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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In the era of digital economy, the application of AI and cloud computing technology has become the consensus of the development of all walks of life. With the further deepening of the integration of artificial intelligence and industry, the development of AI has temporarily become a phenomenon of the times.

Recently, Baidu Smart Cloud released a series of white papers on the “Integration of Cloud and Intelligence” technology and application analysis, drawing a clear “map” for the future direction of enterprise AI technology development.

For the problem of how to go to the cloud and how to use AI empowerment in the intelligent upgrade of enterprises, the white paper gives the “optimal solution”: under the general trend of integration of cloud and intelligence, build a full-stack model of enterprise AI development.

Three keywords for future enterprise AI development: scenario first, independent innovation, efficiency is the key

An industrial study conducted by Tsinghua University shows that for a new technology to develop for a long time, it needs to be embedded in existing production factors and can continue to create value.

The same is true for companies developing AI technology. Whether a new technology can continue to develop is a prerequisite for self-consistent business. From an enterprise perspective, this is also the purpose of developing AI technology: to empower specific businesses.

Baidu’s “Cloud Intelligence One” white paper also reveals this point.

The white paper mentions: “The definition of requirements based on business scenarios is the basis for successful AI algorithm model development.” Baidu found in the process of serving companies that more than 80% of the requirements need to be customized according to actual application scenarios.

Reflected in the development of AI technology, a good AI development platform needs to consider the technology development environment that matches the application scenario.

We take Baidu’s AI development platform as an example. For actual business scenarios such as quality inspection, inspection, OCR, remote sensing image analysis, text classification processing, and product inspection, Baidu has built a series of algorithms, tools and components to help companies in AI During the development process, AI development oriented to scenarios and business was established.

Such AI development may make the application route from AI technology development to the business end shorter, and the investment in AI technology may also be more intuitive to see the effect.

In fact, because of the diversity and complexity of scenarios, companies have very scattered demand for AI technology development, because companies need to integrate with specific businesses. This is why many companies are trying to build their own AI development capabilities, because only with independent technological development can they have sufficient flexibility and adaptability in business applications.

In order to meet such requirements for flexibility and adaptability, Baidu Feida’s core open source framework has made a lot of optimizations for the deep learning technology needed in the industry. For example, for the development needs of enterprises, Baidu Smart Cloud has launched the Flying Paddle Enterprise Edition, which meets the diverse AI development needs of enterprises through a zero-based EasyDL development platform and a full-featured BML development platform. Judging from the cloud intelligence integration white paper, there are currently two types of developers on Baidu’s AI open platform, one is AI application developers, and the other is AI algorithm developers. AI application developers may be relatively more familiar with the company’s own business, but do not have a deep understanding of AI technology. Therefore, a zero-threshold development platform such as EasyDL is needed to meet development needs. For example, an AI model that can simply extract business data and automatically extract features can be made through EasyDL, and it can be deployed on different hardware platforms to meet the application requirements of the enterprise. For AI algorithm developers, they may pay more attention to the effect of the algorithm than the process from technology development to application. Therefore, on the full-featured BML development platform, they can meet the needs of users through preset models and visual modeling. The demand for development efficiency. In fact, AI technology development platforms such as Baidu Feida should not only meet the flexible needs of enterprises for AI development, but also the efficiency of AI development is also valued by enterprises. Because the development and application of AI technology is not only a technical issue for enterprises, but sometimes it is also a cost issue. This means that the development platform needs to consider the issue of efficiency from the underlying architecture of AI development. Also take Baidu Feipad Enterprise Edition as an example. In the data labeling process of enterprise AI development, the intelligent cleaning and automatic annotation capabilities of Feipad Enterprise Edition can greatly reduce the cost of data annotation. For another example, the continuous iterative optimization capabilities of the Flying Paddle Enterprise Edition based on the data closed-loop realization model can also further improve the efficiency of enterprise AI development. The development of AI technology by enterprises means a certain cost investment. Therefore, it is very important to improve the “cost-effectiveness” of AI development. The key to improving the “cost-effectiveness ratio” is actually choosing a high-quality AI technology development platform. So, what kind of development platform is considered high-quality? A platform that understands the actual technology development needs of the company better than the company. Take Baidu as an example, AI technology has been implemented smoothly in various fields. For example, in the energy field, it has cooperation with State Grid and Southern Power. In the field of communications, Baidu AI has also successfully landed in China Unicom and mobile companies. At present, the commercialization of AI is smooth, indicating that Baidu has a deep understanding of AI. The deeper the understanding of technology, it means that Baidu better understands the pain points of enterprise AI technology development. Therefore, in terms of technology and understanding of commercialization, Baidu may better help companies develop and apply AI technology. Why cloud intelligence integration is the general trend of future AI technology development The development of enterprise AI technology is inseparable from the general trend of AI technology evolution. The current development and evolution of AI technology has three main characteristics. The first is that under the guidance of low-cost and high-efficiency enterprise needs, AI capabilities have evolved from single-point modular development to technology development and application in multiple business scenarios. In the first stage of the development of AI technology, the development of enterprise AI technology is mostly in the application exploration stage. After the business scenario is found, the development of AI technology is further deepened. This is because enterprise-side AI development requires low-cost and high-efficiency solutions, and it also needs to lay the foundation for technology development for the full application of AI technology in the future. This requires that the AI ​​technology development platform not only meets the needs of enterprise modular AI development, but also needs to meet the needs of comprehensive intelligent upgrades in the future. For example, in the process of upgrading AI technology from a single point of application to multiple business scenarios, companies will inevitably encounter management issues such as the development, application, and operation and maintenance of AI capabilities, such as the sharing of AI data between different businesses. Problems such as engaging in data Lonely Island are formed within the enterprise. In this regard, Baidu’s solution is to build a set of AI capability production and centralized management platforms for enterprises, and build an infrastructure for enterprise intelligent upgrades. The advantage of this is that enterprises can form a middle platform of capabilities from AI development to operation and maintenance management. Baidu Smart Cloud is the foundation of this infrastructure. This actually leads to the second feature of the future development of AI technology: Cloud is a platform for large companies to export AI capabilities, and there is a coupling between AI and cloud. For example, a certain industry needs AI vision capabilities and AI knowledge graphs. Through the integration of cloud intelligence, it is possible to meet the needs of enterprises for AI capabilities. This is actually the coupling between AI and cloud. In terms of specific cases, in the cooperation between State Grid and Baidu Smart Cloud, on the basis of the integration of cloud and intelligence, and based on the knowledge graph, Baidu Smart Cloud has built a set of grid fault handling system for State Grid Electric Power, and realized the grid fault handling. The ability of automatic reasoning and judgment and knowledge retrieval has improved the efficiency of power grid fault judgment and disposal by more than 20%. In the development of cloud-intelligence AI, Baidu’s brain integrates a large-scale AI production platform that integrates software and hardware, and the cloud is a platform for Baidu’s AI capability output. With such AI technology capabilities, AI has become the intelligent hub of the enterprise, opening up the internal data of the enterprise , Knowledge and business, and can promote more intelligent business innovation. The reason why it has such an ability to develop and apply AI technology is because Baidu has full-stack AI technology and a complete development ecology as the basic support. In addition to coupling, the third characteristic of current AI technology development is the full-stack technology development. Why is Baidu Smart Cloud able to provide so much support for enterprise AI technology development under the integrated cloud and intelligence system? The core reason is that Baidu has full-stack AI technology and capabilities. The full-stack technical capabilities are reflected in the AI ​​development infrastructure, which brings about a more cost-effective AI technology development program. As an infrastructure, cloud intelligence can meet the future needs of enterprises for high performance, high cost performance, and high utilization of AI second-tier facilities on the enterprise side. The second is to provide full-process optimization and development efficiency tuning, and to provide solutions for enterprise customization needs. For example, Baidu Smart Cloud uses a three-tier infrastructure of AI computing, storage, and containers, and under the AI ​​development architecture that integrates software and hardware. AI and cloud are not simple additions, but fusions at the bottom. Therefore, the performance of the computing layer is higher, and the data The processing speed is faster, the storage layer data processing is faster, and the container layer resource management is more efficient. We take the artificial intelligence platform of State Grid as an example. Based on full-stack AI capabilities, State Grid has built relevant general AI capabilities including image recognition, face recognition, speech and text recognition, and knowledge graphs. On the development side, State Grid has implemented a full-process collaborative development model, enabling model developers, application developers, and business application personnel to have intelligent power service capabilities through the development tools and various interface services provided by the Baidu development ecosystem. From the enterprise perspective, what enterprises need is to customize AI development solutions on demand. Therefore, AI vendors are required to have sufficient technical capabilities to support them, as well as flexibility in deployment. The demand for AI capabilities of an enterprise is not static, but is constantly adjusted as the business changes. For example, a product with 2 million and 200 million users not only means that the demand for AI computing power has increased, but the focus of AI algorithms may be different. Therefore, AI cloud is a more “flexible” solution that can better meet the needs of enterprises. We assume that after 200 million users of this enterprise need to identify users, not only AI data processing is needed, but AI image processing capabilities may also be needed. This means that the AI ​​development platform also needs to have full-stack AI capabilities as the underlying support, so as to meet the needs of different AI capabilities for the future development of enterprises. At present, Baidu has many successful cases in the development of full-stack AI. The experience behind these cases is not only an asset for future enterprise AI development, but also for the development of enterprise full-stack AI capabilities in the future. s help. Written at the end: Giant technology companies are grabbing the big track, such as Baidu, Microsoft and other companies, aiming to build infrastructure in the era of smart economy and become “water, electricity, and coal.” The posture of traditional enterprises is to “lean against the big tree so as to enjoy the cool”, and use other people’s technology to efficiently empower themselves. Therefore, when enterprises are upgrading their intelligence and choosing AI “big trees”, they must not only pay attention to the present, but also consider the future. The white paper reveals the general trend of AI development in the future. In the future, AI technology will further integrate with the industry and bring technological dividends to various fields

