank attaches great importance to science and technology investment, and its investment in information technology has far exceeded that of most banks over the years. Public information shows that the annual financial technology budget of China Merchants Bank is determined at 3.5% of the previous year’s revenue.

Recently, Tian Huiyu said in an interview that China Merchants Bank’s investment in information technology has reached 12 billion yuan in 2020. Based on this figure, Leifeng.com calculates that China Merchants Bank’s IT investment will account for more than 4% of the company’s operating income in 2020.

Competition with china US Senate passed Billion program

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With a $ 250 billion program, the US wants to make up economic ground against China. The aim is semiconductor production and the research area Artificial Intelligence. The US Senate has passed a huge investment program in research and technology. Across all parties, the senators voted in favor of the package of measures designed to strengthen the US economy in competition with China. One of the goals is to advance the production of semiconductors in the USA and research in the field of artificial intelligence. Senate Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said after the vote: “If we don’t do anything, our days as the dominant superpower could be numbered.” US President Joe Biden was satisfied with the Senate decision: “We are competing for victory in the 21st century and the starting shot has been fired.” The US would have to maintain its position as “the most innovative and productive nation in the world”, according to Biden.

Production capacities decreased

According to the White House, the proportion of semiconductor production capacity in the US has fallen from 37 percent to around 12 percent of global production over the past 20 years. US companies are dependent on foreign countries, in particular on countries in Asia, which is a risk in the supply chain. Currently, many automakers and electronics manufacturers are struggling with not enough chips on the market. Among other things, the surge in demand for notebooks and other computer technology during the pandemic led to the shortage of semiconductors.

Discover the technologies of tomorrow

President Biden said the bill will enable the US to discover, manufacture and improve tomorrow’s key technologies – from artificial intelligence to computer chips to lithium batteries used in smart devices and electric vehicles – in the United States United States. The House of Representatives must also give its approval for the Investment Act to come into force. According to the US media, it could meet with resistance there.

The annual report shows that in 2020, CITIC Bank invested 6.926 billion yuan in science and technology, an increase of 24.43% year-on-year; the number of science and technology personnel in CITIC Bank has quadrupled in two years to 4190.

With the increasing investment in technology, the achievements of China CITIC Bank’s digital transformation are gradually emerging:

China CITIC Bank and its peers have established a large-scale blockchain cooperation ecology among domestic banks, and the cumulative transaction volume of the blockchain trade finance platform has exceeded 10 billion yuan

China CITIC Bank successfully put into production the first independent distributed core system of domestic medium and large banks-Lingyun Engineering

China CITIC Bank has nearly 800 application scenarios for intelligent robots (RPA), the branch application coverage rate exceeds 80%, and the average business operation efficiency has increased by more than 20%.

On March 15th, Li Qingping, who has a “financial iron lady”, resigned as chairman of China CITIC Bank, and Zhu Hexin, who was the former vice governor of finance, took over. Zhu Hexin is an “old Bank of Communications” with more than 20 years of experience in the financial industry. Under his leadership, CITIC Bank’s layout in the field of financial technology may undergo major changes.

Build a digital CITIC Bank

China CITIC Bank, founded in 1987 and headquartered in Beijing, is one of the nationwide commercial banks. Its total assets exceed 7 trillion yuan and the number of employees is nearly 60,000.

In the “Top 100 Chinese Banking Industry 2020” released by the China Banking Association, CITIC Bank ranked 11th according to the ranking of core Tier 1 capital. In this ranking, China CITIC Bank surpasses China Everbright Bank and is second only to Minsheng Bank.

CITIC Bank, like CITIC Securities, CITIC Construction Investment Securities, CITIC Trust, CITIC Prudential Life and other companies, is one of the subsidiaries of CITIC Group.

In 2020, China CITIC Bank, together with other CITIC Group subsidiaries, provided customers with a combined financing scale of 107.82 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 68%, breaking the “one trillion” mark for the first time.

On March 25, China CITIC Bank Co., Ltd. released its 2020 annual performance report. The report shows that China CITIC Bank will achieve revenue of 194.731 billion yuan in 2020, a year-on-year increase of 3.81%.

In recent years, China CITIC Bank has continuously increased its investment in financial technology.

In 2020, CITIC Bank invested nearly 7 billion yuan in technology, an increase of 24% over the previous year, and technology investment accounted for 3.56% of operating income.

As of the end of 2020, CITIC Bank has 4190 scientific and technical personnel (excluding subsidiaries), a year-on-year increase of 31.68%, and CITIC Bank’s scientific and technical personnel accounted for 7.60%.

The number of scientific and technological personnel in CITIC Bank has quadrupled in two years, which is also a supplement to the upcoming larger-scale digital transformation.

At the beginning of this year, China CITIC Bank released a new three-year development plan, proposing to use high-tech as the engine and high-quality development as the theme to strengthen the development of light and intensive.

In order to achieve high-quality development goals, The financial technology structure of China CITIC Bank has been adjusted to “three committees, two departments, and two centers” . Compared with 2019, China CITIC Bank has added a new data management committee to its 2020 annual report.

At the same time, China CITIC Bank also proposed the implementation path of “one reform, two transformations and three challenges”. In response, China CITIC Bank proposed to accelerate digital transformation and light capital transformation.

In terms of ecological scenario layout and corporate cooperation, China CITIC Bank has jointly built more than 5,500 scenarios with hundreds of partners such as UnionPay, Didi, JD.com, etc., serving 5.2 million users and accumulating 390 million capital transactions.

In cooperation with artificial intelligence-related applications, China CITIC Bank has launched cooperation with the three Internet giants of BAT, and other well-known artificial intelligence application technology manufacturers such as Megvii, HKUST Xunfei, Tongdun and Bangsheng, enriching itself in various fields. Artificial intelligence applications on business lines.

CITIC Bank AI combat

Artificial intelligence platform

As early as 2017, the artificial intelligence platform “CITIC Brain” independently developed by China CITIC Bank was fully launched.

In 2018, “CITIC Brain” initially has the ability to provide intelligent services for retail, corporate, custody, and compliance.

In 2020, with the “CITIC Brain” as the main engine, CITIC Bank will build an “AI Model Center” and an “AI Efficiency Center”, implement 307 “AI + data” precision models, and serve more than 10 million customers intelligently in real time.

Among them, wealth management AI intelligent recommendation achieved online sales of 232.65 billion yuan, landing strategic customer equity chain applications, and increasing management assets by more than 52.2 billion yuan.

Intelligent risk control

The 2020 annual report shows that China CITIC Bank has accelerated the practice of intelligent risk control, independently developed real-time intelligent anti-fraud and anti-money laundering systems, with an accuracy rate of 90% for real-time transaction monitoring and interception, and offline risk control screening and intercepting more than 17,000 risk events.

The bank’s credit card center uses big data, machine learning, cloud computing and other intelligent technologies to introduce multi-dimensional new data to enrich customer risk profiles. In 2020, a total of 26 full-process credit risk scoring cards will be iteratively optimized, effectively improving the ability of risk control and precise policy implementation; Through machine learning algorithms, it has achieved a new breakthrough in more efficient and accurate risk decision-making capabilities, and realized a 20% increase in transaction amount.

In 2018, China CITIC Bank and Bangsheng Technology reached a cooperation in the construction of risk control and anti-fraud, and contributed to the upgrade of CITIC Bank’s intelligent real-time risk control system.

In the same year, China CITIC Bank also reached a cooperation with Tongdun Technology. Tongdun Technology provides smart risk control middle-office services for China CITIC Bank Credit Card Center.

Smart marketing

According to the 2020 annual report, China CITIC Bank expanded its new customers by 12,800 new customers by increasing digital marketing and using the chain-based customer acquisition and product customer acquisition model, driving a deposit growth of 53.9 billion yuan.

In addition, CITIC Bank has also actively developed a retail business system, which has boosted the scale of assets by nearly 200 billion yuan, and the AI ​​smart recommendation for wealth management has achieved CITIC Bank’s online sales scale of more than 230 billion yuan.

In 2017, China CITIC Bank cooperated with Suoxinda Holdings, a global financial AI big data and integrated intelligent marketing solution manufacturer, and introduced Suoxinda AI, big data and other leading technologies and end-to-end digital intelligent marketing overall solutions to comprehensively build CITIC Bank Leading digital marketing system.

Smart Customer Service

In October 2018, China CITIC Bank Mobile Banking launched an intelligent voice service product to help visually impaired users experience barrier-free mobile financial services.

With the support of Tencent Cloud’s intelligent voice and semantic understanding technology, China CITIC Bank’s mobile banking intelligent voice service has achieved rapid upgrades.

With the help of intelligent voice technology, CITIC Bank’s customer service robots can meet the needs of scenarios such as question and answer, transfer tasks, account query tasks, financial tasks, small chats, etc., and provide solutions for complex financial transaction scenarios.

In the same year, China CITIC Bank also cooperated with HKUST iFLYTEK in intelligent customer service.

Robo-advisor

CITIC Bank’s robo-advisory product-“Xinzhitou”, on the basis of agency fund sales, integrates technologies such as big data analysis and quantitative financial models.

“Xinzhi Investment” analyzes the customer’s investment pain points from the three stages of pre-investment, investment, and post-investment, and provides customers with a complete set of fund investment solutions based on the customer’s profile and target risk strategy.

Lu Tiangui, the current business director of CITIC Bank, once introduced the three highlights of Xinzhi Investment in 2018:

One is to intelligently match target risks and simulated returns based on the customer’s risk assessment results, and recommend the most suitable product combination. According to reports, Xinzhi Investment has built an intelligent risk assessment model based on multi-dimensional data analysis of more than 2 million customers.

Second, Xinzhi Investment not only has forward-looking market analysis by investment research experts and professional research on underlying products, but also uses big data, investment models, and intelligent algorithms to make up for the lack of human computing power.

Third, the user experience is convenient. CITIC Bank searches for the optimal combination from more than 4,000 funds, and directly pushes the recommended asset allocation combination to users. Users make decisions, purchase with one click, and enjoy follow-up services. Experts continue to track the macro market and Bottom product situation.

Core system

In 2020, China CITIC Bank successfully put into production the first autonomous distributed core system (Lingyun Project) of domestic medium and large banks.

As the first to be put into production in China, the new generation of cloud-based credit card core system with independent intellectual property rights-the new core system of China CITIC Bank Credit Card StarCard, will be the first anniversary of stable operation in 2020.

The data shows that StarCard has successfully carried the operation and management of 110 million accounts. The peak transaction value is as high as 4,500 transactions per second, which is more than three times that of the original system. The average transaction response time is only 36 milliseconds, which is effective for satisfying, membership days, rush to buy, and marketing. Activities, Double Eleven Shopping Festival and other high-frequency trading application scenarios.

At the same time, the bank’s credit card center has steadily promoted the construction of the second phase of the upgrade of the new core system of StarCard, and has completed 30 planned subprojects of the second phase, and implemented “second-level” real-time and intelligent data business scenario services.

Blockchain

The 2020 annual report shows that the China CITIC Bank blockchain platform is the first to pass 5 credible evaluations of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology at one time. The blockchain forfaiting trading platform has been recognized by the People’s Bank of China and upgraded to a national industry platform.

The blockchain forfaiting trading platform is a large-scale blockchain cooperation ecosystem between domestic banks established by China CITIC Bank and its peers.

At present, the cumulative transaction volume of the blockchain trade finance platform has exceeded 10 billion yuan.

cloud computing

In 2017, China CITIC Bank launched an ecological financial cloud platform. It is understood that the cloud platform is operated by financial institutions, technology companies, professional institutions, regulatory agencies, etc., in accordance with the mechanism of division of labor.

In the 2018 annual report, 53% of CITIC Bank’s applications have been migrated to the cloud platform, and the system deployment efficiency has increased by more than 20%.

In the 2020 annual report, the overall cloudification rate of China CITIC Bank’s infrastructure reached 96.71%, and the infrastructure resources have T+1 day delivery capabilities.

At present, China CITIC Bank pointed out that it has completed the first stage of production of the bank-level data lake, and the basic data platform of “one lake, one database” has been basically completed, and the overall processing performance has increased by more than 50%.

RPA (Intelligent Robot)

In 2019, Daguan Data won the bid for the AI ​​project of CITIC Bank Credit Card Center to provide it with RPA products and technical services.

The 2020 annual report shows that there are nearly 800 application scenarios for CITIC Bank’s intelligent robot (RPA), the branch application coverage rate exceeds 80%, and the average business operation efficiency has increased by more than 20%.

With online processes, mobile approvals, and intelligent customer identification, China CITIC Bank has shortened the time it takes to open public accounts by approximately 30%.

Biometrics

In terms of fingerprint recognition, China CITIC Bank and Lenovo Venture Capital Group’s subsidiary “National Authentication” reached a cooperation in 2018 to deploy a fingerprint login function module in the new version of mobile banking 4.0. Users only need to turn on the fingerprint login function to experience extreme speed Easy and quick to log in.

In the direction of face recognition, China CITIC Bank applied Megvii Technology’s face core product in 2018.

mobile bank

In the construction of mobile banking, China CITIC Bank is speeding up the construction of a multi-application ecological network with mobile banking as the main operating position and small programs as light touch points.

The dual APP of China CITIC Bank’s mobile banking and mobile card space is upgraded to version 7.0, and realizes interconnection; mobile banking APP 7.0 realizes the version switching that changes according to the customer, and on the basis of the popular standard version, it covers overseas finance, the elderly, and private banks. Five characteristic customer groups, small and micro, and foreign, provide personalized and exclusive services.

In the first half of 2020, China CITIC Bank has 10.85 million monthly active mobile banking (MAU) accounts, a year-on-year increase of 17%, and China CITIC Bank’s credit card APP “Moving Card Space” has 13.24 million monthly active users (MAU), an increase of 12% year-on-year.

As of the end of 2020, China CITIC Bank has 26.155 million online monthly active users, of which mobile banking APP transaction amount has increased by 20.66% over the previous year, and the replacement rate of e-banking transactions has reached 99.54%.

In terms of channel co-building, China CITIC Bank has also continued to strengthen online service integration. The mobile banking APP successfully launched the online business hall services of CITIC Securities and China Securities Construction Investment Securities, and jointly launched the CITIC Academy function with CITIC Publishing Group.

President Fang Heying: Build a first-class technology-based bank

At present, the senior management organization structure of China CITIC Bank presents a pattern of six presidents with “one director and five associates”.

On the evening of March 15, Li Qingping, the former chairman of China CITIC Bank, handed in her resignation. At the same time, the board of directors has elected the chairman of CITIC Group Zhu Hexin as the chairman of the bank, and the president of China CITIC Bank Fang Heying as the vice chairman.

Among them, President Fang Heying is a 25-year veteran of China CITIC Bank.

Since 1996, Fang Heying has worked at China CITIC Bank, where he has served as the bank’s financial market business director, Hangzhou branch president, and Suzhou branch president.

Now 55, he addressed the shareholders on behalf of China CITIC Bank in the 2020 China CITIC Bank Annual Report just released.

Looking forward to the next three years, Fang Heying stated in the annual report president’s speech that he will continue to increase investment in science and technology. Accelerate the digital transformation and build China CITIC Bank into a “first-class technology bank” , Through the same direction of technology and business, to drive more innovation and bring about greater changes.

At the level of financial technology, Lv Tiangui, the business director of CITIC Bank and the proposed vice president, also said in response to a question from a reporter from the Economic Information Daily that the goal of CITIC Bank is to build two major platforms in technology and data within three to five years. “Support and promote the transformation of the bank’s operation and management from informatization and digitization to intelligence, forming an agile + intelligent innovation system, and becoming a first-class technology-driven bank.”

Lu Tiangui also said that digital transformation has now been upgraded to a bank-wide strategy to promote the entire process of systematic changes from technology application, model innovation, process reengineering to organizational remodeling, and promote the improvement of the bank’s governance system and the improvement of governance capabilities.

Tian Huiyu attaches great importance to the development of financial technology. In the more than 2,000 words of the “President’s Address” in the China Merchants Bank’s 2019 annual report, he mentioned a total of 6 “technology”, 9 “transformation”, and 14 “digitalization”.

Since taking office in 2013, Tian Huiyu has been pushing China Merchants Bank to “run wildly” on the road of technology.

“We have made a clear-cut proposal to build a financial technology bank, and take the exploration of digital business models as the main direction of the second half of the transformation.” Tian Huiyu said in the 2019 annual report.

Thanks to the efforts of Tian Huiyu and other people from China Merchants Bank, China Merchants Bank’s “technological strength” has been at the forefront of the industry.