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.

On June 15, Singapore publicly saw the rare arrest of Yeu Jun Wei on charges of spying for China (Photo: defensesecurityasia). By page Zaobao (Singapore) on June 15, the investigation results of this country’s Internal Security Bureau showed that Yeo Jun Wei (or Dickson Yeo) also received instructions to collect intelligence during his spying activities. about Singapore. He set up a front company in Singapore to cover up his actions, while recruiting people for “foreign governments”. According to the announcement of the Internal Security Department on the morning of June 15, he also tried to apply to a Singapore government agency to gather more information, but he was ultimately unsuccessful. Yeo Jun Wei was a PhD student at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (Lee Kuan Yew Institute of Public Policy). He collected intelligence for China from 2015 to 2019 and coaxed US military and government officials to write reports for him, then pass them on to China. Yeo Jun Wei was arrested at New York’s Kennedy International Airport in 2019, and admitted to illegally operating as a “foreign agent” in a US court in July 2020. He was then sent back to Singapore at the end of 2020. After entering Singapore, Yeo was arrested on the spot by agents of the Internal Security Department, the authorities then issued an Order of Detention. and officially detained him from January 29, 2021. The case of Yeeo Jun Wei spying for China is causing a stir in Singaporean public opinion (Photo: Dong Phuong). An investigation by the Internal Security Bureau found that Yeo Jun Wei received money as compensation to write political reports for people who claimed to be employees of China’s “think tank”. . These “think tanks” are actually national intelligence agency employees, and Yeo Jun Wei also expressed his understanding of the matter during the subsequent investigation. Reports that Chinese intelligence officers asked Yeo Jun Wei to write include intelligence related to Singapore. The investigation revealed that Yeo tried to get information from some people in Singapore, even set up a local front company to cover up his actions, and also recruited people for foreign governments. (China). To gather more information, Yeo also applied to a Singapore government agency but was ultimately unsuccessful. Singapore’s Internal Security Bureau pointed out that Yeo Jun Wei’s detention was to ensure that the investigation could proceed smoothly. “The Singapore government strictly handles all improper relationships with foreign governments, obeying foreign powers and engaging in activities harmful to the security and interests of the country, including bilateral system”. Hong Kong news site the East On June 15, more information, Yeo Jun Wei was accused of spying for China when he tried to extract political and defense secrets from US officials. extradited to Singapore and was immediately detained by the country’s security services. Singapore’s Internal Security Department said on June 15 that Yeo Jun Wei was paid to write political reports for foreign intelligence agencies. Yeo Jun Wei and Professor Huang Jing – a pair of teachers and students at the Lee Kuan Yew Academy of Public Administration were both arrested on charges of spying for China (Photo: trends365). The results of an investigation by the Singapore Department of Internal Security showed that Yeo Jun Wei was instructed to collect Singapore’s intelligence while participating in espionage activities for China. He set up a company in Singapore to cover up his actions, while also recruiting people for the Chinese government. Yeo wrote a political report for a person who claimed to be a member of a Chinese think tank, connected to Chinese intelligence; The person involved was actually a Chinese intelligence agent, and Yeo admitted during the investigation that he knew. Singapore’s Department of Internal Security stressed that the Singapore government strictly dealt with anyone who established improper relations with foreign governments, obeyed orders from foreign powers and engaged in illegal activities. actions harmful to the security and interests of Singapore, including the bilateral relationship. Yeo Jun Wei (Chinese name is Yao Junwei), 39, a PhD student at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore, has been accused of luring US government and military officials to write reports. reported to me from 2015 to 2019 and then transferred to China. In November 2019, he was arrested upon arrival at Kennedy International Airport in New York. Singapore media reported that after Yeo was arrested in the US, the university suspended his doctoral candidate status. Huang Jing, who was a former professor at the Lee Kuan Yew Institute of Public Policy, was one of Yeo Jun Wei’s mentors. Huang Jing (Hoang Tinh) is accused of espionage in Singapore. In 2017, he was permanently revoked by the Singapore Ministry of Home Affairs and was deported from Singapore. In July 2020, Yeo pleaded guilty to illegally serving a foreign country as an agent. By October 2020, Yeo Jun Wei was sentenced to 14 months in prison and deported to Singapore on December 30, 2020. Yeo Jun Wei admitted to US investigators that between 2015 and 2019, he used a consulting firm as a cover to gather intelligence from the US government and military personnel for China. Yeo’s consulting firm was founded in 2018 to find undisclosed US military or government personnel, which includes civilian employees involved in the F-stealth fighter jet program. 35B of the US Air Force and pay them to write the report. Yeo assumed this was information his Asian clients wanted, but in fact it was handed over to the Chinese government. Yeo also revealed to US investigators that his intelligence work initially focused on other Asian countries, but later focused on the US. Profile of Yeo Jun Wei on the school website (Photo: sammyboy). According to US prosecutors, Yeo Jun Wei was recruited by Chinese intelligence agents in 2015 during a visit to Beijing. A few years later, he received instructions from China to open a fake company with the same name as a famous American consulting company, and then through his online connections, he searched for Americans who did jobs that were beneficial to his income. collect his intelligence. Yeo also created fake positions and positions to collect the resumes of hundreds of candidates, mostly government and military personnel, and then hand them over to a Chinese businessman. One of them, who served in the air force stationed in Japan, provided Yeo with information about Japan’s purchase of American fighter aircraft. Yeo then reported this to the Chinese intelligence agency. A disgruntled State Department employee also wrote a report about the agency to Yeo. Observers said that the case of Yeo Jun Wei as a spy for China is a rare case that the Singapore authorities made public. Similar cases have been reported in the past, but rarely made public.