• At the end of 2019, CMB’s investment in information technology was 9.361 billion yuan, an increase of 43.97% year-on-year, which was 3.72% of the company’s operating income; in 2020, CMB’s investment in information technology reached 12 billion yuan
• In December 2020, China Merchants Bank and JD.com jointly won the second direct banking license in China. China Merchants Topology Bank will fully adopt an online business model and explore new forms of banking in the future
• As of January 10, 2021, the CMB App has accumulated 145 million users and 60.25 million monthly active users

The emergence of the epidemic will bring more complicated situations and tests to banks in 2020, and China Merchants Bank’s performance last year was relatively stable. According to the performance bulletin published on January 14, China Merchants Bank achieved operating income of 290.508 billion yuan in 2020, an increase of 20.805 billion yuan, or 7.71%, over the same period last year.

Recently, Tian Huiyu also said in an interview with a reporter from the Financial Times that the epidemic has isolated physical contact between people, but thanks to a higher level of digital service system, the relationship between China Merchants Bank and its customers has become closer. It also strengthened China Merchants Bank’s determination to promote digital transformation.

Create “Digital Merchants Bank”

China Merchants Bank, founded in 1987 and headquartered in Shenzhen, China, is the first joint-stock commercial bank in China that is wholly owned by a corporate legal person.

China Merchants Bank adheres to the strategic direction of “light banking” and the strategic positioning of “one body and two wings”.

“Light Bank” The strategic direction of China Merchants Bank requires light management, light assets, light business model, etc. For example, light management refers to a light organization structure, which is manifested in the head office and branches going hand in hand; light asset refers to less asset consumption and more controllable risks. At present, China Merchants Bank and ICBC have joined the ranks of light banks. In its annual report, China Merchants Bank pointed out that it is necessary to closely focus on the transformation direction of “light banking” and strive to achieve a breakthrough in the qualitative change of financial technology banks.

At the same time, China Merchants Bank also insisted “One body and two wings” Strategic positioning, Retail “One” takes MAU as “North Star” (North Star is the most important direction, and all indicators serve this indicator) , Wholesale “Two Wings” take specialization as the direction, focus on building wholesale business systemization capabilities, and accelerate the advancement of digital transformation.

With MAU as the most important indicator, the number of APP users of China Merchants Bank continues to rise. At the end of 2019, the cumulative number of CMB App users exceeded 100 million; in mid-2020, the cumulative number of CMB App users reached 129 million; as of January 10, 2021, the cumulative number of CMB App users had reached 145 million. The number of active users is 60.25 million.

China Merchants Bank also directly pointed out that it must pass Benchmarking financial technology companies , Vigorously carry out the construction of financial technology banks, use financial technology as the nuclear power of transformation and development, and fully empower business development .

Currently, China Merchants Bank has built three software centers in Shenzhen, Hangzhou, and Chengdu, and two data centers in Shenzhen and Shanghai to support the business development of the entire bank.

China Merchants Bank’s “AI Actual Combat”

Digital risk control

China Merchants Bank’s intelligent risk control platform “Libra System” covers online and offline transaction channels, and can intercept telecom fraud in real time.

As of the end of 2019, the “Libra System” can intercept suspected fraudulent transactions within 30 milliseconds, reduce the proportion of counterfeit and embezzled amounts of non-cardholders to five ten million, and help customers intercept 27,900 telecommunications fraud transactions. The interception amounted to 493 million yuan, which provided a strong guarantee for the safety of customer funds.

As of mid-2020, China Merchants Bank has reached 75.60% of the early warning accuracy of potential risky corporate customers; it has helped customers intercept 80,000 telecommunications fraud transactions, with an intercepted amount of more than 1.8 billion yuan, which provides a strong guarantee for the safety of customer funds.

Now, the intelligent risk control platform “Libra System” can intercept most suspected fraudulent transactions within 20 milliseconds, reducing the proportion of counterfeit and embezzled amounts by non-cardholders to six ten millionths.

In addition, in terms of external cooperation, China Merchants Bank is also actively cooperating with digital technology companies such as Huawei, Tencent, and Suoxinda.

According to an article published on Huawei’s official website in 2018, after the China Merchants Bank credit card unified risk control platform based on Huawei’s FusionInsight big data solution was launched, the number of risk cases was reduced by 50%, and the loss in half a year was reduced by more than 100 million yuan. The credit card issuance time has been reduced from about 15 days. Shorten it to 5 minutes.

In November 2017, Tencent and China Merchants Bank formally signed a cooperation agreement to reach a cooperation in the field of financial big data anti-fraud: Tencent Financial Cloud and Tencent Security Anti-fraud Laboratory opened up anti-fraud capabilities to China Merchants Bank through AI technology to help China Merchants Bank Better identify fraud in financial services and jointly build a financial security ecosystem.

According to news in April 2020, Tencent and China Merchants Bank jointly launched the “Lingshield Plan” to create a new model of anti-fraud through technology.

Digital marketing

In the field of intelligent marketing, the characteristics of China Merchants Bank are personalized recommendation, precise identification and electronic channel construction.

Beginning in 2015, China Merchants Bank has cooperated with Suoxinda Holdings, a global financial AI big data and integrated intelligent marketing solution manufacturer, from the customer group marketing stage 1.0, to the personalized marketing stage 2.0, to the real-time marketing 3.0 stage, to AI Marketing 4.0 stage, comprehensively build China Merchants Bank’s leading digital smart marketing system. It is reported that through the generation of 1,726 customer portrait tags for retail customers, the number of marketing customer contacts has increased by 6.56 times, the marketing success rate has reached 17.42%, and the personalized recommendation of “thousands of people” has begun.

Digital Customer Service

In 2016, under the technological wave of AI + big data, China Merchants Bank’s credit card service started the application of intelligent services with the palm life app as the core, from AR customer service, to AI-core intelligent customer service, and then to small recruitment assistants. Every new technology exploration and application has brought users a better interactive experience, and has become a more personalized and portable intelligent assistant for users step by step.

At present, the “Xiao Zhao Miao Smart Assistant” launched by CMB Credit Card on the Pocket Life App uses AI technologies such as voice conversion and semantic recognition to perform intelligent intent analysis of natural language, making the service “visible” and “heard” “. At the same time, the intelligent voice navigation function is implanted in the telephone voice IVR, the recognition accuracy rate reaches 94%, and the interaction volume is nearly 80,000. In addition to voice recognition technology, face recognition has also been used in the image, which greatly shortens the security authentication time.

In 2020, an interim report issued by China Merchants Bank pointed out that the automatic response accuracy rate of China Merchants Bank’s intelligent customer service reached 96.7%.

Digital investment advisory

In 2016, China Merchants Bank launched a robo-advisory service-“Capricorn Intelligent Investment”, which is also the first domestic commercial bank to launch robo-advisory services.

“Capricorn Smart Investment” mainly uses machine learning algorithms to incorporate more than ten years of wealth management experience of China Merchants Bank, and builds an asset allocation portfolio based on public funds, so as to achieve the purpose of diversifying investment risks with investors.

In 2018 alone, the cumulative sales scale of CMB Capricorn Smart Investment reached 12.233 billion.

Digital Middle Office

In the 2019 annual report, China Merchants Bank pointed out that it will build a unified digital middle-station for enterprises-China Merchants Bank’s open platform, explore the transformation of business models supported by standardized and modular services, and quickly respond to customer needs.

Prior to this, Leifeng.com (Public Account: Leifeng.com) had reported on China Merchants Bank’s data center in detail. For example, China Merchants Bank has built a middle-office system for customer acquisition and operation across the entire chain, such as the Rubik’s Cube activity operating platform and the red envelope platform. Like the Rubik’s Cube event platform, branches can quickly configure an online event within 5 minutes and reach target users through the China Merchants Bank App.

China Merchants Bank also proposed Strengthen the construction of data center and promote data connection. Strengthen data governance, improve the convenience and ease of use of data, build a data application tool platform, and lower the threshold of data application. Promote the integration and opening of the system, open up the work flow and information flow of each system, and realize one entrance to the whole line. Decoupling the system with open thinking, micro-service and productization of functional modules, Precipitate various general capabilities as the middle stage of the system.

The 2020 Interim Report of China Merchants Bank pointed out that China Merchants Bank will accelerate the iterative development of its customer relationship management system (CRM), and use the CRM system as a medium- and Taiwan-based capability precipitation carrier to form a customer information center, information case center, business processing center, marketing support center and a series of scenarios. Five core functions such as the team building center.

The CRM4.0 system is a key platform for the transformation of the “China Merchants Bank” financial business model. It is a smart marketing platform and a digital operation platform based on the business system, as well as a customer service system and a customer manager management system platform.

smart robot

China Merchants Bank relies on big data and artificial intelligence to create intelligent service robots, traffic distribution decision-making robots, intelligent agent assistant robots, service analysis robots, quality inspection robots, etc., covering user insights, traffic distribution, service interaction, demand re-excavation, management improvement, etc. Five modules, and moved the call center to the Pocket Life App to provide users with audio-visual multimedia interactive services, which has achieved the upgrade of service efficiency and user experience.

In June 2020, Tian Huiyu pointed out that China Merchants Bank relies on big data and artificial intelligence to create a large number of intelligent service robots. The cost of robots used for retail credit collection is 1/10 of labor, and the output is 9 times that of labor. The above is to increase production capacity.

RPA (Robot Process Automation)

As of October 2020, the financial industry accounted for the highest proportion of domestic RPA companies at 54.55%, of which 77.78% of financial institutions are banks. Among them, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank and China Merchants Bank were the first banks to use RPA. They were the first to introduce RPA technology in the domestic financial industry in 2016 and 2017, respectively, in order to improve the level of operation automation. The effect is very impressive.

In December 2018, China Merchants Bank used intelligent robots to participate in business processing in the new version of its online custody banking system, which was the first to realize the application of RPA technology in the asset custody field.

In 2020, China Merchants Bank has innovatively integrated the RPA shared pool technology on the basis of the original CBS7.0 platform, and launched CBS-RPA, which can quickly help companies build a complete treasury management system, build a comprehensive treasury management system, and solve treasury management Problems and perplexities. The product became very popular after it was launched, and it has been successfully launched in nearly ten large group companies across the country within only half a year of its launch.

In the 2020 interim report, China Merchants Bank pointed out that it applied RPA, OCR and NLP (natural language processing) and other financial technology technologies in 24 middle and back-office scenarios including verification, entry, and consulting. During the reporting period, the number of alternative businesses reached 11.64 million. .

Tian Huiyu, President of China Merchants Bank, said: RPA uses machines to replace simple outsourcing, which saves a lot of costs.

cloud computing

At the end of 2019, the total number of X86 server deployments of China Merchants Bank increased by 60.67% year-on-year. The new generation of PaaS (Platform as a Service) platform expanded its use, and the proportion of applications on the cloud in the bank reached 44%.

At the same time, China Merchants Bank continues to enhance its open banking capabilities. The “Open API Platform” for unified external services across the bank supports the safe and fast output of APIs, serving financial payment, AI, smart parking, smart medical and other scenarios, and empowering 629 cooperative enterprises. In terms of big data + AI, the big data cloud platform was upgraded, the overall capacity of the data lake was increased to 9.8PB, and the data entering the lake increased by 68% year-on-year.

Based on the integration of internal and external data, China Merchants Bank has increased the research and application of AI technology, built three AI cloud services of intelligent customer service, risk public opinion, and computer vision, and launched three major AI solutions for knowledge management, digital marketing, and risk management to support business The development of intelligence.

The 2020 mid-term report pointed out that China Merchants Bank will establish a large-scale digital infrastructure based on cloud computing technology, promote the construction of a native cloud that is more convenient for rapid construction, expansion, openness and iteration of systems and applications, and support the safe access of new applications from the head office and branches to the cloud .

As of mid-2020, China Merchants Bank has 4,015 native cloud servers, an increase of 100% over the end of the previous year; the scale of native cloud storage is 29.18PB, an increase of 92% over the end of the previous year; the number of native cloud containers is 69,080, an increase of 121% over the end of the previous year.

database

On November 27, 2017, China Merchants Bank and Huawei established a joint innovation laboratory for distributed databases to jointly develop independent and controllable financial-grade distributed database products.

In this joint creation project, China Merchants Bank mainly does three things: first, to provide advanced financial business scenarios; second, based on so many years of advanced experience in database use and operation and maintenance of China Merchants Bank, it proposes a solution for the joint creation of distributed databases. Specific requirements; third, for the key components of the Lianchuang database, such as the kernel and high-availability architecture, deeply participate in the entire link from design, coding, testing to final production. Huawei, on the other hand, has a large amount of technology accumulation in the database field, and is mainly responsible for the realization of product development and the promotion of future marketization.

After initial contact and cooperation, China Merchants Bank and Huawei conducted a pilot database application in 2018.

In the 2019 annual report, China Merchants Bank pointed out the establishment of the Kunpeng Computing Joint Innovation Laboratory and the Load Balancing Joint Innovation Laboratory to accelerate the implementation of the research results of the distributed database joint innovation laboratory.

Biometrics

As the leading brand of commercial banks, China Merchants Bank focuses on internal risk control and payment security, combined with cutting-edge technologies such as big data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence, and continuously upgrades the risk control system, creates smart risk control, and creates convenience and efficiency for consumers. Safe and assured customer experience.

In order to strengthen the bank’s internal security management, increase the efficiency of the banking system’s authorization, and enhance the counter business risk prevention capabilities, China Merchants Bank introduced the fingerprint recognition algorithm and smart terminals of Eyes Technology as early as 2009, which were applied to the counters and smart branches of China Merchants Bank. And in mobile marketing, it has realized intelligent risk control and cost reduction and efficiency enhancement, helping China Merchants Bank to provide consumers with intelligent, convenient and safe financial services with user experience as the core, and add to the good life of users.

Blockchain

As early as 2018, China Merchants Bank issued the country’s first financial industry blockchain electronic invoice.

At the end of 2019, China Merchants Bank improved and developed the standard branch chain and BaaS (blockchain as a service) platform ecology, with a total of 25 applications.

In the 2020 mid-term report, China Merchants Bank pointed out that it is improving and developing the open permission chain and blockchain as a service (BaaS) platform. It has been developing the continuous application of blockchain and business integration in scenarios such as supply chain finance and merchant fund clearing. explore.

Online payment

In the 2019 annual report, China Merchants Bank pointed out that it will realize ecological operation with the industrial Internet as the key link. Focusing on the three major directions of account and payment system digitization, digital financing, and financial technology capability output, the industry chain is opened up, and the unified payment and settlement system is innovated to realize the collection and settlement function and the internal account settlement mode of the B2B platform.

At the end of 2019, China Merchants Bank’s comprehensive settlement solution “Cloud Bills” has provided services to 5,766 corporate customers, with a transaction volume of 287.271 billion yuan; the aggregate collection business focuses on insurance, medicine, education, and FMCG four scenarios, and the number of transactions Reached 502 million transactions, with a transaction value of 146.647 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 267.51%.

The “Three Times” of China Merchants Bank

China Merchants Bank started from Shekou, Shenzhen, and has been crowned as the “King of Retailing” in the banking industry for 40 years of ups and downs. Along the way, it is inseparable from the three presidents’ keen insight into market changes and their strong courage to actively reform.

Wang Shizhen He was the first president of China Merchants Bank and served for 14 years. Under his leadership, China Merchants Bank evolved from a wholly-owned bank of China Merchants into a standard joint-stock commercial bank, and gradually got rid of the restrictions of regional banks, and basically formed a national commercial bank. Pattern.

Wang Shizhen and other leaders also made the decision to quickly establish a computer system for China Merchants Bank, and set a clear mid-term goal: to complete the computerization of basic business processing within three years, and to complete the computerization of all business processing within five years. This has laid a good foundation for China Merchants Bank to carry out digital transformation in the future.

Year 1999, Ma Weihua He took over as the president of China Merchants Bank and fully started the construction of China Merchants Bank’s online banking after taking office, becoming the first commercial bank in China with online financial services. The opening of China Merchants Bank’s online banking became the starting point for its retail business.

In 2010, after realizing that the profit growth achieved by large-scale capital consumption and profit margins in the past was difficult to sustain, Ma Weihua led China Merchants Bank to implement the goals of reducing capital consumption, increasing loan pricing, and controlling financial costs. “Secondary transformation”. Like Wang Shizhen, Ma Weihua has also been at the helm of China Merchants Bank for 14 years.

year 2013, Tian Huiyu Taking over as the president of China Merchants Bank, China Merchants Bank has ushered in a new era in which it is fully embarking on the road of “finan-tech banking”.

Under the leadership of Tian Huiyu, China Merchants Bank proposed “mobile first” in 2015, consciously using APP as its main business position.

In 2016, China Merchants Bank mentioned fintech in its annual report for the first time, proposing that the bank’s “premature power” must be used to advance its fintech strategy, and in its 17-year report, it proposed to be a “finan-tech bank”.