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.

Ekaterinburg submarine of the Russian Navy. Photo: TASS Business Insider (USA) reported that the Delta-IV class submarine Ekaterinburg has spent nearly 2 years waiting at the port in Severodvinsk. Ekaterinburg’s decommissioning also marks the “final chapter” of the Delta class that has been the mainstay of the Soviet and Russian fleets of nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines for decades. It is expected that Delta-class submarines will be replaced by advanced Borei-class ships. Delta IV class submarines are part of a group of 43 ballistic missile nuclear submarines with the first being launched in the early 70s of the last century. There are seven Delta IV submarines in service with the Russian Navy. Among them is the Podmoskovye which in 2016 was converted into a Special Mission submarine dedicated to intelligence missions. It is known that Ekaterinburg is the second ship of the Delta-IV class to be produced, built in 1985. On August 6, 1989, during Operation Behemoth, the Ekaterinburg submarine tested 16 R-29RM Shtil ballistic missiles. while in diving mode. The first launch was successful, but a fuel leak in the rocket during the second launch halted the test. The Ekaterinburg was fortunately unharmed. Not stopping there, in 2011, a serious fire occurred on the Ekaterinburg ship. The ship then had to undergo a three-year repair process.

Distinguishing between Trump and Biden In an article published in March 2020, CNN posted an image of former President Trump crossing out the word “Corona” and changing it to “Chinese” before the word virus in a note at a meeting with the task force against COVID-19. The American newspaper at the time asserted that this was an attempt by the President and some in the administration to distract the public from his failure to control the spread of the COVID-19 disease in the US. At the same time, many other American newspapers quoted a series of statements from the White House public health advisers asserting that it is inappropriate and inaccurate to associate SARS-CoV-2 with the name Wuhan virus. “Ethnicity is not the cause of the virus that causes COVID-19” , Forbes quoted Alex Azar – US Secretary of Health and Human Services at that time said. A photo shows the word “Corona” removed and replaced with “China” in Trump’s COVID-19 announcement. Sheet Vox Trump’s association with COVID-19 by geographical location is dangerous because it arouses xenophobia. CBS News stressed that the US leader’s statements related to the “Chinese virus” only fueled a wave of discrimination against Asian Americans. According to statistics from the database website Factbase, Trump used the phrase “Chinese virus” more than 20 times between March 16 and March 30. Before a series of criticisms from the media and public opinion, he did not mention this phrase but never “reduced” when he asserted that there was evidence that nCoV escaped from the Wuhan laboratory many months later. Unlike his predecessor, not long after taking office, President Biden signed an executive order banning COVID-19 contacts by geographical location. A few weeks ago, the hypothesis that COVID-19 leaked from the Wuhan laboratory became hot again when the Wall Street Journal It was reported that 3 researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology were hospitalized for treatment in early November 2019. The American newspaper confirmed that these people had “symptoms similar to COVID-19 disease”. A few days after the information Wall Street Journal Posted, President Biden directed the US intelligence community to intensify efforts to investigate the origin of COVID-19 and report to him within 90 days. This move of the American leader was welcomed by the US media. A series of American newspapers began to seriously analyze the possibility of the virus escaping the laboratory, citing experts who emphasized the need for a scientific investigation into this matter. CBS News Quoting former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, it was a mistake to prematurely dismiss the theory that COVID-19 leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan. While New York Times said many scientists welcomed President Biden’s call for a more extensive investigation of the Wuhan lab. Many other newspapers are racing to publish information about the report of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, USA on the origin of COVID-19 which emphasizes the hypothesis that the SARS-CoV-2 virus leaked from a laboratory. China’s experiment in Wuhan is correct and needs further investigation. The same problem, but at two times, the way the American media reported under two presidents seemed different. Although compared to 1 year ago, the hypothesis that COVID-19 escaped from the Wuhan laboratory is only one more episode like Wall Street Journa l posted. Intelligence agencies around the world, including in the US, have yet to make any official conclusions about the origin of nCoV. Trump supporters criticize American media. Many opinions say that anti-Trump sentiment makes many newspapers lose their objective view when they only focus on going against what the US leader claims. The US has never given up investigating the origin of COVID-19 Even under Trump or Biden, the US has never given up on the investigation into the origin of COVID-19. Washington criticized China for denying international investigators access to the Wuhan lab and for failing to explain some of the inconsistencies in the hypothesis that the virus jumped from animals to humans. The Wuhan Institute of Virology became the focus of the investigation into the origin of COVID-19. (Image: Shutterstock) According to the sheet DW of Germany, the United States is taking every opportunity to remind the world that China is responsible for the entire current world mayhem. Whether it’s Trump or Biden, they want the American people to believe that the disease that has claimed more than 600,000 American lives originated in China and they have done everything to find the truth that Beijing hides. Blaming China also alleviated people’s dissatisfaction with the government’s shortcomings in putting in place anti-epidemic measures. It is undeniable that China has fought COVID-19 well and soon brought the epidemic under control. Beijing is also busy promoting its success story and drowning out international criticism for its “leaving” nCoV to the world. But China’s lack of transparency has also fueled speculation that Beijing is hiding something. This provides fertile ground for conspiracy theories. “Unfortunately, we are experiencing a situation in which the question of the origin of COVID-19 and different strategies in fighting the pandemic becomes the subject of a propaganda war between the US government and the US government. and China” , said German scientist Felix Wemheuer. Experts say that while trying to refer to China as an irresponsible country that spreads the disease but consistently denies it, the US has built itself as a leader in finding the truth, ready to stand up for justice. The US claims to blame China for COVID-19 are also against Beijing’s propaganda efforts that the virus did not originate in the country. After successfully controlling the epidemic, China began to shift public opinion from criticism aimed at the country to Beijing’s contributions in the pandemic. Beijing once hypothesized that the virus may not have originated in China after a study published in 2020 showed that antibodies against COVID-19 or a variant were detected in Italy in 2019. China also called called WHO to investigate the hypothesis that the virus leaked from laboratories around the world, referring to the possibility that the pathogen may have been brought by US military personnel to Wuhan, China in October 2019. If it is proven that COVID-19 came from a laboratory in Wuhan, the US will destroy the image that China has built and pressure Beijing to shoulder the burden of vaccination for the world. The US accusations against China may also give other countries a stronger voice in demanding an investigation into the origins of COVID-19 under the umbrella of US protection. In fact, British intelligence recently suddenly changed its opinion, from thinking that the virus theory leaked from the laboratory “unlikely” to saying this hypothesis is “absolutely possible”. For the US, an investigation into the origin of the epidemic could become a lever to increase pressure on China and be part of a competition for influence between China and the West. If it can obtain evidence of Beijing’s cover-up of the pandemic, Washington can use that as leverage in negotiations. Is the investigation being politicized? Under pressure from the US, China and WHO officials repeatedly called on Washington to stop politicizing and “poisoning” the investigation into the origin of COVID-19. Experts fear the US-China blame game for the origin of the epidemic threatens scientific investigations. (Photo: SCMP) “US efforts to politicize research on the origins of COVID-19 seriously undermine international cooperation and create difficulties and obstacles for efforts to combat the virus and save lives.” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman stressed. According to the DW The fact that the US is using COVID-19 as a “scapegoat” as well as the way China is not really transparent about providing information at the beginning of the outbreak are turning science into a political victim of the pandemic. . The world’s two largest economies are stuck in a blame game, fueled by theories about the origins of COVID-19. Experts fear this could distort the investigation into the origin of the epidemic, which is expected to be based on science. “Analysts are under political pressure to stick to the theory that the virus leaked from the lab,” he said. analyst Jeffery Wright said. Dr Mike Ryan, head of WHO’s health emergencies programme, once affirmed that “science needs to be central and science will find the answer”. Unfortunately, the WHO’s statements seem to be losing some weight due to earlier accusations by the Trump administration that the WHO is a “puppet of China” and that the organization is China-centric. Doubts with the WHO also increased when the organization’s investigation into the origin of COVID-19 in March did not come to a clear conclusion. The investigative report mentions the theory that the virus leaked from the laboratory but claims this scenario is “extremely unlikely”.