Under the leadership of Tian Huiyu and other leaders of China Merchants Bank, at the end of 2019, China Merchants Bank invested 9.361 billion yuan in information technology, a year-on-year increase of 43.97%, which is 3.72% of the company’s operating income.

China Merchants Bank attaches great importance to science and technology investment, and its investment in information technology has far exceeded that of most banks over the years. Public information shows that the annual financial technology budget of China Merchants Bank is determined at 3.5% of the previous year’s revenue.

Recently, Tian Huiyu said in an interview that China Merchants Bank’s investment in information technology has reached 12 billion yuan in 2020. Based on this figure, Leifeng.com calculates that China Merchants Bank’s IT investment will account for more than 4% of the company’s operating income in 2020.

“Computer Vision” technology is capable of warning behaviors such as: Not wearing a mask and not wearing a seat belt. Accordingly, Binh Anh Electronic Technology Development Co., Ltd (BA GPS) began to install the “Not wearing a mask warning” feature for free for some passenger transport units starting from June 2021. . Specifically, this analysis system is connected to the camera on the vehicle to get image data, then AI technology will automatically analyze and send a notification to the transport unit whenever it detects someone not wearing a mask. or wearing a mask incorrectly. The system also ticks green boxes for faces wearing masks and red boxes for faces not wearing masks. The warning system is sent to the transport business unit via software on smartphones and computers if there are passengers. People who do not wear masks are circled in red by the computer and sent an alert to the system Pham Thai Hoa – Technology Director of BA GPS shared: “The technology to process and analyze the necessary information in the photos is called Computer Vision (CV), translated into Vietnamese as Machine Vision. This CV technology is applied by us on the vehicle camera system”. Previously, in mid-May, Tien Phong reflected that surveillance cameras recorded images of many people not wearing masks on passenger cars, even the drivers and assistants. After that, the Ministry of Transport and the Directorate for Roads issued a document to correct this situation.

The warning system is sent to the transport business unit via software on smartphones and computers if there are passengers who do not wear masks or wear masks incorrectly. (Screenshots) The installation of surveillance cameras on transport business vehicles according to regulations from July 1 will promptly detect passengers who do not wear masks to prevent the COVID-19 epidemic. Binh Anh Electronic Technology Development Company Limited will provide and install the “no mask warning” feature for free for vehicles with surveillance cameras on passenger trucks from this June. . This technology will help transport businesses remotely remind if they detect and warn passengers/employees of the garage who are not wearing masks or are wearing masks incorrectly, and at the same time, people feel more secure when traveling by passenger car, raising awareness of compliance with 5K, minimizing the spread of disease in a crowded, closed, easy-to-infection environment on the vehicle and difficult to trace when detecting a COVID-19 case. Specifically, the analysis system is connected to the camera on the vehicle to get image data, then artificial intelligence (AI) technology will automatically analyze and send a notification to the transport unit every time it is detected. someone is not wearing a mask or is wearing it incorrectly. The system also ticks green boxes for faces wearing masks and red boxes for faces not wearing masks. According to Mr. Dao Thanh Anh, Chairman of Binh Anh Company, the environment of passenger cars, buses, trucks carrying workers and students … is closed, air-conditioner is on, anaerobic, so it is easy to infect and difficult to trace when encountering cases COVID-19. “For the transportation industry, artificial intelligence technology not only brings many benefits to vehicle owners, but also improves safety for all passengers. Currently, the number of camera images of businesses is increasing, the identification of people who are not wearing masks and counting the number of passengers can be over 95% accurate. Therefore, the warning feature does not wear the mask on the car will contribute to the society to fight back the pandemic,” Mr. Dao Thanh Anh expressed his expectation. In the coming time, this company will continue to apply artificial intelligence technology to help transport businesses optimize management and receive early warnings to improve safety for riders. In addition, a number of other features will also soon come into operation such as: Counting people in the car, alerting the driver to use the phone, not wearing a seat belt, opening the door when driving, warning someone is forgotten. In the car, connect the thermal camera to automatically detect when the body temperature is abnormal. Previously, the Directorate for Roads of Vietnam has issued a document to correct the prevention and control of COVID-19 epidemic on passenger cars because it is reported that there are still many passengers, drivers and service staff on business vehicles. Transport businesses do not comply with epidemic prevention and control measures, especially not wearing masks in accordance with regulations. Notably, transport business units are required to urgently install surveillance cameras in accordance with the route of the Decree 10 2020 on business and transport business conditions, and review the requirements of transport business units that have installed cameras to provide accounts to access the server in accordance with Decree 10 for inspection purposes. , monitoring. The Departments of Transport of the provinces and cities shall direct their inspectors to coordinate with functional forces in their localities to inspect, urge, remind and strictly handle cases of violations of regulations on prevention and control. COVID-19 epidemic .

Fantasy of artificial intelligence has just been released in Vietnam. (Source: Nha Nam) The book also gives the final result and points out the difference between AI (Artificial Intelligence) and the human brain, thereby showing readers the risks of over-reliance on machine results. count. In the first four chapters, the author has used a lot of real-life examples to explain in an easy way how artificial intelligence works and how they produce the end result. The author claims that robots have surpassed humans in repetitive monotonous tasks, they have better memory, perform more accurate calculations and are tireless. But artificial intelligence is not programmed to simulate the human brain, and artificial intelligence cannot think, reason, and reason. Since then, the author asserts, until now, computers with comprehensive intelligence enough to compete with humans have not yet existed. In the next two chapters, by referring to “Data Mining”, it is proven fact that data mining even though sometimes there will be a real knowledge discovery. The larger the number of explanatory variables considered, the more likely it is that a relationship discovered is just a coincidence, of temporary nature. In the remaining chapters of the book, the author has given many computational models in many fields such as finance, politics, economics… to prove that statistical evidence is not enough to distinguish between knowledge real and false consciousness. The computer cannot accurately judge whether the correlation is random or truly significant. That work is only for the human mind. Computers smarter than humans? It can be said that artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most interested keywords. Now, thanks to AI, we can do things that were never possible before and never thought we could do. However, with AI’s undisputed capabilities are fantasies and fears for the future of humanity. The real danger is not that the computer is smarter than us, but that we think the computer is smarter than us and therefore trust the computer to make important decisions for us. Meanwhile, computers can completely make serious mistakes, when the way they process data is not the same as the way humans think. In conclusion, human intelligence works differently from artificial intelligence, so it cannot be said that artificial intelligence is intelligent. Robots excel in memory, accuracy, and endurance, but they still have many shortcomings: they can’t think, can’t make analogies, and can’t distinguish between good-bad, meaningless-meaningful data. Humans need computers to process large amounts of information, but also need human intelligence to make final judgments about the results returned by computers. Gary Smith is a Professor at Pomona College, USA. He is involved in numerous research projects that highlight the questionable use of data in statistical analysis. He is the author of 8 textbooks, 7 business books, nearly 100 academic articles, and 7 software programs in economics, finance, and statistics. In addition to teaching at Pomona College, he is also an economic analyst and consultant. His other famous books such as Standard Deviation: Flawed Assumptions and Tortured Data also warn about the dangers of confusing correlation and causation in statistical analysis.

ASI can think, learn, judge, and act holistically, autonomously by learning large-scale data based on computing infrastructure capable of high-volume computation. AI can be classified based on its intelligence level, including 3 types: Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI) and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) ) and Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI). With the exception of ANI which is popular now, AGI and ASI are both superior AIs and currently in research stage. One of the important steps forward is when AI reaches ASI level, making it possible to create new algorithms for extremely fast computing. It can aggregate from big data sources, making ASI quickly surpass humans to reach supernatural levels. Up to now, there have been leading giants in the world that are investing heavily in AI technology in general and ASI in particular, such as Google, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Microsoft… Illustration of super artificial intelligence ASI Accordingly, Google acquired the AI ​​startup DeepMind to become Google DeepMind and implemented an AI project for the London subway system (UK). Google also put its free TensorFlow machine learning system to work using voice recognition, image recognition, translation technology, and mimicking the workings of the human brain. Facebook also uses AI technology to help visually impaired people “see” photos through an iOS app, creating detailed maps of the population, global Internet users, and studying user behavior; facial recognition of people in photos posted on social networks… IBM’s famous Watson computer is capable of answering questions in natural language, using AI to analyze the context and meaning behind photos, videos, messages and dialogue. IBM is working on upgrading Watson to 1.7 times stronger and the application for the lesson machine based on the provided material. The AI ​​Research Institute of LG Group recently announced in an online chat that it will invest more than 100 million USD over the next 3 years to develop a mainframe infrastructure that can handle a large amount of data. large data quickly. Specifically, the aforementioned AI institute plans to build a global Top 3 AI computing infrastructure that can process calculations 95.7 million billion times per second. In the second half of 2021, LG will announce an ASI called GPT-3 with 600 billion parameters. GPT-3 can communicate as naturally as humans and write essays and novels. LG’s AI Research Institute is planning to develop super-large ASI with trillions of parameters in the first half of 2022. According to market research site ResearchAndMarkets.com, AI is now appearing in many areas, from data management to retail shopping. In the long term, the solutions involve many types of AI and ASI as well as integration across other areas such as Internet of Things (IoT) and data analytics. Worried about ASI losing control According to researchers, along with great human achievements in AI technology to help shape the world in a better way, AI also brings growing concern that at some point, machines will machines will control humans, making humans dependent on the decisions of machines when they reach AGI and ASI levels. Physicist Stephen Hawking in 2017 hypothesized just before his death: “Unless we learn to prepare for and avoid potential risks, AI could be the worst event in the world. history of our civilization. It brings dangers, like powerful autonomous weapons or new ways for the few to dominate the majority. It could bring major disruption to our economy.” Although the physicist Hawking did not specify when the AI ​​could pose such a hazard, it will almost certainly happen after the point when it reaches the level of ASI. Some people believe that ASI may appear at some point in the not-too-distant future and could lead to disaster for humanity, possibly even extinction. The concept of intelligent machines taking over the world, or variations thereof, has made its way to the silver screen many times through blockbusters such as The Terminator or The Matrix, both of which envision an apocalyptic scenario. caused by machines that surpass human intelligence. Physicist Hawking isn’t the only influential person to warn of AI being a global catastrophe. Tesla and SpaceX boss Elon Musk has predicted similarly dire consequences, arguing that AI is potentially more dangerous than nuclear warheads, and has frequently called for more regulatory oversight of development. development of AI. Oxford University professor Nick Bostrom, author of Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (ASI: Paths, Dangers, Strategies) discusses the multitude of situations where machine superiority could threaten humanity. . The book focuses on the period when AI achieved an intellectual explosion. Professor Bostrom also claims that a badly designed ASI system is hard to fix. “Once the unfriendly ASI machine exists, it prevents humans from replacing or changing its preferences and it determines our fate,” Professor Bostrom said. However, not all forecasts are pessimistic. Some would like to emphasize at this stage, there is no evidence that robots using ASI are about to wipe out humanity. The AI ​​research department of Stanford University, USA said that the scary visions according to which AI will dominate humanity in the future only appear from movies and novels, as well as in imagination. In fact, AI has been changing our daily lives, almost entirely in ways that improve human health, safety, and productivity… And importantly, humans know how to prevent it. the ability to abuse AI technology for malicious purposes. Beneficial AI applications in schools, homes, and hospitals are growing at a rapid pace. Therefore, at this stage, we must believe that, in the future, when AI develops into ASI, it is also intended to serve human civilization.

Carry out the opening ceremony of the research room. On May 27 at PTIT, Naver (Korea’s leading technology company) and PTIT held the Launching Ceremony of “International Research Lab on Artificial Intelligence and Multimedia Data”. The ceremony took place in an online form to ensure the health and safety of the delegates. “International Research Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence and Multimedia Data” is the first collaborative project between Naver Corporation and PTIT. With this activity, PTIT will officially join the “Global AI R&D Belt” of Naver and be the second university in Vietnam to receive the core technological knowledge provided by the university. Korean corporation brought. From Korea, CEO of NAVER Group – Mr. Choi In Hyuk said: “Choosing to cooperate with the Academy of Posts and Telecommunications Technology, a non-business unit under the Ministry of Information and Communications of Vietnam, is an important step for Naver in building the Global AI R&D Belt. Together with the cooperation to establish AI Center, we hope to create a leading AI research and training environment in Vietnam. The guests attended the ceremony. NAVER has been taking advantage of diverse opportunities to become an international technology corporation. In the future, Naver will constantly expand its network, bringing together talented people from everywhere to grow together and become global leaders in AI technology.” . Before the Lab was officially launched on May 27, PTIT’s technology experts collaborated with Naver Labs Europe’s team leaders to carry out the first research projects. It is expected that these studies will make a significant contribution to the digitalization process in Vietnam, and at the same time contribute to turning the country of more than 96 million people into a global player in artificial intelligence in the early next decade. . Academy Director – Mr. Vu Van San said: The corporation’s “global AI research and development belt”, along with ongoing research activities at PTIT, the cooperation and sharing of core AI values ​​from Naver will play a significant part in the building the Academy’s “miniature digital nation” and jointly developing and creating high-tech “make in Vietnam””. The main activities of the International Research Department on Artificial Intelligence and Multimedia Data include: Organizing courses for students including training in Embedded, IoT, AI, Big Data, Blockchain, Data; Organize student and faculty exchange programs. Vietnamese students and lecturers will have the opportunity to participate in exchange activities arranged by Naver; Transfer and apply Naver’s strong technologies, products and services; Developing new curricula and international training programs; Grant scholarships to outstanding students in the AI ​​field of PTIT; Conducted a joint research project between Naver and PTIT.

The large-capacity “field” Covid-19 laboratory at the Bac Giang Center for Disease Control has been fully installed with the cooperation and transfer support of the Military Medical Academy (Hanoi). This area has an area of ​​​​about 200 m2 and was built quickly in 3 days. The center consists of 8 specialized rooms. In which, 2 laboratories meet biosafety level 2. The most dangerous room is the initial sample processing room. This is the workplace of many officers from the Military Medical Academy, Bac Giang Center for Disease Control and volunteer technicians. Responsible for operating the laboratory is Lieutenant Colonel, Dr. BS Ho Huu Tho (Head of Department of Gene Technology and Cell Genetics, Military Medical Academy). According to Dr. Tho, the special feature of this laboratory is that the SARS-CoV-2 virus detection process is highly sensitive, with the cost savings being reduced by nearly half compared to traditional methods. At the same time, the center has the capacity to test tens of thousands of people every day. According to Dr. Tho, this is the world’s first gene technology, using artificial intelligence to analyze PCR results to detect SARS-CoV-2 pathogens (known as AIMS RT-PCR technology). The sensitivity of this method was evaluated against an in vitro RNA standard set for a detection threshold of 7.2 copies/reaction, nearly 7 times lower than the WHO recommended procedure, when evaluating under the same experimental conditions (50 copies/reaction). This study was clinically evaluated on 142 positive cases, 1,034 negative cases for SARS-CoV-2 and 14 other respiratory viruses. The sensitivity and specificity of the method were both 100%. More importantly, the procedure was successful in mixing 100 patient samples in a single real-time reaction without compromising sensitivity. As such, this is a simple, super-sensitive and potential test method for large-scale screening of SARS-CoV-2 with cost savings many times over. According to Dr. Tho, this method is like a weapon we switch from a defensive state to an attack against the Covid-19 epidemic. To communicate with the staff working in the lab, the commander had to use a walkie-talkie system because the windows were always foggy because of the mist and Chloramin B disinfectant. Besides, the technician was wearing clothes For protection, entering the lab will be called by the number corresponding to the job they are undertaking. After each opening to receive samples, the room is sprayed with disinfectant to avoid the risk of infection. All generated waste is also collected and treated according to regulations of the Ministry of Health. To maintain testing capacity, nearly 100 cadets of the Military Medical Academy are divided into small teams working for 8 hours, with 3 rotating teams each day to ensure that the laboratory is always open 24 hours a day. Tran Hoang Minh (student of Military Medical Academy) and friends relax before the shift. He is in charge of the work of separating and taking samples, so the risk of infection is very high. However, Minh feels proud to work at this center. “The laboratory capable of large-scale testing is a very powerful weapon in the fight against the epidemic. With mobilized human strength, strong weapons and high determination, I believe the epidemic will be quickly controlled.” male students share.