“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.

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.

Researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Photo: Daily Mail According to the Daily Mail (UK), this incredible mistake was revealed in a screenshot sent to a Chinese medical journal. The photo shows information about a 61-year-old woman, known as “patient Su”, who lives about a mile from one of Wuhan’s main virus research facilities. The woman was also near a train station along the high-speed rail line that played a key role in spreading the virus around the city of 11 million people. This latest finding was revealed through an interview by a medical journal with the scientist tasked with compiling China’s official data on cases. In an interview with Health Times, Yu Chuanhua, Professor of Biostatistics at Wuhan University, said there were 47,000 confirmed and suspected cases on the national database of COVID-19 by the end of the year. February 2020. Among these, there was a death of a patient at the end of September 2019. “There is data on a patient who became ill on September 29. The data shows that the patient has not been given a nucleic test and a clinical diagnosis. It is possible that this is a suspected case of COVID-19. The patient died. This data has not been confirmed,” added Mr. Yu. The data also shows that two other suspected COVID-19 cases were reported to doctors in Wuhan on November 14 and November 21, 2019, along with several other cases prior to December 8, the period. China informed the World Health Organization (WHO) of the first cases. Inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Hubei Province, China. Photo: AP The Health Times article includes screenshots of information of two suspected COVID-19 cases in November 2019 on the database of Professor Yu. Although the patient’s personal details have been obscured, some information can still be seen, including the hospital name and home address. Information shows that patient Su has been treated at Rongjun hospital in Wuhan. Both the home address and the hospital where this patient is being treated are in Hongshan District, Wuhan City, where many studies on SARS-CoV-2 virus related to bats have been conducted in laboratories. experience. The area where patient Su lives and is treated is more than 20 kilometers from the Huanan seafood market, which Beijing initially believed to be the source of the COVID-19 infection. The second patient discovered in November 2019 is a 62-year-old man named Wang, who is being treated at Hanyang Hospital. However, Professor Yu has requested that the information published in the newspaper be retracted, claiming that the dates were entered incorrectly and that all other suspected cases before December 8, 2019 need further verification. . Wuhan Institute of Virology, Hubei Province, China. Photo: EPA This detail was discovered by Gilles Demaneuf, a member of the Drastic digital operations team, who discovered many facts that are said to contradict the theory that COVID-19 is an infectious disease from animals. Chinese objects. “We were able to accurately determine the name, age, and address of the suspected COVID-19 case very early, almost a month before the first case was officially announced. This address is right next to metro line 2 and not far from the hospital that treated some of the other first cases,” Demaneuf said. The railway system, which carries 1 million people a day, is linked to a seafood market, the Wuhan Institute of Virology and an international airport, he said. Demaneuf argues that these new findings show that more clues can be accessed if there are continued and determined efforts to evaluate the hypothesis that the virus leaked from the laboratory. The Wall Street Journal last week also cited a US intelligence report that said three researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology were hospitalized for medical care in November 2019, a few months before China announced it. announced the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in this country. However, China has denied the above information. Beijing insists the WHO-led investigation team concluded after a visit to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in February that the possibility of a virus leak from the laboratory was “extremely unlikely”.

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.

Security guards stand guard outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology (China)Source: South China Morning Post Recently, Mr. Chris Said, a data scientist, a member of the House of Representatives of Malta, posted on Twitter a list of viruses that have accidentally escaped from laboratories so far. According to him, SARS-CoV-1, the virus that caused the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 29 countries around the world in 2003, had leaked from several Asian laboratories. The first time SARS-1 “escaped” was in August 2003 at the National University of Singapore. The second time happened in December 2003 in Taiwan (China). The results of the investigation showed that a SARS scientist in Taiwan handled the leaked biological waste without wearing gloves, masks or gowns. In April 2004, SARS-1 escaped from the National Institute of Virology of China. The H1N1 bird flu virus first appeared in the world in 1918, causing a global pandemic. In 1977, the virus “re-emerged” and many believe it was the result of a leak from a laboratory. That lab is said to be working on a way to produce a live attenuated vaccine in response to the threat of a global flu pandemic. Martin Furmanski, a researcher at the Scientific Working Group on Biological and Chemical Weapons (USA), wrote in a 2014 report that authorities do not want to disclose the laboratory origin of H1N1 because worried about affecting virus research cooperation between countries. “Virilologists and public health officials quickly realized that the most likely source (of H1N1) was a lab leak, but they agreed not to make this public,” Furmanski wrote. Foot-and-mouth disease emerged in the UK in 2007, about 4km from a biosafety level 4 laboratory in the Pirbright area. The results of the investigation showed that the construction vehicles were carrying sludge contaminated with the virus from a faulty sewage line in Pirbright, Italian newspaper The Print reported on May 31. Smallpox virus leaked from two prestigious smallpox laboratories in the UK. The first occurred in 1972 at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The second case was recorded in 1978 at the Birmingham Medical School. Continuing to investigate the origin of COVID-19 In recent days, world opinion has heated up again about the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the global pandemic COVID-19. On May 13, a group of 18 scientists published in the journal Science (Science) of the United States, calling for a more thorough investigation of the origin of SARS-CoV-2. They believe that the hypotheses about the accidental release of the virus from the laboratory and natural transmission are both possible in reality. Earlier, in March, a team of experts sent by the World Health Organization (WHO) to China concluded that the hypothesis of a laboratory leak was “extremely unlikely” in reality. However, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the team’s assessment of whether SARS-CoV-2 could emerge in the community after a laboratory incident was “not broad enough” and request further investigation. Even America’s top medical expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who once denied the lab leak theory, now says he doesn’t believe the virus evolved naturally. US President Joe Biden has ordered the US intelligence community to investigate the origins of COVID-19, after new surveillance results showed there was a possibility of a pandemic after SARS-CoV-2 leaked from the laboratory. experience in China, American newspaper The Wall Street Journal reported on May 27. The White House came under pressure to investigate on its own after China told the WHO that its part of the investigation had been completed, and efforts to trace the source of the virus should turn to other countries. President Biden wants the US intelligence community to produce a report on the origin of COVID-19 within 90 days. He said that US intelligence focuses on two scenarios, SARS-CoV-2 comes from human contact with an infected animal or from a laboratory incident. Earlier, a US intelligence report wrote that three researchers at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology became so sick in November 2019 that they had to be hospitalized. In December 2019, China reported its first cases of COVID-19. “This questions the credibility of the claim by veteran researcher Shi Zhengli of the Wuhan Institute of Virology that there is no transmission of SARS-CoV-2 or SARS-related viruses among staff and students. of the Wuhan Institute of Virology”, American newspaper USA Today May 24, citing documents from the US State Department. However, the intelligence report on 3 Chinese researchers seriously ill The Wall Street Journal The mention is not conclusive evidence that SARS-CoV-2 leaked from the lab, and the intelligence community still doesn’t know for sure what illness they have, CNN reported.

Researchers wear protective gear at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Photo: Xinhua US President Joe Biden announced last week that the US intelligence community had questioned two possible origins of the COVID-19 pandemic: “Human contact with infected animals or a laboratory incident. “. He ordered a new investigation “to bring us closer to a final conclusion”. According to Bloomberg, no matter where the investigation leads, the history of laboratory safety shows that leakage of pathogens has happened, sometimes with deadly consequences. Smallpox virus leak By the late 1970s, smallpox had been eradicated from the wild, but research on the disease continues in several laboratories around the world, including one in Birmingham (UK). where a virulent strain of smallpox virus is handled. In the summer of 1978, a medical photographer working there named Janet Parker became ill. When pustules spread on her body, the local doctor diagnosed it as a severe case of smallpox. Victim Janet Parker in the smallpox virus leak from the laboratory. It was the third leak of the smallpox virus in that decade from a UK laboratory. The British government has drastically stopped the outbreak by urgently isolating hundreds of people and vaccinating many others. Thanks to those efforts, only one other person became infected, and that was Parker’s mother. However, the female photographer experienced a painful, lonely death in quarantine, and is believed to be the last known fatal victim of smallpox. But there are other victims of the incident. At that time the press mentioned the director of the laboratory in Birmingham, a smallpox virus expert named Henry Bedson. Although there was no evidence, the media still blamed him for the incident. Quarantined at home and in despair, Bedson slit his own throat and died shortly thereafter. The British government has organized a thorough investigation into the outbreak. An investigation found Mr Bedson may not have followed adequate safety procedures and speculated that Parker contracted smallpox from a virus that leaked into the gas pipeline. Technicians at a laboratory in Rockville, Maryland (USA), where smallpox vaccine is produced. A lawsuit later dismissed this explanation, and raised the disturbing possibility that Parker herself had entered one of the workspaces without proper protection. To this day, the debate over the Parker incident remains unresolved. Anthrax spores from the lab When laboratories let pathogens leak in a secret environment, it is much harder to confirm the source of the outbreak. A case in point is the anthrax outbreak in Sverdlovsk, a rather isolated city in the former Soviet Union. In 1979, rumors of anthrax killing dozens, even thousands, began to spread to the West. Later that year, Soviet newspapers confirmed some reports, noting that more than 100 people had contracted anthrax after eating contaminated meat, and over 60 had died. It was a tragedy, but perhaps unavoidable because anthrax is readily apparent in local animal populations. However, US intelligence officials are not convinced by that. Satellite images show disinfecting truck-like objects around the city, with a significant focus of activity on a mysterious military facility known as Complex 19. CIA analysts have reported hypothesized that the Soviet Union leaked a weaponized form of anthrax. The Soviets reacted indignantly to this allegation. In 1980, Russia’s official news agency Itar Tass published a rebuttal titled “A Seed of Deception,” accusing the US of making false statements to gain geopolitical advantage. Sverdlovsk was once one of the military secret cities of the Soviet era. Then, under the administration of President Ronald Reagan, the CIA sought to better handle what happened. They asked Matthew Meselson, a distinguished geneticist at Harvard who worked on the bioweapons ban program, to directly assess the evidence. Mr. Meselson was not convinced by the US intelligence findings. In the 1980s, he rejected another theory that the Soviet Union used some kind of fungal weapon in Laos – and he initially held the same view on the anthrax case, endorsing the main explanation. information from the Soviet Union, with one important caveat: Without a thorough investigation in Sverdlovsk, it would be impossible to know for certain what happened. Essentially, Mr. Meselson supported the explanation that the meat was tainted, judging it to be “completely reasonable and consistent” based on what was known about anthrax. He also arranged meetings with Soviet scientists to add credence to this interpretation, with slides of pathology samples taken from the victims. The US intelligence community, however, remains skeptical. And in this case, the intelligence agencies, not the scientists, turned out to be right. After the breakup of the Soviet Union, Meselson and other researchers finally had access to pathological samples taken from the victims’ lungs, which showed they had died from inhaling anthrax spores. Subsequent revelations added to the picture of what happened. Turns out Complex 19 is a biological weapons facility. Here they produce anthrax spores. According to the Laboratory Director of Complex 19 at the time, a filter connected to the spore dryer was clogged. This still happens often. The military officer in charge left a message for his replacement on the next shift but did not enter the logbook as is customary. When it came to the next shift, the replacement team looked at the notebook, saw nothing, and restarted the purifier. A series of anthrax spores quickly spread throughout the vicinity. Mr. Meselson eventually pieced together all the data and published a paper in the journal Science, which combined wind data with interviews, pathological samples and other evidence to describe the outbreak. Coal killed more than 60 people. That was in 1994, 15 years after the incident. Mysterious flu virus leak In addition, there is another incident that took place in the Soviet Union that is still a mystery. In the same decade that witnessed the leaks of smallpox in Britain and anthrax in the Soviet Union, there was also an unusual strain of flu at the time, called H1N1. Laboratory virus leaks have had deadly consequences. Photo: Atlantis In 1977, an H1N1 outbreak broke out on the border between China and the Soviet Union. The epidemic eventually spread worldwide that year, causing an unusual proportion of young patients. The mortality rate from epidemics is relatively low compared to some strains of influenza. But that’s not the problem. The worrying aspect of the epidemic is that this particular strain of H1N1 has not been present since 1950, when it was superseded by other strains of influenza. The appearance of that kind of “back in time” was confusing. Some researchers speculate that the virus may have “escaped” from a laboratory in the Soviet Union or China, but both countries deny this theory. However, the matter remains a puzzle for virologists. Many theories have been born and come to explain the so-called “frozen evolution”, among which the most prominent is the hypothesis that the virus spread to humans from a laboratory, possibly testing a vaccine to neutralize the disease. swine flu. A scientist involved in the development of a vaccine. Photo: Reuters The exact origin of COVID-19 may not be known All of the above incidents occurred in the 1970s. Laboratory safety was expected to have improved since then, but that has not always been the case. After the SARS outbreak in 2003, laboratories around the world began studying the virus. Since that time, there have been no less than 6 laboratory leaks of SARS. The first occurred at the National University of Singapore, where a student contracted the virus from a sample of the virus. This was followed by an incident in Taiwan/China, where a researcher contracted the virus, possibly during the disinfection of waste products from the laboratory. After that, several leaks happened at the National Institute of Virology of China. In one incident, a researcher infected her mother with the virus, and she died of SARS. In all cases, human negligence, mainly exacerbated by inadequate safety protocols, was the cause of the pathogen leakage. History has supported the theories being put forward that the current COVID-19 pandemic may not have a natural origin, but we are not in a position to rush into judgment. When it comes to lab leaks, the investigation and review process often takes a long time, and sometimes the answers remain unsatisfactory and incomplete. In the case of the COVID pandemic, we must prepare for the possibility that the world may never know the exact origins of a pandemic that has claimed millions of lives.