“Mass production has begun. It’s no longer a test, it’s a robot that can appear in sci-fi movies because of its ability to fight independently. It’s exactly the weapon. of the future,” emphasized Sergei Shoigu. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu talks about the country’s military priorities. Photo: TASS. According to Sergei Shiogu, equipping the armed forces with such means is one of the top priorities. And Moscow has a lot of work to do to expand its line of complex, military-purpose robots. Many military experts estimate that, although Russia’s military budget is not as much as that of the US or the European Union (EU), the country has spent a great deal of it on “sharpening knives”. Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense said that the first unit with attack robots will be formed in the Russian armed forces to operate five robotic systems “Uranus-9” with 20 combat vehicles. Offensive and defensive strategies will be studied in a Department of Defense science center. An experimental Russian attack robot. Photo: Sohu. It is known that the Uranus-9 is a multifunctional combat platform developed by Russia’s 766 Technical Equipment Production Bureau, with a total weight of 10 tons, 4.5 m in length, 2 m in width, 1 in height. ,4 m and maximum travel speed is 40 km/h. This combat robot combines powerful firepower, is equipped with a comprehensive controlled weapon system including 4 9S120 “Bumblebee-M” anti-tank missiles, 4 9K33 SA-18 anti-aircraft missiles and 1 2A72 cannon 30mm caliber with 200 rounds ammunition and 7.62mm machine gun mounted on the vehicle. In theory, its anti-tank missile has a range of 5,800 meters, enough to threaten today’s major armored targets.

The shoe is controlled by an artificial intelligence called InnoMake. Photo: Tec-Innovation According to Oddity Central (UK), called InnoMake, this smart shoe aims to become a modern alternative to the decades-old walking stick, which millions of blind people around the world use. the world is dependent on to travel as safely as possible. The shoe is now equipped with sensors that detect obstacles and warn the user through vibrations and audible alerts on smartphones with Bluetooth connectivity. This sounds very impressive already! However, the company is working on a much more advanced version of the shoe. It is integrating both the camera and artificial intelligence (AI) to not only detect an obstacle, but also know what it is. Photo: Tec-Innovation The shoe model is now equipped with sensors to detect obstacles. Photo: Tec-Innovation The company Tec-Innovation has partnered with the University of Graz in Austria to develop cutting-edge learning algorithms that analyze information from sensors and cameras built into InnoMake shoes. From there, the shoe can determine if the area has obstructions and is safe to walk through. It even distinguishes many different types of obstacles. “It not only warns me that I’m facing an obstacle, but gives information about that type of obstruction as well. Because knowing whether the obstacle is a wall, car, or ladder makes all the difference.” big,” said Markus Raffer, one of the founders of Tec-Innovation. Surprisingly, Raffer is also a blind person. Shoes can distinguish different types of obstructions. Photo: Tec-Innovation “Ultrasonic sensors at the toe of the shoe can detect obstacles up to 4 meters away. The user of the shoe will be alerted by a vibration mechanism and an audible signal. It works very well and has helped me a lot,” added Mr. Raffer. The current version of the InnoMake shoe is on sale on the company’s website for $3,850 per pair. While it doesn’t yet have a camera function as the company continues to work on it, the shoe is still an impressive piece of technology, possessing advanced modes and algorithms that make it as easy to use as possible. Rich is integrated with both camera and artificial intelligence (AI). Photo: Tec-Innovation Tec-Innovation’s website says users can make changes in real time using buttons on the back of the shoe. The operating range can be increased to 4 meters at the touch of a button. “You can activate smart mode, which automatically pauses when you sit. You can also use InnoMake as a scanner to gather information about your surroundings through every step,” the company said. said. This advanced system is integrated in the toe cap, which is water and dust resistant. It’s powered by a super-durable battery that can last up to a week, depending on how often you use it. The battery can be fully charged in 3 hours using a USB cable. The shoes are water and dust resistant. Photo: Tec-Innovation The next step for Tec-Innovation is to use the data collected by its system to create an all-view navigation map for the visually impaired. “At the current stage, only shoe wearers benefit from the data it collects as they walk. It would be better if this data was used for others as a navigation aid as well. “, explains computer scientist Friedrich Fraundorfer.

Viettel officially operates a system of 20 million billion calculations per second, the largest in Vietnam today (Photo: Dieu Linh) With 20 PetaFlops (20 million billion operations/second), the system reduces the time to train machine learning by dozens of times, can train many concurrent models in parallel, with high complexity. This system also trains continuous model improvement, shortening the time to improve the quality of artificial intelligence models. Supercomputers are invested with computational acceleration technologies, switching devices and synchronous software, similar to those of the world’s top 500 supercomputers. Putting the system into operation marks a new development step for Viettel in realizing Decision 127/QD-TTg dated January 26, 2021 of the Prime Minister promulgating the national strategy on research and development. development and application of artificial intelligence by 2030. According to Mr. Nguyen Dinh Chien, Deputy General Director of Viettel Group, Viettel is determined to invest in artificial intelligence, which is an important field to carry out its pioneering and key mission of creating a digital society. This investment allows Viettel to unleash its creativity, attract leading experts in the industry, as well as be ready to take on great tasks of the country.

Speakers participating in the Russia-Vietnam Forum on Artificial Intelligence (AI) (photo source VOV.vn) “The information on the market today seems a lot, but the raw data is often very noisy with missing information. Too little data in unpopular areas and there are too many types of real estate” – said Mr. Tran Hoang Tung, representative of Meey Land (Meey Land Group Joint Stock Company). According to Mr. Tung, this leads to difficulties for both the seller and the buyer in finding a suitable real estate, thereby prolonging the real estate transaction time, especially for those who perform real estate transactions. transaction for the first time. “There is not enough information to give an appropriate selling price for the seller, or to have a reasonable financial plan for the buyer,” a representative of Meey Land shared. Currently, the selected solutions are: Find real estate experts, brokers, and search for information on the internet. However, these methods require a lot of time, skill and are difficult to verify information. According to the representative of Meey Land, these problems can be solved by applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) to the research and analysis of market data. “By analyzing data, we can solve two things. Firstly, find out the important factors affecting real estate prices: area of ​​use, value, location, contractor/investor, number of bedrooms… Second, group of properties properties with similar factors to determine the price range of real estate in a short time without human intervention “- Mr. Tung shared. Mr. Tran Hoang Tung – Director of AI Project is presenting on “Application of AI in real estate valuation” The application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the valuation of real estate assets is part of an overall problem of 26 products/utilities launched by Meey Land with the ambition of solving problems in the real estate market. real estate by applying technology in activities and transactions. “The systematization of data by Meey Land’s AI will help make the real estate market more transparent, shorten transaction times and increase liquidity,” said a representative of Meey Land. In addition to the sharing of the Vietnamese representative, Meey Land, the 1st Russia – Vietnam Forum on Artificial Intelligence (AI), there were many other important contents that attracted the attention of attendees. Events like this forum promise to strengthen cooperation between businesses and organizations of Vietnam and the Russian Federation in the field of information technology in general and artificial intelligence (AI) in particular.

This is a turning point that helps Viettel improve its computing capacity to build and operate more complex artificial intelligence models in a short time, when the demand for computation increases sharply in both quantity and scale according to the target, By 2030, Vietnam will become a center of innovation and development of AI solutions and applications in the ASEAN region and around the world. Viettel is ready to take on the country’s big tasks on AI. Photo: VT The system invested by Viettel has the leading computing performance in Vietnam, reaching 20 PetaFlops (20 million billion calculations per second), helping to reduce machine learning training time by dozens of times. As a result, Viettel Cyber ​​Center can train many models at the same time, with high complexity. The system also trains for continuous model improvement, shortening the time it takes to improve the quality of AI models. The supercomputer invested by Viettel uses computational acceleration technologies, switching devices and synchronous software, similar to the technology of supercomputers in the Top 500 in the world. Putting the system into operation marks a new development step for Viettel in realizing the Decision on promulgating the national strategy on research, development and application of artificial intelligence by 2030, issued by the Prime Minister. issued last January. As a national security and defense enterprise, possessing the largest telecommunications and information technology infrastructure in the country, Viettel aims to play a key role in applying artificial intelligence in the field of military and defense, as well as other sectors. the field of ensuring data safety, network safety and security; urban management, social management and public administration, and areas of social life. Mr. Nguyen Dinh Chien – Deputy General Director of Viettel Group assessed: “Viettel is determined to invest in artificial intelligence, which is an important field to carry out its pioneering and key mission of creating a digital society. This investment will allow Viettel to unleash its creativity, attract leading AI experts, ready to take on the country’s big tasks in AI.” “The high-performance computing system will enable Viettel to create new revenue opportunities and be a global pioneer in the use of AI solutions.” Anish Pandey, ASEAN Regional Director of NVIDIA (World No. 1 Artificial Intelligence Computing Company) shared. AI application products researched and developed by Viettel: Viettel AI Open platform: Viettel AI platform is a diversified artificial intelligence technology platform pioneered, researched and developed by a team of engineers at Viettel Cyber ​​Center to promote the application of AI and create benefits for individuals. Individuals, organizations, and businesses, providing full tools for any digital transformation application that can be integrated to automate, improve user experience and optimize costs. www.viettelgroup.ai Monitoring information on the Internet – Reputa How to listen to information on the Internet every day? What do customers say about your product? What are your competitors doing? What is the upcoming trend? Reputa is a tool to listen to the market, support reputation monitoring and evaluate the effectiveness of communication and brand activities for individuals, organizations & businesses. Solutions to help customers manage brands, detect risky problems on the Internet, social networks. www.reputa.vn Customer authentication identifier – Viettel eKYC Viettel eKYC is a solution to identify customers electronically without face-to-face meetings thanks to the support of advanced technologies such as Customer Scoring, Computer Vision and Identification. Customer Profile (Customer Profiling) Vietnamese virtual assistant platform – Viettel Cyberbot Viettel Cyberbot (Callbot + Chatbot) is a Vietnamese virtual assistant platform, applying the best Vietnamese voice and conversation processing technologies today, helping Businesses and Governments build a call center system to interact with customers and people automatically. Viettel Cyberbot interacts friendly and natural with customers, helping businesses and governments to digitally transform and optimize customer care resources. Data Mining Platform – Viettel Data Mining Platform Viettel Data Mining Platform is a data mining platform developed with the aim of meeting the needs of integrating and digitizing huge amounts of data, helping businesses find and analyze problems in-depth, point out the current situation, predict predict the future, serve as a scientific basis to support decision-making in business strategies, optimize operations and explore new business models. Intelligent Traffic Monitoring – Viettel AI Camera for Transportation Viettel AI Camera is software that applies artificial intelligence technology in the field of computer vision to analyze and automatically process signals sent from traffic cameras. Thereby, solving traffic management problems, security and order in the city Security and safety monitoring – Viettel AI Camera for Safety The entry and exit management system uses artificial intelligence technology to recognize faces, identify identities and record the time of entry and exit of employees. This device compares the captured face image with the available face image in the database. From there, the device will automatically determine the working time and entry of employees.

The high-performance computing system is invested by Viettel and implemented artificial intelligence projects. Viettel Cyberspace Center (a member of the Military Industry and Telecommunications Group) has officially operated the high-performance computing system at Viettel Data Center. This is a turning point that helps Viettel improve its computing capacity to build and operate more complex artificial intelligence models in a short time. The investment Viettel system has the leading computing performance in Vietnam, reaching 20 PetaFlops (20 million billion calculations per second), which reduces the time to train machine learning dozens of times. As a result, Viettel Cyber ​​Center can simultaneously train many artificial intelligence models with high complexity. This system also trains continuous model improvement, shortening the time to improve the quality of artificial intelligence models. The supercomputer invested by Viettel uses computational acceleration technologies, switches and synchronous software, similar to the technology of supercomputers in the world’s top 500. Putting the system into operation marks a new development step for Viettel in realizing the Decision on promulgating the national strategy on research, development and application of artificial intelligence by 2030, issued by the Prime Minister. issued on January 26th. Viettel aims to play a key role in applying artificial intelligence in the military and defense sectors, as well as in the fields of data safety, cybersecurity, urban management, and social management. society and public administration, and areas of social life. Mr. Nguyen Dinh Chien, Deputy General Director of Viettel Group assessed: “Viettel is determined to invest in artificial intelligence, which is an important field to carry out its pioneering mission and key to creating a digital society. This investment will allow Viettel to unleash its creativity, attract leading experts in artificial intelligence, ready to take on the country’s big tasks in artificial intelligence.”

New solution Bkav 2021 applies Artificial Intelligence to create a 5-layer protection system The new solution Bkav 2021 applies Artificial Intelligence to create a 5-layer protection system, helping businesses and individual users closely protect the digital environment and digital data. The main protection layers of Bkav 2021 include the Network Layer that protects and monitors all incoming and outgoing network connections. The operating system layer monitors and detects operating system vulnerabilities. The data layer is responsible for protecting and monitoring changes to data or system configuration. The application layer performs behavioral and vulnerability monitoring of applications. Finally, the User Layer helps ensure the enforcement of information security policies. The manufacturer said that the new version of Artificial Intelligence technology applied in Bkav 2021 has enhanced the ability to identify malicious code by up to 99.9% as well as reduce the possibility of mistakenly catching clean files to approximately 0. %. Bkav’s new technology is also 144% more efficient than the previous 2020 version. In particular, the business version of Bkav Endpoint also provides reporting statistics in the form of a visual Dashboard. Businesses will get an overall picture of the protection situation periodically by week, month, and year, including the number of scanned files, the number of malicious files, the number of controlled connections, and the number of blocked dangerous connections. , the rate of infected malicious code, the number of times to prevent data encryption, spying attacks, the number of operating system vulnerabilities… Bkav Endpoint is provided in 3 versions, suitable for different sizes of businesses, including Endpoint SME for small and medium scale, Endpoint Enterprise for large scale and Endpoint Total for very large scale. Vu Ngoc Son, Vice President in charge of Anti-Malware of Bkav, said: “Bkav 2021’s 5-layer protection system provides comprehensive protection and does not miss any risks. At the same time, the system is also equipped with centralized administration features and periodic reports to help agencies, businesses and users always know the latest overview and details about the computer virus situation. in the whole system, so that they can really feel secure and actively participate in the digital transformation process”.

Zalo’s AI engineer team has researched and developed Kiki assistant using Vietnamese voice, helping users control many tasks. Accordingly, Vietnamese people can ask “assistants” to play music, give directions, remind appointments, read news… by voice. Focus on driving, be safer with Kiki Currently, all cars with Android Auto or Apple CarPlay integration can easily use the Kiki assistant to perform operations such as opening music, directions, reading news, etc. As a result, the driver can focus on observing and Media control. Especially, researched and developed to serve the Vietnamese people, Kiki can hear and understand the three North – Central – South voices well. When operating in the car, users only need to press the next button 2 times on the steering wheel to “wake up” the virtual assistant, then ask to perform the desired tasks. Video 1 – Experience Kiki in the car With a simple voice operation with Kiki assistant, you can request to open your favorite songs, charts, switch – turn off music. To find directions or a driving schedule, the driver activates Kiki and gives a command, a detailed map system will open on the screen. The habits of listening to music and news are also well served by Kiki with simple commands such as: Open favorite music, open music charts, switch music, turn off music, search music by singer’s name… In addition, Kiki is integrated in the car to help look up new information such as delicious restaurants, currency exchange… With this assistant, users can enjoy a hands-free experience in the car and drive safely. than. After a period of using Kiki in the car, Mr. Tran Tuan Dung (HCMC) excitedly shared: “Just say the request to the destination without having to do anything else, Kiki will lead us easily. The music player on the car is very attractive to me, the assistant can understand Vietnamese songs. Kiki used a voice interface that was more human than robot, understood even though my voice was not perfect. In the future, this upgraded virtual assistant will be even better.” A powerful tool for a busy life Modern life makes Vietnamese people busy. Products like Kiki are expected to bring a simpler and smarter life, saving time. With Kiki’s built-in smart speaker, office workers can order up a “to-do list”, schedule appointments, take notes, remind, update the weather or perform quick calculations when too busy. Video 2 – Experience Kiki in daily life Kiki integrates modern technology to make life more convenient. Kiki is now integrated into the Zing MP3 application to perform music search tasks by artist name, song or music genre. In addition, Kiki on the Zing MP3 application can handle the user’s behavior and listening habits such as mispronouncing, remembering the wrong song name or just incorrectly remembering a piece of lyrics. When at home, Kiki’s built-in smart speaker helps guide busy women in the kitchen or learn English while cleaning. In particular, families with small children do not have to interrupt work with the request “Kiki, open children’s fairy tales/music”. Thanks to its intelligent analysis and easy use, the Vietnamese virtual assistant created by Vietnamese people – Kiki gradually becomes a habit in the daily life of many Vietnamese users, helping to optimize costs and save money. time and effort. Kiki was first introduced in December 2018. By December 2020, Kiki was officially launched. Previously, this virtual assistant was integrated on the Zing MP3 application, attracting millions of users since the end of 2019 and developing stably to date. Kiki virtual assistant builds on many advanced technologies today such as AI (artificial intelligence) and knowledge graph (knowledge graph), big data platform.

Activities of management, administration, production, business and procurement of enterprises and people will be gradually changed, implemented through the digital environment. This also increases the risk of cyber attacks, especially attacks on digital data and the digital environment. To help users limit attacks and minimize damage in the future, Bkav has introduced anti-virus software version 2021, applying artificial intelligence to create a 5-layer protection system, helping businesses. and more secure users. Mr. Vu Ngoc Son, Bkav’s Vice President in charge of Anti Malware, said: “Bkav 2021’s 5-layer protection system provides comprehensive protection and does not leave any risk out. At the same time, the system is also equipped with centralized management features, periodic reports to help agencies, businesses and users always grasp general information, so they can be assured and actively participate. number converter ”. According to the manufacturer, Bkav 2021 is capable of detecting malware up to 99.9% as well as reducing the possibility of catching a clean file by approximately 0%, optimizing performance by 144% compared to the previous version. . Users who are installing Bkav antivirus software will be automatically upgraded to the new version.

InnoMake shoe models are equipped with smart sensors to detect obstacles. Not stopping there, Tec-Innovation Company is also researching more advanced version of InnoMake shoes. The new shoe will incorporate both a camera and artificial intelligence (AI) to not only detect obstacles but also identify what those obstacles are. It is known that Tec-Innovation Company has cooperated with Graz University of Austria to develop advanced learning algorithms, capable of analyzing information from sensors and cameras integrated in InnoMake shoes. From there, the shoe can determine if the area has obstructions and is safe to pass through. It even distinguishes many different types of obstacles. “The shoes not only warn me that I am facing an obstacle, but also give information about that type of obstruction. Knowing if the obstruction is a wall, car, or ladder will make a difference.” The ultrasonic sensors on the toe of the shoe can detect obstructions up to 4 meters away.The shoe user will be alerted by a vibrating mechanism and an audible signal. It helps me a lot, ”said Markus Raffer, one of the founders of Tec-Innovation. The special thing is that Raffer is also a blind person. Not only identifying obstacles, InnoMake shoes can also identify exactly what obstacles the user encounters. Tec-Innovation says users can make changes in real time using the buttons on the back of the shoe. The operating range can be increased up to 4 meters at the push of a button. “You can activate smart mode, which automatically pauses when you sit down. You can also use InnoMake as a scanner to gather information about your surroundings through every step of the way,” the company says. said. This state-of-the-art system built into the toe of the shoe is water and dust resistant. It works on a super durable battery that can last up to 1 week, depending on frequency of use. The battery can be fully charged in 3 hours using the USB cable. InnoMake shoes are water and dust resistant. The next step of Tec-Innovation is to use data collected by its system to create a kind of navigation map from all angles for the visually impaired. “At the current stage, only shoe wearers benefit from the data it collects as they walk. It would be better if this data was used for others as a navigational aid, “added scientist Friedrich Fraundorfer.

According to Chronicles of Sima Qian, in 219 BC, Qin Shihuang, fearing death, assigned the body to seek the secret of immortality. Regrettably, the dream of the first Emperor to unify China did not come true. Later, oil king John Davison Rockefeller – considered the richest American of all time – became the first person to successfully extend life with six heart changes in 38 years. These are two of the many examples of human desire to become immortal. That desire is becoming more and more burning, and based on the reality and the achievements of current science and technology, one day, man’s immortal dream will come true … Technology that prolongs life For scientists, human immortality is also an area of ​​research that receives a lot of attention. Although negating the immortality hypothesis from some religious point of view, atheists maintain Albert Einstein’s theory of relative immortality. In addition, modern scientific achievements are gradually proving the concept of relative immortality of the individual through physical immortality and biological immortality, instead of the subconscious “having death becomes immortal”. Since the beginning of the 21st century, the development of life-prolonging intervention technology has made great progress. Sinclair, a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, thinks we are witnessing new developments in technology and that one day all humans can live to be 150 years old .. In medicine, gene therapies have long been used to help people regenerate themselves and fight all diseases. The current achievements of gene implantation, reversing the aging process by enzyme and NAD, effects on chromosomes or stem cells … are still quite limited. While it is possible to maintain a person’s lifespan for up to 15%, or even longer, the distance to immortality is a long way to go. In contrast, studies such as Syncardia and Carmat artificial hearts that have just been approved for commercial use will make the human immortality process more and more realistic. This artificial heart possesses a structure similar to that of a human heart and can automatically adjust the rate of blood flow throughout the body. They can also be replaced in the face of depletion and self-adapting to the changing mechanisms of life. An artificial heart works similarly to a human heart Currently, 81 patients have received artificial heart transplants worldwide. Not only the artificial heart, the famous academic journal Nature recently selected the “Seven Major Aging Intervention Technologies,” including a β-nicotinamide derivative from the Harvard laboratory, which was put into experiment. Sinclair, who discovered how the substance works, revealed that there is an important coenzyme called NAD +, which is equivalent to the body’s energy production plant, but its content is not static and will decrease with age. This is the cause of problems like aging and depression. Scientists have discovered the β-nicotinamide derivative adds enzyme levels to longevity. However, the price barrier of β-nicotinamide is a major hurdle to address. The famous investment bank Bank of America Merrill Lynch forecasts that the global anti-aging industry has a huge potential market of up to $ 600 billion. Realize the immortal dream with technology Biological immortality from life-prolonging technology only helps people have a few decades of life expectancy, which is not the final destination of the human future. Now, the new achievements of artificial intelligence (AI) will open up a promising direction. The move from Elon Musk’s computer-brain research recently went beyond the experimental basis, showing that the line between humans and AI is almost broken. From the idea that was once thought to be crazy, the research achievements of Elon Musk and scientists were able to initially modify human limitations. The first trials have been effective in patients with polio, the next challenge that this project aims to be to break human limits … Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface opens the door to breaking human boundaries After brain-computer interfaces, gene editing, nano-robots or the advent of an artificial heart, the new achievements add new magical weapons to the realm of life-prolonging technology. The company’s most recent achievement Promobot has released a new robot model developed by artificial intelligence covered entirely with artificial leather. This robot can express more than 600 expressions by making eye, eyebrow, lip and body movements similar to a real person. If it is possible to combine with medical nanotechnology or cloning based on cloning techniques, create living individuals with genetically identical multicellular structure using metamaterial metamaterials, at the same time In terms of human intelligence, consciousness, and memory, such as the Avatar Project (or Project of Life) by tycoon Dmitry Itskov, that’s when people can literally become immortal and dream “wisdom. “artificial intelligence” will become a reality. Some futurists say that before our bodies can achieve immortality, we can fully connect our thoughts with the mechanical world, and we will live well in the cloud. Even a Swedish funeral company has been looking for volunteers to allow deceased loved ones to be tested in hopes of creating robotic copies of their loved ones. In the near future, humans will be able to store their consciousness on hardware, meaning the portal to digital immortality has opened up.

Detroit’s explanation of the origins of artificial intelligence (AI) differs from reality. But basically artificial intelligence is still understood as a science fiction concept, a robot or a thinking machine. In fact, artificial intelligence is a complex program or algorithm, often focusing on machine learning standards. There is a funny story in the AI ​​science community: “Once something is realized with artificial intelligence, people will no longer call it artificial intelligence.” Indeed, with the advent of Siri and Duplex, linguistic AI applications, people are no longer using Turing Test to test the method of operation and the intelligence level of machine learning. Of course, many people still believe that machines cannot pass the Turing Test because it cannot understand human emotions through language. After all, humans themselves cannot fully understand how the brain works, of course they cannot give exact definitions of a “human-like” machine or set scientific standards. to measure it. And now, when artificial intelligence is bringing people closer to immortal life, humanity’s vision is once again expanding. Artificial intelligence paves the way to immortality In February 2011, the Avatar Project, also known as the Longevity Project, was started with the sponsorship of Russian media tycoon Dmitry Itskov. This is a project that creates immortality by transferring all of human intelligence, consciousness, and memory into computers, helping people get out of their physical form and exist in an Internet network in the form of waves. electronic. “For the next 30 years, I will make sure we can all live forever. I believe 100% of it will happen ”, the Russian billionaire confirmed. According to the roadmap, the Avatar Project will advance to phase 4 in 2045, when humans can give up their flesh and bones to take over the machine body and begin an immortal life with robots capable of change. shape according to thought. The year 2045 is also the time when artificial intelligence brings human immortality as predicted by the American inventor and futurist Raymond Kurzweil. He was the one who accurately predicted when computers would defeat the chess champion in 1997. Meanwhile, futurist Dr. Ian Pearson said that “humans will be immortal by year. 2060 ”. Whether it is the year 2045 or 2060 as predicted by the scientists, all confirmed that at some point, humans can completely connect their thoughts with the machine world, and we will live well in the cloud thanks to Digital immortality. The purpose is similar to the Avatar Project, but billionaire Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface, developed by Neuralink, does not put a lot of time on. This is a neural technology company founded in 2016, headquartered in San Francisco (USA), with specialization in brain-computer interface (BMI) development. Once there were many negative comments about artificial intelligence, even considering it a threat to humanity, Elon Musk finally set Neuralink for the long-term goal of achieving “symbiosis with human intelligence. create “. Currently, this brain-computer interface has gone beyond the laboratory facility and initially recognizing achievements for polio patients. In Neuralink’s latest experiment, the video of a monkey playing a game after being implanted in a brain chip caused shock in public opinion. Not only Avatar and brain-computer interface have brought positive results, there are a series of other projects that have also been promoted to quickly reveal the mysterious curtain of human immortality. In particular, artificial intelligence is still the focus of research and is also the most controversial area. “Life in the cloud” goes hand in hand with real life While researchers are still making proposals to legalize commercial applications of artificial intelligence, especially clones that possess human consciousness based on ethical standards, there are still many ideas. Pessimism about the future of AI. There is even an opinion that artificial intelligence will destroy humanity when out of control. However, “artificial intelligence not only does not destroy people but also gives people immortality” – said Baidu founder Ly Ngan Hoanh at the World Internet Conference in 2019. This is also is the view that has received the support of many scientists, especially the futurists. They believe that artificial intelligence will help people live forever thanks to digital immortality. Digital immortality is a new concept that has emerged in the past few decades and is defined as “the extension of active / passive digital existence after death”. This means that advanced knowledge management, AI, data mining, machine-to-machine communication with the function of presence after death, are now available in a number of projects specializing in creating characters. digital immortality. Typically Avatar, with the illustrated version of the user or the person’s personality in 2D or 3D form, possesses the ability to “think” and act according to the recorded data. These avatars are capable of constantly learning, developing and interacting autonomously if they still exist in the virtual world. This form closely resembles Romanbot, part of a realm of “augmented eternity” in the way that the human mind can be downloaded, recreated, and transformed into other forms. “Eventually the mind will become information that can move, just like files can move from device to device and live in the cloud,” said Michael Graziano, professor of psychology and the sciences. says at Princeton University. According to Alex Zhavoronkov (CEO Insilico Medicine), that is when artificial intelligence saves us from death instead of leading to a bizarre apocalypse. In fact, the AI ​​hub’s origins can be traced back to the 1968 anti-commercialization rebellion according to the data in Truls Unholt’s Vagant, while immortality in the “virtual world” goes hand in hand with the world. It is the destination that people will reach in the near future. Up to the present time, is the time to change our thinking about human union with technology and start thinking as a co-consciousness, instead of perpetuating the “mind” as Ideas by Stephen Hawking and Milton Friedman. As Robert Hertz wrote in 1907, we have two lives – one living in nature, one living in culture. Now, humanity will have one more life, an immortal life thanks to artificial intelligence technology, and in the words of future doctor Micho Kaku, it is just a “matter of time”.

The delegates cut the ribbon to launch the training program of artificial intelligence and robot technology. (Photo: Thu Hoai / VNA) On April 24, Ho Chi Minh City National University held the launching ceremony of the Training Program artificial intelligence and Robot technology (AIC). The program is invested more than 32 billion VND, is part of the 320 billion VND sponsorship package of Inter-Pacific Group (IPPG) for National University of Ho Chi Minh City and Dalat University to establish a training school. CEO creation and AI education development. Held at the Software Technology Zone of Ho Chi Minh City National University, the STEM, STEAM interdisciplinary curriculum on artificial intelligence (AI) for students in age, level of education, right from grade 1. Regarding the document, the AI ​​Future Intelligent Manufacture syllabus of UBtech education USA Company copyrighted by IPPG, adjusted by the National University of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnameseized, evaluated and published, put into teaching. This is also a program that has been taught by many advanced countries in the world. The program includes activities such as: AI-Robotics program and summer courses for students; teacher training course AI-Robotics from basic to advanced; organize seminars on AI-Robotics for the community and businesses. This is also a space to experience, introduce and display IT application solutions, artificial intelligence of domestic and foreign corporations, enterprises, and AI scientific products of students. University. Mr. Truong Minh Huy Vu, Director of Software Technology Zone, Ho Chi Minh City National University , sharing the process of Vietnameseization and document appraisal, in addition to the participation of teachers, scientists in the field of computer science and AI, there are also experts in social fields. language, pedagogy so that knowledge is closer to students and students. Building learning materials is a continuous process, so in the coming time, the curriculum of the program will continue to be improved and adjusted to suit with reality. Associate Professor, Dr. Vu Hai Quan, Director of Ho Chi Minh City National University, shared that the unit is currently participating in training and research on artificial intelligence both in depth and in width. In which, in depth, the National University of Ho Chi Minh City is preparing to establish the artificial intelligence research institute; at the same time undertaking the task of training high-quality human resources at international level, in which chaired many component projects on information technology, artificial intelligence … Along with that, the National University of Ho Chi Minh City also focuses on programs in width such as implementing training programs for artificial intelligence and technology. Robot , to spread knowledge about AI more to the community, especially among students; thereby provoking, transmitting passion for scientific research to students, discovering and fostering new factors in the field of AI research. Ms. Le Hong Thuy Tien, General Director of Lien Pacific Group, said the Artificial Intelligence and Robot Technology Training Program was the first center in IPPG’s AI education development strategy chain in 5 years. It is expected that from now to 2025, IPPG will coordinate with universities and educational institutions to establish 10 more AI centers and deploy 1,800 AI Lab at schools and educational institutions nationwide. with the goal of AI training for more than 2.5 million students per year./.

The EU proposes to strictly restrict the use of facial recognition The draft law adds that feature face recognition “Real-time”, using live tracking instead of past shots or photos in public spaces by authorities should only be used for a limited amount of time and it should be prior consent from a judge or a national authority. The document comes as privacy advocates, politicians and European citizens increasingly speak up about the use of direct facial recognition. Currently, there is no clear regulation on how and where technology can be used by the public, so the proposed law would be the first law to codify these restrictions into law. The introduction of stricter restrictions on the use of facial recognition technology will likely rekindle debate over whether this activity should be banned entirely, as scene experts report that it’s still risky. In a landmark ruling last August, the UK Court of Appeals found the use of facial recognition to be illegal by the South Wales Police and that it violates privacy, data protection law and equality law. The draft EU law also addresses a range of related issues such as algorithmic interference, the argument that technology used in recruitment and financial operations should be played out. development so as not to repeat “historical forms of discrimination” against ethnic minority groups. EU regulators have proposed a hefty fine of up to 6% of a company’s global revenue if found to abuse artificial intelligence in this way or with no prejudice detected when hiring workers or Service Provider. They added that so-called social scoring, which measures a person’s trustworthiness from behavioral data gathered about them, should also be banned. In China, for example, a system is being developed to calculate a person’s credit score using information about their online habits. “The social score obtained … can lead to the adverse or unfavorable treatment of a person or group of people … irrespective of the context in which the data was originally generated”, said the leak. These proposals will now be discussed by the European Parliament and member states until at least 2023 before becoming a formal law. Phan Van Hoa (According to Arstechnica)

This is the 7th consecutive year, Viettel stands at the business position with the most awards. Although the year Sao Khue Awards had many nominations (294 records) and the first prize in the 18-year history of the organization, Viettel still accounted for 12% of the total number of nominees. With the mission of pioneering and key building a digital society, Viettel brings to Sao Khue 2021 products with 4.0 technology using Big Data technology such as the Data Operating System; Viettel AI Open Platform – Artificial intelligence platform, Cloud electronic one-stop system; … telecommunications network management solutions. ViettelSale’s sales management software of Viettel Post Corporation made a strong impression on BTC when the impressive growth figure of 5108% compared to 2019 (from a revenue of more than 7 billion VND in 2019 to 375 VND billion in 2020). S-tracking ship management system is in the top 10 best Sao Khue products. Products to help management agencies and fishermen trace the origin of seafood, limit illegal exploitation; Emergency warning when there is an incident, support the fastest rescue and rescue; Two-way communication between fishermen and relatives on shore. S-Tracking is being used by more than 3500 ships and boats, bringing the value of ~ 100 billion VND. The Sao Khue Award in 2021 with the theme “Digital transformation impulse – Connect and Share” attracted 9 units from 6 areas of digital transformation of Viettel Group to participate. Sao Khue is an annual award established in 2003 by the Vietnam Software and Information Technology Services Association (Vinasa), for outstanding software products and services of domestic enterprises. Sao Khue title 2020 focuses on digital transformation products that promote connection and sharing in Vietnam. In 2017, Viettel had 10 winning products, in 2018 there were 14 products, in 2019 there were 12 winning products and in 2020 Viettel had 21 winning products.