Front of Wuhan Institute of Virology Photo: Reuters This information adds weight to calls for a more complete investigation into the possibility that the COVID-19 pandemic virus escaped from this laboratory. The above content is mentioned in a report from the Donald Trump administration, which said that some researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), a center dedicated to research on corona viruses and other pathogens, had fell ill in the fall of 2019 “with symptoms resembling COVID-19 and common seasonal flu.” U.S. officials and former officials with intelligence on researchers in Wuhan expressed differing views on the strength of the evidence outlined in the report. One said that information was provided by an international partner and could be important, but needed further investigation. Others claim that the information is very reliable. “The information that we have comes from a variety of sources and is of very good quality. It is very accurate. What the report doesn’t talk about is the exact reason why they got the disease,” the source told Journal City Wall . Many epidemiologists and virologists believe that November 2019 was the time when SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the COVID-19 pandemic, began to spread in Wuhan. Beijing says that the first confirmed case in the city fell ill on December 8. China has repeatedly denied that the virus escaped from laboratories. On May 23, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs cited a report published by an investigation team led by the World Health Organization (WHO) after a visit to the Wuhan Institute of Viruses (WIV), saying that the virus leaked from the laboratory. experience is extremely unlikely. “The US continues to hype the theory of lab leaks. Are they really interested in traceability or are they trying to distract? China’s Foreign Ministry said. However, WIV does not share with the WHO team raw data, diaries and lab records where a lot of coronaviruses from bats are studied, the animals that many scientists consider most likely to be the animals. origin of the virus. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the team had not yet fully tested the lab leak hypothesis, so further investigation was still needed. There is an opinion that the article of Journal City Wall appearing before the upcoming WHO meeting was to heat the matter up again. But the Biden administration declined to comment on the intelligence report, saying only that all credible theories about the origins of the pandemic should be investigated by WHO and international experts. Abnormal point Shi Zhengli, the leading expert on bat coronaviruses at the WIV, said that the virus did not come out of the place where she was working. She told the WHO investigation team that all staff here were negative for COVID-19 antibodies and there were no staff changes in the corona virus research team. In February, Dutch virologist Marion Koopmans, a member of the investigation team who traveled to Wuhan, told NBC News that some WIV staff members fell ill in the fall of 2019, but she attributed it to common seasonal illnesses. “It’s normal to get sick from time to time. Nothing outstanding. Maybe 1 or 2 people. It’s not a big deal,” Koopmans said. Beijing even suggested that the virus could have originated outside of China, including a laboratory at the Fort Detrick military facility in the US state of Maryland, and then called on WHO to investigate the first COVID-19 outbreaks. in other countries. But most scientists see no evidence to support the idea the virus originated in a US military lab, and the White House says there is no credible reason to investigate the facility. . It is normal for Chinese people to go to the hospital for medical examination and treatment when they are sick, because family doctor services are not yet common. COVID-19 and seasonal flu, although two different illnesses, share many of the same symptoms, such as fever, cough, and aches and pains. However, it is worth noting that members of the same corona virus research team were sick and had to be hospitalized with similar symptoms, before the disease was detected. David Asher, a former US official who led the State Department task force to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic under Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, told a Hudson Institute panel in March that he suspects suspected that the WIV researchers were sick at the same time from the common seasonal flu. “I highly doubt that three people with good protective clothing working in a third-degree lab caught the flu and were hospitalized with severe symptoms in the same week that had nothing to do with the coronavirus,” he said. Asher said, these three people could be the “first known COVID-19 outbreak”.