In 2017, it was reported that the AI ​​had beaten the leading Go player in the world. Compared to chess or chess, go is characterized by a wide table with long moves, depending on the situation that the value of the stone (chess piece) changes. “Don’t lose to AI” is the opposite of nature Applying the same approach to chess as “memorizing all moves, calculating the most appropriate move” is difficult. Therefore, it was thought that the ability of computers to win against humans was in the future. However, AlphaZero, a Google DeepMind software released in October 2017, has become very powerful by deliberately self-learning rather than using data as gameplay profiles of previous players as models. . Moreover, not only Go but AlphaZero can play other games as well. Computers have gone away from human hands, can learn and grow up on their own. AI has evolved at such an amazing rate. Ray Kurzweil, who has authority in the field, says that 2045 will be the time to reach the “Technological Singularity”. Artificial intelligence will surpass human intelligence and the world will have big changes. Discussion about what to equip yourself to avoid being robbed of jobs by AI, to prepare in advance what you can do and AI is not spreading. However, for me that is not realistic. Predictions of “things the AI ​​can’t do” can also be overturned. Just by looking at the current rate of evolution, we can also confirm that a transformation beyond the ordinary human imagination will inevitably happen. Therefore, the mindset “Just trying to learn things that AI cannot do” will only create risks without enriching people’s lives. “Living and treating not failing with AI as the goal” is against the nature of the incident. Perhaps that is to give AI a human life. Whether AI or not, the story of “whether I live my life deeply or not” is the most important thing. To deepen humanity, I think it makes a lot of sense to read books about AI, predict the future. Surely you will be able to enrich humanity by deepening your thinking with books like “If AI possesses intelligence over the human brain, things like exchange information in a way. very ‘human’ is probably going to be a simple matter. If so, what will help man to become more ‘human’? What will he be pursuing from man? “. “If artificial intelligence had a reason beyond the human brain, would the expressions expressing the ‘human’ nature still be simple? If so, what will help people become more ‘human’? What am I going to pursue in human? ”, Surely you will enrich the human life. AI has evolved amazingly. Photo: in.springboard. For the human future We humans are “Homo sapiens = wise people”. Being able to share wisdom with others and pass it on to the next generation is the great point of Homo sapiens. If you go to a bookstore or library, the ancient East-West wisdom will fill in a narrow place. Great people have spent their whole lives searching for the truth or devoting themselves to sublimating in literary form, archived in book form, and can be read by anyone. Therefore, humans can make wisdom to progress. If you just talk to your family and friends, a monkey or a dog can do it too. Even ants are doing it too (they may not speak out loud, but they have a rich way of communicating). However, the animals and insects were incapable of knowing what people in other regions and eras were thinking. Not reading is a loss of pride as a “wise man”. If the capacity to concentrate weakens and man not only “does not read” but becomes “unreadable”, the future of mankind will no longer be bright. Again, I’m not saying that the Internet and the social network (SNS) are bad. These amazing tools are also something born of human intelligence. The point is to use them appropriately. However, it’s a waste to get completely bogged down in it and forget the joy of reading. Reading is a privilege to be enjoyed. It is also the most wonderful thing that can deepen our life. I think it is in the golden age of the Internet and today’s social networking, to once again focus on reading is essential.

From the experience of some successful countries in digital transformation, identifying the characteristics of the 4.0 era, the authors offer a solution to the problem of human resources and talents for Vietnam to successfully convert numbers. LTS: Industrial revolution 4.0 opens a new era of development. There, a country that cares about building human resources, talent that quickly adapts to the times, knows how to use advanced technology and constantly innovates, that country will win in this fierce competition. We have synergistic advantages that not all countries have. Due to historical circumstances, we have a plentiful amount of overseas Vietnamese intellectual resources. Hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese scientists, experts and engineers are in countries with advanced science, many of whom are great experts, famous professors, and excellent engineers in human intelligence. Create is working for major industrial corporations, leading universities and research institutes in the world. Apply advanced data analysis and machine learning to smart fraud management in e-commerce. Photo: idea.gov.vn Another advantage is that currently, we have about 900,000 human resources in the information technology field, there are a large number of engineers in artificial intelligence, data science … The number of engineers in Blockchain and Fintech is on the rise. These viable factors do not turn into power by themselves, but require wise and creative leadership, organization and combination, knowing how to choose and focus resources on priority goals to create. so the synergy brought the country to a breakthrough. Those advantages are only brought into play when we have a contingent of talented, caring and competent national leaders. Challenges for human resources Besides advantages, our human resources have many limitations and weaknesses. Specifically, the number of untrained human resources is too large, accounting for 75% of the workforce, about 45 million people, which is a rather gloomy picture if we do not quickly equip the right skills. The World Economic Forum’s 2018 report assesses that our human resources are not ready for the 4.0 era, ranked 70 out of 100 countries. Also due to the low skill and nature of labor, our people are vulnerable to technological breakthroughs, losing their jobs and being replaced by automation, intelligent robots, and artificial intelligence. The number of 25% trained also has many problems. Vocational training quality ranks 80/100 countries, only higher than Cambodia (92/100), highly skilled human resources are also in the bottom group, ranking 81/100 countries. We are also close to the penultimate of 90 out of 100 countries in technology and innovation, especially the labor productivity is too low, only 7% of Singapore … Not to mention that there will be a large number of talented people. to other countries if we do not have a clear improvement in the working environment and regimes, policies … Furthermore, the manufacturing base is not ready for Industry 4.0, which belongs to the group of the book team, the average score is 4.9 / 10 – below the average, of which the production structure index is 4.96 / 10. ranked 48/100 countries, production motivation index reached 4.93 / 10, ranked 53rd. Two difficult human resources problems In order to bring into play the advantages and to overcome and overcome the challenges, we have to solve 3 very difficult problems at the same time. Firstly, the requirements for developing skilled human resources and talented people who are ready for digital transformation are extremely large, both in quantity and quality, while the education and training system, especially the elite. Study and vocational training are still weak and cannot be overcome overnight. Second, we need to maintain a consistently high GDP growth rate (over 7% / year) to reach the goal of becoming a high-income country by 2045, while the GDP growth momentum tends to slow down. over the 10-year span in the 1991-2018 period as pointed out by economist Tran Dinh Thien. Third, we need to develop and fully exploit advanced technology and constantly innovate, towards an economy based on innovation, increasing productivity, competitiveness and efficiency while The national innovation system is not only weak and stagnant, but also lacks strong enough pressure and motivation, lacks momentum and a favorable environment for development. Thus, we have to clear up growth bottlenecks and create new growth engines, at the same time we have to solve 2 difficult human resources problems to meet the requirements of the digital transformation period. Firstly, quickly equip the right skills for the majority of people to adapt to the digital transformation, and second, build a team of talent transforming core numbers with the spirit of innovation and leadership. the country’s digital transformation journey. Next period: Blocking skill gaps so as not to be dragged into the 4.0 era Dr. Pham Manh Hung – Dr. Bui Khac Linh (Institute of World Economics and Politics)

Technology solutions using artificial intelligence (AI) and IoT for smart schools by PHX Educational Technology and Service Joint Stock Company (PHX Smart School) – a member unit of Phenikaa Group has voted as the excellent product / solution of the software, information technology (IT) industry of Vietnam in the field of Education and Training and awarded Sao Khue Prize 2021. The technology solution of PHX Smart School is a centralized management system that is intelligent, connected and linked information from many sources together to create an intelligent integrated information system, combining applications. technology in the classroom and application of technology in management onto one platform; The school focuses on four basic objects of school: student, parent, teacher, and administrator. This solution is researched and developed by Phenikaa Group’s staff and commercial packaging, using AI and IoT to record data, update and notify realtime information to the school. , teachers, parents, ensure information is updated, extracted and reported quickly, fully, at the right time, to the right people. PHX Smart School solution integrates software to support training processes, helps schools deploy online teaching and learning activities, and shares video lectures conveniently to support more effective learning; integrated online testing system, allowing the creation of multiple-choice and marking exams right after completing the lesson, or essay exams marked by teachers and reporting results to students and parents use. This is also an electronic contact book, connecting the school with parents easily through apps on Android and iOs. In particular, PHX Smart School integrates smart route monitoring system, accurate attendance with face … automatically connects and updates information quickly to families about student’s status upon arrival at school. , ensuring safety for students. In addition, this solution also has the ability to actively measure body temperature, monitor the body temperature of objects entering and leaving the campus to ensure the school’s epidemic prevention. PHX Smart School is considered to be a comprehensive smart digital transformation solution for schools in school management in many different aspects, from safe management for students while traveling to school, Identifying and warning of dangerous situations, payment, management of training activities, enrollment, facilities, personnel and other activities of the school … Although only recently launched, PHX Smart School solution has been contracted for implementation, practical application by major schools in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City and received many positive reviews. In the coming time, with the support from Phenikaa Group, will inherit advanced technologies and services that have been researched and developed by institutes, research and development centers and enterprises in the ecosystem. Phenikaa, PHX Smart School continues to pursue the goal of digitalization in the field of education, towards becoming the leading technology company in smart solutions for schools in Vietnam and expanding into international markets. In 2021, PHX Smart School’s educational technology solution excellently overcame nearly 300 solutions and services from 161 enterprises and was awarded Sao Khue Award.

Du Lan, Senior Vice President of iFLYTEK, HKUST

The four-day Boao Forum for Asia 2021 Annual Conference will be held in Boao, Hainan from April 18th to 21st. During the meeting, Du Lan, senior vice president of iFLYTEK, said that when he talked about the development trend of artificial intelligence in the next ten years, Intelligence will provide new opportunities for industrial development in four aspects, and will also generate more new landing application scenarios.

First, we are in the era of interconnection of all things, human-computer interaction will become more and more convenient, and the future will also enter the era of interconnection of all things. “As we all see now, for example, there are many people on the scene using intelligent equipment to convert speech.” Dulan believes that with the advancement of this technology, it is not only in speech recognition, but more The application scenarios, such as returning to home, in the car, etc., can be interconnected and interacted with all things. Among these, there are very good industrial development patterns and prospects, which will also bring changes to everyone’s lives.

Second, with the direction of human cognitive intelligence and the continuous deepening of research and development, we can continue to expand applications in the direction of machine learning. Therefore, various new industry applications will gradually deepen, such as education and medical care. , Smart City and other fields. The biggest feature of artificial intelligence is that it can quickly learn the knowledge field of human experts, so that it can quickly exceed 90% of ordinary people. Therefore, it can empower ordinary people with the best human experts. From this point, artificial intelligence There will be new applications in many industries.

The third is the change of emotional appeal, that is, the computing power of emotion will increase, and the communication of modern people will be satisfied through the recognition of human emotion and the synthesis of emotion, which will also produce some new industry fields and applications.

The fourth and most important point is that the development of brain-computer interfaces is getting faster and faster. Our research on brain science and the impact of brain-computer interface hybrid collaboration technology on technology and life will also bring the heart of related industries. development of.

Based on the above viewpoints, Dulan believes that the future will be a golden decade for the development of artificial intelligence.

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A manuscript of the “Dead Sea Scroll” is displayed in Hong Kong. The analysis showed that the two scribes wrote in such a way that the difference between the two could not be seen with the naked eye, a detail that the note takers may have had the same training, yes can be at a school or in a social setting. “This is just the first step,” said lead investigator Mladen Popović, professor of the Hebrew Bible and ancient Judaism at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, said. new ability to study all of the scribes behind the “Dead Sea Scroll” and put us in a new position and better able to understand the manuscript collection. ” The “Dead Sea Scroll” was first discovered in the late 1940s, when a young shepherd searching for a stray goat found several manuscripts in a cave in Qumran, on the West Bank. Over the next decade, researchers and local Bedouins found more than 900 manuscripts in 11 caves. These manuscripts are the oldest surviving surviving texts of the Hebrew Bible, dating from the fourth century BC to the second century AD, but who is unknown or even how much. many wrote them, because the scribes did not sign them. That doesn’t stop Bible scholars from guessing how many people participated in writing the various drafts of the Dead Sea Scroll. Researchers will try to find clues in handwriting, such as a very specific feature in a letter that will identify the scribe. Popović, director of the Qumran Institute at the University of Groningen and his colleagues used a different approach: AI and statistics to investigate the Great Isaiah Scroll, one of seven original scroll manuscripts found. by the shepherd Bedouin. The well-preserved scroll, dating to about 125 BC, is 7.3 m long and 26 cm high and contains 54 columns of Hebrew text. In particular, a point caught Popović’s eye; Between columns 27 and 28, there is a small gap in the text and a new “page” where the two sheets have been stitched together. Other researchers have debated whether the scroll was written by one or two scribes, and Popović’s team wants to see if they can solve the mystery. In fact, the team wanted to determine whether slight differences in writing should be considered normal variations in one scribe’s handwriting or similar scripts written by two other scribes. each other or not. The researchers’ methods have uncovered subtle and nuanced differences in handwriting that we cannot discern with the naked eye, Popović said. The discovery of two collaborative notes in the Great Isaiah Scroll, he said, suggests that ancient scribes were working in groups. The ancients knew how to work in groups When designing the algorithm, researchers must train artificial intelligence to distinguish text, or ink, from the background – animal skin or papyrus. This difference, called binarization, was designed by co-researcher Maruf Dhali, a PhD student in the department of artificial intelligence at the University of Groningen, who created an artificial neural network. This neural network recorded early ink traces on the manuscript, even as these ancient letters were transformed into digital images. Senior researcher Lambert Schomaker, professor of computer science and artificial intelligence at the University of Groningen, said: “This is very important because ancient ink traces are directly related to the motor movement of one person and characterize each person ”. Neural network analysis revealed that 54 columns of text in the “Great Book of Isaiah” split into two separate groups, with a half-way transition in the manuscript. In this second analysis, Schomaker looked at small pieces, or sections of letters that would be more precise, distinctive, and informative to find a significant difference in shape compared to the symbols. full order. Next, the team performed a visual analysis by creating a “heat map”. These maps incorporate all variations of a given letter, such as the Hebrew letter aleph (א), found in the scroll. They then create an average version of the letter from the first 27 columns and another from the last 27 columns. They then compared these averaged letters and found that they could easily spot the difference between the two letters. Furthermore, the difference was statistically significant. Popović and his colleagues have other investigative plans, possibly revealing different backgrounds or training different scribes. These analyzes may also shed light on the communities that wrote the “Dead Sea Book”. This helps to better understand the so-called cultural evolution of the Hebrew Bible. The new research was published online April 21 in the journal PLOS One.

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On April 20th, the Boao Forum for Asia 2021 annual meeting was held. Du Lan, senior vice president of iFLYTEK and chairman of Guangdong Artificial Intelligence Industry Association, said in an interview that at the critical moment of upgrading traditional industries, industrial digitization is very important .and An important factor that determines the digitalization of the industry is whether it can persist in the innovation of the source core technology.

“This year’s GDP goal is to reach 6%, and the investment in scientific research during the 14th Five-Year Plan period will reach 7%, of which the investment in basic research and development will reach 10.6%, and a ten-year plan for basic research is also proposed.” Du Lan said.

Dulan pointed out that the continuous growth of the performance of some enterprises in the development of artificial intelligence last year shows that artificial intelligence is not only a fun black technology, but also can solve people’s practical problems. For example, AI + medical has entered thousands of households, and intelligent medical assistants can assist in the diagnosis and treatment of 95% of common diseases. These have brought many changes in the industry.

What is the future development trend of artificial intelligence? Dulan believes that first, human-computer interaction will become more and more convenient, and it will enter the era of intelligent connection of all things. Nowadays, many people are using intelligent equipment for voice conversion, but with the advancement of technology, not only voice recognition but also cars and other things can be interconnected and interacted. Second, the various applications of artificial intelligence in various industries will gradually deepen, such as education, medical care, and smart cities in various fields. Third, emotional appeals will also change. We will recognize emotions to satisfy the communication of modern people, and also create some new industries.

“ The future will be a new decade facing the development of artificial intelligence. “Duran said.

What are the current bottlenecks and breakthroughs in China’s technological development? Du Lan said that “standing upright” is very important, and technology and applications should be combined to serve the production and life of the majority of people.