The COVID-19 pandemic first broke out in Wuhan city, Hubei province, China. Photo: Getty Images The United States and several countries are closer than ever to defeating COVID-19 thanks to progress in vaccination against the SARS-CoV-2 virus. But the world still does not know how this deadly virus appeared, and there is a growing opinion from the scientific community that it does not happen naturally. The US is stepping up calls for more research and warning about the risks of future pandemics. Washington is also more open to weighing the theory that a mistake or failure in a Chinese laboratory caused the COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, the Chinese Government completely rejected this hypothesis and said that the dossier to trace the origin of the COVID-19 epidemic was closed. What’s new? According to CNN, a recent US intelligence report found that several researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology fell ill in November 2019 and were hospitalized – a new detail on the severity of the symptoms. disease in these scientists. It is not clear whether the researchers at that time had COVID-19 but the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) vehemently rejected the report, considering it a lie to promote the hypothesis that the virus leaked from the laboratory. . Scientists who worked for the WIV previously said the institute had nothing to do with COVID-19 disease until December 30, 2021. On May 24, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs also denied the information that three Wuhan researchers were hospitalized before the outbreak of COVID-19 and affirmed that this information was “completely untrue”. Spokesperson Zhao Lijian confirmed that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was not exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus before December 30, 2019, and its staff so far have not been infected. Scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Photo: AFP Meanwhile, on May 25, speaking at the US Congress, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said that the failure to fund previous research on Corona virus in bats in China. Quoc is a “negligence of duty”. According to Fauci, the US should have pursued to the place where the contact between animals and humans could lead to the spread of the virus between species. Dr. Fauci himself, the leading infectious disease expert in the US, said this week he did not believe the COVID-19 outbreak occurred spontaneously and prompted further investigation. A World Health Organization (WHO) adviser, Jamie Metzl, also said the leak hypothesis is possible, while scientists are “groping, creating and studying” the virus with the aim of vaccine development. “So I believe what could have happened was a leak, followed by a cover-up,” said Metzl, who served at the US State Department and the Atlantic Council during the US presidency. President Bill Clinton said. The conclusion is that further investigation is needed An in-depth study conducted by WHO in collaboration with the Government of China, published in March, explored the different possible origins of the COVID-19 epidemic and came to the conclusion that: although still It is not yet known how the disease originated, but it is likely that it spread to humans, either directly from bats, or more likely from an intermediate species that caught the virus from bats and then spread to humans. for human. Bats can be an intermediary that spreads the SARS-CoV-2 virus to humans. Photo: NPR The WHO report called the laboratory leak theory “extremely unlikely”, citing the fact that no laboratory staff in Wuhan were infected before December 2020 as an argument against this hypothesis. After the WHO report was published, its officials still called for an additional and public investigation from the Chinese side. Meanwhile, a newly released US intelligence report shows that laboratory workers of the Wuhan Institute of Virology have been sick since before December. According to WHO adviser Jamie Metzl, in the early stages of the outbreak of the disease. when China did not warn the world appropriately, Chinese officials blamed the transmission on an initial hotspot, a seafood market in Wuhan, which at this point was essentially Is not right. This expert said that there is a lot of evidence that the Chinese government initially tried to cover up the existence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. “Whatever the origin of the pandemic, the first month, when China was spending all its energy trying to cover things up rather than fixing the problem, allowed the fire in the furnace to cause a fire in the kitchen.” into a house fire and a worldwide fire,” said Metzl. The Wuhan Institute of Virology became the center of doubts about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Photo: Getty Images A group of well-known and experienced scientists also criticized the WHO report for not taking seriously the hypothesis that the virus leaked from the laboratory. According to them, this hypothesis was refuted within just a few pages of a hundred-page report published by WHO. The scientists wrote in the journal Science: “We must seriously consider the contagion hypotheses in the wild and in the laboratory until we have enough data.” Fear of a recurrence of a pandemic These “closed doors” have also helped conspiracy theories expand. Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton has promoted the idea that the SARS-CoV-2 virus was purposefully created as a biological weapon. But there’s no concrete evidence to back up that claim, and experts still say it’s unlikely. Dr. Paul Offit, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, told CNN it’s unlikely the Wuhan lab manipulated the virus to make it more contagious. but “we have to find out” the truth. Dr. Offit said that the world needs to do something to prevent another pandemic. “What I know is that they [Trung Quốc] must allow this [điều tra mở về nguồn gốc dịch]“This is now the third pandemic to emerge in the past 20 years,” said Mr. Offit. First there was SARS 1, then there was MERS. I think we can assume we’re not done with this yet.”

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 Russian Ministry of Defense is equipped with the most powerful pistol in the world. (Photo: RIA) Earlier, the Central Research Institute of Precision Mechanics of Russia (TsNIITOCHMASH part of the state-owned high-tech corporation Rostec) developed the most powerful ammunition model in the world for a 9 mm self-loading pistol. This ammunition for the Udav series of semi-automatic pistols has the ability to penetrate level 2 bulletproof armor and at a greater range than similar ammunition in the world. In addition to superior armor penetration, thanks to the special warhead design, the Udav bullet also has no explosion and no flash of the muzzle. According to Izvestia, the plan to purchase Udav pistols by the Russian Ministry of Defense includes two main versions: a mass-use version for the army with code number 6P72 and a specialized version with code number 6P72-1. The second version of the gun has a silencer and a laser targeting device. Lasers can work even in daylight, they emit infrared rays that are not visible to the naked eye. However, it is possible to see clearly if using the special force’s night sight. For both versions to order, delivery will begin this year and be completed by November 10, 2023. The estimated cost to buy this gun is $5,214 million. The main feature of the Udav is the use of some new ammunition with more powerful firepower, caliber 9×21 mm and with a range of up to 50-100 m. Like other military weapons, the 6P72 is designed and tested in temperatures ranging from minus 50 degrees Celsius to positive 50 degrees Celsius. Even a dusty atmosphere will not affect this gun. . According to General Director of the Central Research Institute of Precision Mechanics of Russia Albert Bakov, the secret of TsNIITOCHMASH experts lies in the fact that each Udav bullet carries an armor-piercing bullet core. Despite skepticism during the design process, it was later proven that the design of this cartridge did not affect the accuracy of each shot. According to the Rostec press center, the development of TsNIITOCHMASH has been recognized as an invention and has been officially patented by the Intellectual Property Office of the Russian Federation. TsNIITOCHMASH is one of the leading Russian weapons developers. The history of this research and production enterprise dates back to 1944. Over the past 75 years, TsNIITOCHMASH experts have produced more than 150 models of small-caliber guns, artillery, anti-tank weapons and ammunition. The most well-known products are the Ratnhik combat kit, underwater guns – SPP-1 pistols and APS automatic guns, as well as specialized weapons: SR-1M and PSS pistols, submachine guns SR-2 and SR -3M compact size. It is also possible to mention the anti-tank missile system “Kornet”, self-propelled artillery “Nona” and “Lotos”. Within the framework of the Army-2019 forum, Rostec Corporation introduced the 9 mm Udav self-loading pistol, developed at TsNIITOCHMASH. Some pictures of Udav pistols: (Photo: Rostec)

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.