She said that “Dingtian” is to seek an irreplaceable position and continue to increase investment in research and development. For example, China provides a lot of convenience for everyone in terms of massive data and capital enthusiasm and even the openness of the application market, while the United States is more superior in core research and development, high-end talent reserves and patent capabilities, and breakthroughs are needed in these points.

She said that “site” is in application. China has great determination in application, has stronger capabilities, and has a better application market. It is necessary to accelerate the opening of application scenarios to continuously iterate AI technology and make the application better.

Image source: Visual China Reporter Cui Puyu Reporter Cui Puyu The European Union on Wednesday announced a series of strict regulations governing the use of artificial intelligence, including restrictions on the use of facial recognition software by the police in public places. This has become one of the most extensive actions in this regard so far. According to the proposal published by the European Commission (the EU executive agency), the use of artificial intelligence in a series of activities will be restricted, including autonomous vehicles, bank loan applications, university admissions, and examination scoring. It will also cover the use of artificial intelligence by law enforcement systems and courts, an area that is often regarded as “high risk” because it may threaten people’s safety or basic rights. Some uses will be completely banned, including real-time facial recognition in public places. However, for national security or other purposes, there may be some exemptions, such as to prevent terrorist attacks, find missing children, or resolve other public safety emergencies. If the 108-page proposal is passed, it will not only have a profound impact on large technology companies such as Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft. These companies have invested a lot of resources in the development of artificial intelligence; at the same time, they will also invest in the use of this technology for research and development. Drugs, underwriting insurance, and other companies that judge creditworthiness have had an impact. According to this proposal, companies that violate the new regulations will face fines of up to 6% of their global sales.

Over the past ten years, the EU has been the most active in the world in terms of technology industry regulation, and its regulatory policies are often used as templates by other countries. The 27-nation group has promulgated the world’s most influential data privacy bill, and is discussing other antitrust and content review regulations.

European Commission Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager said that the regulatory regulations address the risks that artificial intelligence poses to humans and society in certain special applications. “We think this is an emergency, and we are the first on this planet to propose this legal framework.”

Some digital rights activists welcomed some of the regulations, but pointed out that some other factors seemed too vague, and there were too many loopholes to be drilled. Some people in the industry believe that EU regulations will benefit Chinese companies because the latter do not have to face the constraints of similar regulations.

Benjamin Mueller, a senior policy analyst at the Center for Data Innovation, a technology think tank, pointed out that regulations will make the cost of research and development of artificial intelligence in Europe too high, or even technically infeasible. “When the European Union suppresses its own start-ups, the United States and China will watch happily on the sidelines.”

However, some lobbyists in the technology industry believe that the proposal is not so harsh and feel relieved. They praised some clauses, such as strictly regulating only certain types of so-called high-risk artificial intelligence applications.

Christian Borggreen, vice chairman of the Computer & Communications Industry Association, pointed out that the European Commission has adopted a risk-based approach, which is good. The association represents a number of technology giants including Amazon, Facebook and Google.

However, Wednesday’s proposal still has a long way to go before it becomes law and may be adjusted. In the European Union, such laws must be approved by the European Council, which represents the governments of the EU’s 27 countries, and the directly elected European Parliament. The entire process may take several years.

From Matthias Reiche, ARD studio Brussels The potential of artificial intelligence, or AI for short, is great. As are the risks associated with AI. The EU Commission therefore wants to create trust with clear rules, says Vice President Margrethe Vestager. “Our proposal is therefore not concerned with the AI ​​itself, but with its applications.” The EU Commission has chosen a proportional and risk-based approach based on a simple logic: “The higher the risk of a specific type of use of the AI, the stricter the rules.”

Four categories of “hazard potential”

On this basis, Brussels has drawn up four categories into which the individual applications can be classified. In the opinion of the EU Commission, most AI systems fall into the categories of “small” or “no” risk, such as video games or filters for spam messages. The bill does not provide for any regulations here. However, even with the more harmless applications, it should always be completely clear when you are dealing with artificial intelligence in a telephone hotline, for example. But you have to be particularly vigilant with the so-called high-risk applications, explains Commission Vice-President Vestager: “For example, this is about AI that is used to select applications for university or a job. It can also be about systems that the creditworthiness of evaluate someone. Or software that is used in self-driving cars or in medical products, which could also pose a risk to our safety. ” In these cases, the respective providers must guarantee that their product complies with the rules. There should be precise documentation for the development and use of such systems, as well as precise control of the data used. The use of artificial intelligence in generalized surveillance or manipulation of the population is completely forbidden, as is so-called social scoring, in which people are rated on the basis of their social behavior.

Biometrics inadequately regulated?

The FDP politician Nicola Beer is still not really satisfied with the paper. Because it lacks a clear ban on facial recognition in public spaces, as the Vice-President of the EU Parliament criticizes: “The current draft would enable mass surveillance with the help of biometric AI algorithms. In my opinion, a red line will be crossed here. We must not allow this . ” Patrick Breyer, who sits for the Pirate Party in the EU Parliament, sees it similarly: The new AI law can also be interpreted by the EU countries, for example in criminal prosecution, in such a way that it enables biometric mass surveillance where it is illegal today . “The fact that the Commission wants to enable mass surveillance of our telecommunications and biometric mass surveillance to a large extent is completely unacceptable.” The draft has yet to be approved by the EU Parliament and the Council of Member States. This legislative process can take up to two years.

Prof, Dr. Dao Van Long shared scientific information about digestive diseases. Facing the fact that the rate of missing lesions in gastrointestinal endoscopy is still high, one of the reasons is due to the patient’s colon cleansing process is not up to the standard, the Digestive Research and Training Institute, the liver. honey has researched and released the application “colon cleansing” on Android and iOS platforms. These are the information shared by Professor, Dr. Dao Van Long – former Director of Hanoi Medical University Hospital, former head of the gastroenterology department of Bach Mai Hospital, the Founding Council of the Digestive and Hepatology Research and Training Institute. at the launching ceremony of facility 2 of Hoang Long General Clinic on April 21st morning. According to Professor Dao Van Long, this is the first phone application in Vietnam to go deeply into the field of endoscopy to support patient guidance. Accordingly, when going to a colonoscopy and examination, the patient will download this application and directly manipulate the phone to monitor the entire colon cleaning process in the most detailed way. According to statistics, gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary diseases currently account for about 30% of the total number of patients visiting medical facilities, but the ability to respond is limited, and the number of endoscopists can only respond. corresponding to 5% – 10% of the population. Every day in large centers, there are more than 300 cases of endoscopy that can lead to missed lesions and endoscopic quality is not really guaranteed, there is a risk of infection from endoscopy. Therefore, the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in health in general and gastrointestinal endoscopy in particular is not only suitable for the current trend, but also a necessary direction for the medical industry by Great benefits such as contributing to improving the detection rate, avoiding missing injuries as well as saving human resources for health are currently in short supply. Currently, the Digestive and Hepatobiliary Research and Training Institute has initially developed software to apply artificial intelligence in endoscopy to detect colon polyps in Vietnam. When put into operation, the application will contribute to meeting the needs of screening and screening for polyps and colon cancer in our country, while enhancing Vietnam’s medical technology with new and progressive steps. more, comparable to regional and international. In particular, with the introduction of the new Fuji 7000 endoscopy system featuring advanced image magnification up to 290 times, LCI / BLI multi-beam technology combines short-wavelength light and white light for images. The high contrast of microchips and microstructure of the mucosal surface helps detect cancer in an early stage, even very early, but if endoscopy with white light will easily miss the lesion. Dr. Dao Viet Hang shares scientific information on AI application in colonoscopy. Dr. Dao Viet Hang, Deputy Director of Hanoi Medical University Hospital Endoscopy Center, Deputy General Secretary of the Vietnam Society of Gastrointestinal Science, said software applying artificial intelligence in endoscopy to detect polyps colon in Vietnam will build an effective machine learning algorithm for detecting and localizing polyps through endoscopic images; initially assessing the accuracy of colon polyps detection and localization algorithm. “We expect that in the next 1-2 years, Vietnam will launch a system applying artificial intelligence algorithms so that doctors in remote and deep areas can learn about lesion classification and detection of lesions. This system is attached to different endoscopy systems at the grassroots level, reducing the injury detection rate “, Dr. Hang shared.

Baidu’s chairman Robin Li once mentioned countless times that “the future is the era of artificial intelligence.” In this regard, former Baidu chief researcher Wu Enda explained, In the future, some things can be done not by the human brain, but by artificial intelligence to free people from repetitive chores and focus on creating value for the most creative fields.

Freeing humans from trivial labor and focusing only on creative activities and thinking, the artificial intelligence blueprint drawn in this way is infinitely yearning. Now, in addition to doing repetitive labor, artificial intelligence is also stepping into creative activities.

In fact, many media are already using AI to write news articles, and even the shadow of artificial intelligence has appeared in the design field. During Taobao Double 11, one poster on the Taobao website was released every 20 minutes, and about 400 million posters were released during the entire Double 11 period. If these posters are manually designed, and a designer can complete up to 50 posters a day, it will take 340,000 days to produce hundreds of millions of posters, which is about 9,000 years.

This shows that artificial intelligence still has many advantages in product design. It not only has super computing power, can complete complex computing tasks in a short time, but also is not affected by human subjective emotions, and can evaluate design schemes relatively fairly. Therefore, the introduction of artificial intelligence in the design can accumulate and use experience and knowledge, and can quickly and efficiently optimize the design plan, and can continuously explore the best design plan.

At this stage, the level of artificial intelligence in design is obviously not completely on par with humans, but the AI ​​system can monitor and capture information in real time, and quickly generate related design products. Now, in addition to uploading design materials to the AI ​​system by users themselves, the desired design is automatically formed, The AI ​​system can also automatically analyze the user’s visual preferences from the pictures, videos, and texts that the user has browsed, and then quickly complete the design pictures that the user wants.

Such an artificial intelligence system has a high technical content, but it still relies on big data for calculation, not a real “thought design.” Recently, scientists have proposed a “Human-in-the-learning-loop HILL” framework.

This framework consists of a design thinking process (Design sprint) and is integrated into an agile development process. This process can replace qualitative user testing by quantitative measurement of user feedback. This replacement can provide scalable teaching feedback for subsequent learning cycles.

The HILL design cycle process can replace the design perception of quantitative psychometric tools for qualitative user testing. The generated user feedback is used to train the machine learning model and guide along the four design dimensions (novelty, energy, simplicity, instrumentality) In the subsequent design cycle, the four-dimensional user feedback is then mapped to user scenarios and priorities, and the thinking process will directly transform user feedback into an implementation process.

The person in the loop is a quality inspector who will carefully check the collected user feedback to prevent invalid data from entering the machine learning model training. This thinking framework is conducive to allowing artificial intelligence to have real “thinking”. In the future, once it can be developed and utilized, it will bring unexpected surprises to humans in the field of design.

China’s test network connects 40 top universities in preparation for a society powered by artificial intelligence (Image: Shutterstock) Located at Tsinghua University, “Future Internet Technology Base” connects 40 universities, the country’s leading research institute with much lower bandwidth and latency than the current Internet. ; According to the Xinhua state news agency. This facility will serve as the “backbone” for the China Network Innovation Environment (CENI) – a research facility linking the largest cities in China – to confirm the effectiveness and safety of the public. network technology in the future before bringing it into commercial use. When completed in 2023, the CENI facility will become a prototype of the “Internet of the Future”, connecting almost everything – from home computers to cars on the street – to serve information without compromise. disruption in a society powered by artificial intelligence (AI). “We will put a lot of effort into it. The Internet of the future needs to withstand all kinds of attacks. It is important to our national security, ”an anonymous computer scientist who was involved in the project at Tsinghua University told SCMP. China’s current Internet is built with Western technology and is full of backdoors. The US government’s Prism project, for example, took advantage of these weaknesses to penetrate the Chinese government and some of its research institutes, including Tsinghua; according to “whistleblower” Edward Snowden. Following Snowden’s revelation, the Beijing government has stepped up efforts to replace Western hardware in its information infrastructures. In recent years, a number of Chinese telecom companies, including Huawei Technologies Co., have outperformed Western firms in 5G network development and many other technologies. But their lead is limited to certain areas, while foreign software and protocols still prevail in the Chinese network. The US government has also launched a multitude of test networks, including the Global Network Innovation Environment (GENI) to maintain their leadership position in networking technology. Other players – such as the EU, Japan and South Korea – have also started similar projects. According to Tan Hang, the lead scientist working on the CENI project, the construction of the Chinese test network began in 2019. China’s base is to counter the US GENI program, with completely different technology. For example, China will develop a brand new operating system to manage data flow and “conversation”. between devices on the future Internet network, with the support of domestically produced hardware – from routers, servers to computer chips…, according to Mr. Tan. This 1.7 billion yuan ($ 260 million) network base will “enhance our country’s competitiveness and allow us to gain an edge in the international cyber competition,” said Mr. Tan. more. China has now embarked on building the world’s largest 5G network, and in the foreseeable future, a large number of smart devices – including self-driving cars – will connect to the Internet. These devices can produce and request huge amounts of data, while allowing only minimal communication delay and each device needs a unique ID. According to Mr. Tan, the current Internet base, based on military technology from the 1980s, is not strong enough to meet future requirements. And the more things connected to the Internet, the greater the damage caused by a network attack. New security protocols developed by Chinese researchers to locate and identify any device in the future network will be tested in the CENI network; according to Mr. Tan. The CENI network “will support attack and defense training” by allowing more than 4,000 teams across the country to conduct separate experiments at the same time; he said. Of course, China’s network will not be isolated, but will connect to existing Internet networks, as well as test networks in other countries, including the Future Internet Research and Test Network (FIRE) of Europe; according to the EU.

Russian aircraft maker Mikoyan recently said it is developing a new generation of intelligent target recognition system for MiG-series fighters, including the MiG-35. The new system will be able to target not only when the object is completely discovered, but even a small amount of exposure. “Work is underway to create an automated landing assistance system, along with an accurate target recognition complex thanks to neural circuit-based artificial intelligence,” said the company representative. . Mikoyan has repeatedly talked about the possibility that the MiG-35 will receive a steering assistance system with artificial intelligence elements. The MiG-35 is Russia’s latest generation 4 ++ multipurpose fighter, it is an upgrade from the MiG-29 with the integration of many applied technologies on the 5th generation fighter. The aircraft has an empty weight of about 24,500 kg, the largest weapon payload is 6.5 tons. The speed of 2,100 km / h, the maximum thrust of the engine reaches 18,000 kgf. Actual ceiling is announced about 16,000 m, a range of 3,000 km. MiG-35 has 9 external suspension points and a 30 mm cannon integrated in the body, armament includes air-to-air missiles at various ranges, air-to-ground missiles, guided aviation bombs, Uncontrolled rockets and free-fall bombs. Currently, the Russian Air Force has officially received six MiG-35S fighters belonging to the first mass production batch. Under the state procurement program of weapons, by 2027, the manufacturer will hand over a total of 24 MiG-35S fighters. The official operation of the MiG-35S by the Russian Aerospace Forces will open up export opportunities for this fighter, because many customers, though showing interest, are not ready to order because reliability concerns have not been verified. After integrating additional artificial intelligence, MiG-35 can make customers more bold in “opening the purse” when its reliability has increased significantly. But in the opposite direction, there are also many comments that Russia’s claim is very suspicious, because this technology is still foreign to them, and Moscow is also significantly behind the US and the West. MiG-35, Su-57 or many other Russian weapons, although advertised very “monumental”, but in fact so far they have not perfected the features as designed, or have not been proved in operation. . In addition, Russia is also known for its “way” to sell weapons with incomplete features to “ask” for a perfect partner, which is reflected in the fact that the MiG-35 has been sold in India for decades now on. Therefore, perhaps the manufacturer must deploy new technologies on the aircraft serving the Russian Air Force and have a good performance on the battlefield, for example in Syria, the export prospects of MiG- 35 is really bright

Baidu’s chairman Robin Li once mentioned countless times that “the future is the era of artificial intelligence.” In this regard, former Baidu chief researcher Wu Enda explained, In the future, some things can be done not by the human brain, but by artificial intelligence to free people from repetitive chores and focus on creating value for the most creative fields.

Freeing humans from trivial labor and focusing only on creative activities and thinking, the artificial intelligence blueprint drawn in this way is infinitely yearning. Now, in addition to doing repetitive labor, artificial intelligence is also stepping into creative activities.

In fact, many media are already using AI to write news articles, and even the shadow of artificial intelligence has appeared in the design field. During Taobao Double 11, one poster on the Taobao website was released every 20 minutes, and about 400 million posters were released during the entire Double 11 period. If these posters are manually designed, and a designer can complete up to 50 posters a day, it will take 340,000 days to produce hundreds of millions of posters, which is about 9,000 years.

This shows that artificial intelligence still has many advantages in product design. It not only has super computing power, can complete complex computing tasks in a short time, but also is not affected by human subjective emotions, and can evaluate design schemes relatively fairly. Therefore, the introduction of artificial intelligence in the design can accumulate and use experience and knowledge, and can quickly and efficiently optimize the design plan, and can continuously explore the best design plan.

At this stage, the level of artificial intelligence in design is obviously not completely on par with humans, but the AI ​​system can monitor and capture information in real time, and quickly generate related design products. Now, in addition to uploading design materials to the AI ​​system by users themselves, the desired design is automatically formed, The AI ​​system can also automatically analyze the user’s visual preferences from the pictures, videos, and texts that the user has browsed, and then quickly complete the design pictures that the user wants.

Such an artificial intelligence system has a high technical content, but it still relies on big data for calculation, not a real “thought design.” Recently, scientists have proposed a “Human-in-the-learning-loop HILL” framework.

This framework consists of a design thinking process (Design sprint) and is integrated into an agile development process. This process can replace qualitative user testing by quantitative measurement of user feedback. This replacement can provide scalable teaching feedback for subsequent learning cycles.

The HILL design cycle process can replace the design perception of quantitative psychometric tools for qualitative user testing. The generated user feedback is used to train the machine learning model and guide along the four design dimensions (novelty, energy, simplicity, instrumentality) In the subsequent design cycle, the four-dimensional user feedback is then mapped to user scenarios and priorities, and the thinking process will directly transform user feedback into an implementation process.

The person in the loop is a quality inspector who will carefully check the collected user feedback to prevent invalid data from entering the machine learning model training. This thinking framework is conducive to allowing artificial intelligence to have real “thinking”. In the future, once it can be developed and utilized, it will bring unexpected surprises to humans in the field of design.

Once a concept only in the imagination, people are getting closer and closer to immortality thanks to the achievements of modern science and technology … According to Chronicles of Sima Qian, in 219 BC, Qin Shihuang, fearing death, assigned the body to seek the secret of immortality. Regrettably, the dream of the first Emperor to unify China did not come true. Later, oil king John Davison Rockefeller – considered the richest American of all time – became the first person to successfully extend life with six heart changes in 38 years. These are two of the many examples of human desire to become immortal. That desire is becoming more and more burning, and based on the reality and the achievements of current science and technology, one day, man’s immortal dream will come true … Technology that prolongs life For scientists, human immortality is also an area of ​​research that receives a lot of attention. Although negating the immortality hypothesis from some religious point of view, atheists maintain Albert Einstein’s theory of relative immortality. In addition, modern scientific achievements are gradually proving the concept of relative immortality of the individual through physical immortality and biological immortality, instead of the subconscious “having death becomes immortal”. Since the beginning of the 21st century, the development of life-prolonging intervention technology has made great progress. Sinclair, a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, thinks we are witnessing new developments in technology and one day all humans can live to be 150 years old .. In medicine, gene therapies have long been used to help people regenerate themselves and fight all diseases. The current achievements of gene implantation, reversing the aging process by enzyme and NAD, effects on chromosomes or stem cells … are still quite limited. While it is possible to maintain a person’s lifespan for up to 15%, or even longer, the distance to immortality is a long way to go. In contrast, studies such as Syncardia and Carmat artificial hearts that have just been approved for commercial use will make the human immortality process more and more realistic. This artificial heart possesses a structure similar to that of a human heart and can automatically adjust the rate of blood flow throughout the body. They can also be replaced in the face of depletion and self-adapting to the changing mechanisms of life. An artificial heart works similarly to a human heart Currently, 81 patients have received artificial heart transplants worldwide. Not only the artificial heart, the famous academic journal Nature recently selected the “Seven Major Aging Intervention Technologies,” including a β-nicotinamide derivative from the Harvard laboratory, which was put into experiment. Sinclair, who discovered how the substance works, revealed that there is an important coenzyme called NAD +, which is equivalent to the body’s energy production plant, but its content is not static and will decrease with age. This is the cause of problems like aging and depression. Scientists have discovered the β-nicotinamide derivative adds enzyme levels to longevity. However, the price barrier of β-nicotinamide is a major hurdle to address. The famous investment bank Bank of America Merrill Lynch forecasts that the global anti-aging industry has a huge potential market of up to $ 600 billion. Realize the immortal dream with technology Biological immortality from life-prolonging technology only helps people have a few decades of life expectancy, which is not the final destination of the human future. Now, the new achievements of artificial intelligence (AI) will open up a promising direction. The move from Elon Musk’s computer-brain research recently went beyond the experimental basis, showing that the line between humans and AI is almost broken. From the idea that was once thought to be crazy, the research achievements of Elon Musk and scientists were able to initially modify human limitations. The first trials have been effective in patients with polio, the next challenge that this project aims to be to break human limits … Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface opens the door to breaking human boundaries After brain-computer interfaces, gene editing, nano-robots or the advent of an artificial heart, the new achievements add new magical weapons to the realm of life-prolonging technology. The company’s most recent achievement Promobot has released a new robot model developed by artificial intelligence covered entirely with artificial leather. This robot can express more than 600 expressions by making eye, eyebrow, lip and body movements similar to a real person. If it is possible to combine with medical nanotechnology or cloning based on cloning techniques, create living individuals with genetically identical multicellular structure using metamaterial metamaterials, at the same time In terms of human intelligence, consciousness, and memory, such as the Avatar Project (or Project of Life) by tycoon Dmitry Itskov, that’s when people can literally become immortal and dream “wisdom. “artificial intelligence” will become a reality. Some futurists say that before our bodies can achieve immortality, we can fully connect our thoughts with the mechanical world, and we will live well in the cloud. Even a Swedish funeral company has been looking for volunteers to allow deceased loved ones to be tested in hopes of creating robotic copies of their loved ones. In the near future, humans will be able to store their consciousness on hardware, meaning the portal to digital immortality has opened up.

Technological achievements such as artificial intelligence or brain-computer interface are gradually revealing the mystery leading to human immortality … “This is not just a game, this is our future”. In the opening chapter of Detroit: Become a Human, Chloe – the first artificial intelligence to pass the Turing test – speaks to the gamer sitting in front of the screen seriously. Detroit’s explanation of the origins of artificial intelligence (AI) differs from reality. But basically artificial intelligence is still understood as a science fiction concept, a robot or a thinking machine. In fact, artificial intelligence is a complex program or algorithm, often focusing on machine learning standards. There is a funny story in the AI ​​science community: “Once something is realized with artificial intelligence, people will no longer call it artificial intelligence.” Indeed, with the advent of Siri and Duplex, linguistic AI applications, people are no longer using Turing Test to test the method of operation and the intelligence level of machine learning. Of course, many people still believe that machines cannot pass the Turing Test because it cannot understand human emotions through language. After all, humans themselves cannot fully understand how the brain works, of course they cannot give exact definitions of a “human-like” machine or set scientific standards. to measure it. And now, when artificial intelligence is bringing people closer to immortal life, humanity’s vision is once again expanding. Artificial intelligence paves the way to immortality In February 2011, the Avatar Project, also known as the Longevity Project, was started with the sponsorship of Russian media tycoon Dmitry Itskov. This is a project that creates immortality by transferring all of human intelligence, consciousness, and memory into computers, helping people get out of their physical form and exist in an Internet network in the form of waves. electronic. “For the next 30 years, I will make sure we can all live forever. I believe 100% of it will happen ”, the Russian billionaire confirmed. According to the roadmap, the Avatar Project will advance to phase 4 in 2045, when humans can give up their flesh and bones to take over the machine body and begin an immortal life with robots capable of change. shape according to thought. The year 2045 is also the time when artificial intelligence brings human immortality as predicted by the American inventor and futurist Raymond Kurzweil. He was the one who accurately predicted when computers would defeat the chess champion in 1997. Meanwhile, futurist Dr. Ian Pearson said that “humans will be immortal by year. 2060 ”. Whether it is 2045 or 2060 as predicted by scientists, all confirmed that at some point, humans can completely connect their thoughts with the machine world, and we will live well in the cloud thanks to Digital immortality. The purpose is similar to the Avatar Project, but billionaire Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface, developed by Neuralink, does not put a lot of time on. This is a neural technology company founded in 2016, headquartered in San Francisco (USA), with specialization in brain-computer interface (BMI) development. Once there were many negative comments about artificial intelligence, even considering it a threat to humanity, Elon Musk finally set Neuralink for the long-term goal of achieving “symbiosis with human intelligence. create “. Currently, this brain-computer interface has gone beyond the laboratory facility and initially recognizing achievements for polio patients. In Neuralink’s latest experiment, the video of a monkey playing a game after being implanted in a brain chip caused shock in public opinion. Not only Avatar and brain-computer interface have brought positive results, there are a series of other projects that have also been promoted to quickly reveal the mysterious curtain of human immortality. In particular, artificial intelligence is still the focus of research and is also the most controversial area. “Life in the cloud” goes hand in hand with real life While researchers are still making proposals to legalize commercial applications of artificial intelligence, especially clones that possess human consciousness based on ethical standards, there are still many ideas. Pessimism about the future of AI. There is even an opinion that artificial intelligence will destroy humanity when out of control. However, “artificial intelligence not only does not destroy people but also gives people immortality” – said Baidu founder Ly Ngan Hoanh at the World Internet Conference in 2019. This is also is the view that has received the support of many scientists, especially the futurists. They believe that artificial intelligence will help people live forever thanks to digital immortality. Digital immortality is a new concept that has emerged in the past few decades and is defined as “the extension of active / passive digital existence after death”. This means that advanced knowledge management, AI, data mining, machine-to-machine communication with the function of presence after death, are now available in a number of projects specializing in creating characters. digital immortality. Typically Avatar, with the illustrated version of the user or the person’s personality in 2D or 3D form, possesses the ability to “think” and act according to the recorded data. These avatars are capable of constantly learning, developing and interacting autonomously if they still exist in the virtual world. This form closely resembles Romanbot, part of a realm of “augmented eternity” in the way that the human mind can be downloaded, recreated, and transformed into other forms. “Eventually the mind will become information that can move, just like files can move from device to device and live in the cloud,” said Michael Graziano, professor of psychology and the sciences. says at Princeton University. According to Alex Zhavoronkov (CEO Insilico Medicine), that is when artificial intelligence saves us from death instead of leading to a bizarre apocalypse. In fact, the AI ​​hub’s origins can be traced back to the 1968 anti-commercialization rebellion according to the data in Truls Unholt’s Vagant, while immortality in the “virtual world” goes hand in hand with the world. It is indeed the destination that people will reach in the near future. Up to the present time, is the time to change our thinking about human union with technology and start thinking as a co-consciousness, instead of perpetuating the “mind” as Ideas by Stephen Hawking and Milton Friedman. As Robert Hertz wrote in 1907, we have two lives – one living in nature, one living in culture. Now, humanity will have one more life, an immortal life thanks to artificial intelligence technology, and in the words of future doctor Micho Kaku, it is just a “matter of time”.

The thing to do in digital transformation is to formulate quantitative indicators to convert to “digital thinking” … Only then, new decisions will be highly effective and there is no room for friendship to dominate. Building a digital nation and developing a digital economy is placed as a focus in Document of the 13th Party Congress to motivate Vietnam to become a high-income developed country. This issue was also heatedly discussed in the first few days of the Congress. This is a very right development path choice in the current political, economic and social situation in the world and in the region. From the development experience of several decades, the world has realized that only high quality human resources associated with high technology can create high performance for development to rise ahead of the future. Only high quality human resources associated with high technology can create high efficiency The question “what will be after industry?” has been in place since the industrialization process created a group of 7 developed industrialized countries. About five or seven years ago, public opinion was noisy about the term 4.0 technology according to the German calling given on the World Economic Forum. After a while, people discussed the content of “generation 4.0” including “artificial intelligence” (AI) and “Internet of things connecting things” (IoT). In recent years, development has turned to digital economy, digital technology, digital nation … Three books and 3 heads of state The first person to talk about technology as the driving force behind human development was Alvin Toffler, an American sociologist. He spent 30 years (1960 – 1990) researching, generalizing, drawing rules and forecasting development with three world-famous books: Future Shock (1970), Third Wave (1980). ) and power ups and downs (1990). The content of all 3 books is just to point out that: Humans started with the era of agriculture; mechanical technology made machines replace manual labor to create the industrial era; Next, information technology has created machines to replace human intellectual labor to create the information age. The information age is the third wave after agriculture, then industry, making human beings have to make fundamental changes like a great shock in the future to develop. For each of these epochs there is a different form of power: Force is the form of power in the agricultural and financial era in the industrial age and intelligence in the information age. These three books have attracted great attention to the heads of many countries, especially Zhao Ziyang (then Prime Minister of China), Lee Kuan Yew (Prime Minister of Singapore) and Kim Dae Jung (President of Korea). ). These three heads of state invited Alvin Toffler for private talks. All three countries have now become newly industrialized countries, are in the top group of the world in terms of digital nation construction and digital economic development from being an outdated agricultural country in the 1960s. I have 8 years of collaborative scientific research in Poland (1980 – 1988), so I have access to 3 books by Alvin Toffler quite early. Since then, after returning home, I have decided to carry out “digital reform” in the field of geographic information production in our country. Completion of digital technology transformation since 2000 In 1989, I introduced satellite positioning (GPS) technology to ground measurement after US President Bill Clinton issued a decision to allow the use of GPS for military purposes only. . At that time, our country was still being embargoed, having difficulty in accessing technology on all sides. Today, GPS is so universal that it’s attached to every smart device to locate every activity. From the success in the reform of geolocation technology, to the year 2000 I completed the conversion of all terrestrial imaging equipment from airplanes, satellites; ground measuring equipment; digital data processing equipment. By 2010, all geographic data of Vietnam have been established in the form of digital information. I have been conferred the title of Labor Hero by the State President in the Doi Moi period for this achievement. A few weeks ago, a friend working at the Department of Geodesy, Maps and Geographic Information told me that his superiors had come down to the Department to work on digital transformation. The director replied that the digital transformation here has been completed since 2000. The work ends soon. Listen to stories, I am also happy From qualitative to quantitative Looking back at the experience of digital development in the world and ourselves, it can be seen that artificial intelligence is playing the role of a machine replacing human intellectual labor, making an important breakthrough for development. Associated with artificial intelligence, all information must be in digital form. Human intelligence is biased towards qualitative thinking, often dominated by love or hate, which loses its honesty and objectivity. All judgments and judgments often lack scientific quantitative basis, many cases lead to wrong decisions. On the other hand, artificial intelligence thinks quantitatively, every decision made is sufficiently valid after analyzing the data. Wrong decisions can only happen when the data is wrong. Currently, the world has launched a huge system of indicators to evaluate every process, every industry, every activity, every country. Every year, the World Bank publishes a document called “World Index” with millions of indexes to evaluate thousands of fields of hundreds of countries. Such indicators are a valid basis for each country to evaluate themselves at what level in each field, and then make appropriate adjustment decisions. This is the essence of “digital thinking”. Human thinking must also change from qualitative to quantitative. That is the digital transformation of thinking. Our country currently lacks the system of indicators necessary to evaluate and decide. Everything is still in a state of qualitative thinking. The thing to do in digital transformation is to form quantitative indicators to convert thinking into “digital thinking” as a habit in development until it becomes “digital culture”. Only then can decisions be highly effective and there is no room for friendship to dominate.

These regulations are part of the EU’s effort to regulate the AI ​​sector and catch up with the US and China in an area that spans from voice recognition to insurance and law enforcement.

This draft provision would prohibit general supervision of citizens, as well as any technology used to manipulate citizens’ behavior, opinions or decisions. The application of AI in the military field is not within the scope of these regulations.

Violations of the aforementioned regulation, depending on the severity, can result in businesses being fined up to 4% of global revenue.

To encourage innovation, Brussels also wants to provide a clear legal framework for billionaires in all 27 member countries of the bloc.

To achieve this, the draft regulation states that companies will require a special validation of deemed “high-risk” applications before being allowed to hit the market.

High-risk systems are those that have “the function of identifying people in public places from a distance through biometric features”, as well as “factors of security in institutions. important public infrastructure ”.

In addition, applications not considered “high risk” will not be subject to any additional regulations other than the applicable ones.

Google and other major tech corporations are very interested in the EU’s AI strategy, as Europe is often the place that sets the standard for how technology is governed around the world.

Last year, Google warned the EU’s definition of AI was too broad and Brussels had to avoid excessive control over a key technology.

The above draft regulations must be ratified by member countries and get the approval of the European Parliament before they can be applied./.