According to a recent report by the US Senate Intelligence Committee, the number of suspected cases of Havana syndrome worldwide is increasing. According to the New York Times, there have been more than 130 US officials with this neurological syndrome worldwide in the past 5 years, and at least one person has had symptoms in the past two weeks. The figures have raised concerns within the Biden administration, especially as the cause and cure for Havana’s syndrome remains a mystery. Havana syndrome first appeared in US officials five years ago. “Unusual health incident” “ How can you fight something you don’t know well? “, a US intelligence official expressed concern about the mysterious Havana syndrome. Under pressure from lawmakers and victims of Havana syndrome, the Biden administration has stepped up efforts to “identify the cause of these unusual health incidents,” according to a statement from a spokesperson at the office. Office of the Director of the National Intelligence Service (CIA) on May 18. However, the reality shows that it is difficult to pinpoint the exact causes and symptoms of Havana syndrome. Victims of the syndrome report a multitude of different symptoms. This has scientists, engineers and medical professionals fiercely arguing about whether all cases of Havana stem from a single cause. CNN’s source said the US government has found a blood test that can detect some signs of Havana syndrome. The test was applied to intelligence officers with a recently discovered neurological syndrome, and at least one of the victims was a White House official. But testing alone is not enough information to make a definite diagnosis of this strange disease. Many Havana syndrome research institutions are developing a type of sensor device that can detect abnormalities to identify victims. However, this tool only helps detect the syndrome and cannot protect or improve the condition of the sufferer. The Biden administration has stepped up efforts to determine the cause of Havana syndrome. (Photo: CNN) Foreign secret weapon? In March, the US National Academy of Sciences reported finding “directed radiofrequency energy” most likely to be responsible for a series of strange neurological symptoms of Havana syndrome. This is called the “microwave theory”. However, US officials note that this theory has not been confirmed, some scholars have openly rejected the theory. CNN’s source said that the content of the microwave theory is purely based on external symptoms. This theory is not convincing because Havana syndrome victims have many and different symptoms. In 2014, the US National Security Agency revealed that intelligence on cases of officials with Havana syndrome since 2012 indicated it could be caused by “a high-powered microwave weapon capable of can produce a variety of effects on the human body, including damage to the nervous system.” But the National Security Agency has not confirmed the existence of this dangerous weapon, or information about the country that developed it. The US National Security Agency revealed that Havana syndrome could be caused by “a type of microwave weapon”. (Photo: CNN) Many US officials question how such a weapon could be so charged and so precise that it only damages the target’s brain. And equally important is if Havana syndrome is a man-made attack, who or what organization is behind this conspiracy? According to the US official, there is some evidence that Russia is likely to be the culprit because it is one of the few countries that has researched and developed a tool that is believed to be the weapon that causes Havana syndrome. Some researchers on Havana Syndrome say that if the cause of the disease is advanced foreign equipment, the purpose of its creation is to gather information from US officials. “ I don’t know if they happened to find a mechanism that would allow it (Havana syndrome) to be used as a weapon system, or are they just trying to collect (data) that could be detrimental to the country. America “, a CNN source said. To date, the investigation into this mysterious neurological syndrome is still ongoing, there is currently no evidence to prove that Havana syndrome is created by forces hostile to the United States, or the symptoms and treatment for this disease. those infected.

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.”

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.

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.

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./.

USCentcom was established in 1983 and is one of the 11 armed forces’ command posts. USCentcom’s Area of ​​Responsibility (AOR) includes the Middle East, Egypt, Central Asia, and parts of South Asia. The USCentcom headquarters is not in its operational area, but within the MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa (Florida), a new and 26,217 square meter building completed in the year. 2012. The new building will include key spaces for specialized tasks such as the Joint Command Operations Center, the General Planning and Operations Division, the Network Operations Center, and the Operations Center. operation safety information command. The new headquarters building also includes a 10,126 square meter (SCIF) Sensitive Zone Information Facility (SCIF), as well as sound transmission layered (STC) 45 and 50 spaces to support safe operations. . Relevant anti-terrorism standards include advanced collapse mitigation by force-bound means, which are also integrated into the new headquarters. Military communications equipment currently in use at USCentcom headquarters can also be seen in the 60 Minutes program, which shows footage taken in two large-scale operations rooms. small and large. In the large operation room there are sizable TV screens hung on the walls and several rows of work stations, each with 2 sets of communication devices, 1 for access to classified telephones, and computer networks, and other sets of equipment for networks that have not been classified. According to the US grading system color codes, the phone and smart card reader will have a green label for the unsorted Systems, and a red label for the Crypto Systems. Major operations / operations center at USCentcom headquarters. photo taken January 2021. Photo source: 60 Minutes. Some computers display a bright red lock screen with the words “Confidential” meaning only applicable for authorized purposes, and that means they are part of SIPRNet: the primary classified secure network of The US military is used for tactical and operational information. The US military’s unsecured unsecured computer network is also known as NIPRNet. Identification of users authorized to mine NIPRNet will be done through a Common Access Card (CAC), which is the standard of identification for active US defense personnel. Accessing the SIPRNET requires a SIPRNet token, which is also a smart tag but does not have a clear identification information. In addition to the NIPRNet and SIPRNet networks, USCentcom also has other separate computer networks for coordination with overseas partners. For members of bilateral and multinational alliances, the US has provided a network architecture called Integrated Enterprise Area Information Interchange Systems (Centrixs), which operates at a decentralized level. Type Confidential / Notified for (national identifier). The first Centrixs networks were established in late 2001 by USCentcom to support coalition activities within the framework of the Campaign for Sustainable Freedom (OEF). This has resulted in a new alliance called Centrixs-Isaf for operations in Afghanistan, and Centrixs-Gctf (Global Counterterrorism Forces). Meanwhile, both systems are integrated in the USCentcom Partner Network (CPN). General McKenzie’s communication device in his command room. Photo source: 60 Minutes. The Centrixs network consists of servers and provides users with at least the applications that will give them the same basic capabilities as US systems users, such as: Microsoft Office; Command and control personal computer (C2PC); Integrated imaging and intelligence (I3). These applications allow access to real-time warfare (NRT) commands from MIDB databases and image databases to display data on a map basis. They can also access other browser-based products, or send emails with attachments and conduct collaborative sessions. For US military users, the system is part of the Global Command and Control System (GCCS), which includes more than 200 tools and applications to combine data from multiple sensors. and intelligence sources intended to create a kind of graphic representation of battle spaces. There is also mention of the telephone systems used at USCentcom. The major operations / operations center at USCentcom headquarters also has a range of Cisco IP phones, the 7975, or more recently, 8841. The Cisco 8841 IP phone generation looks like a commercial phone, but in fact it is a modified version of the small-scale telecom security firm CIS Secure Computing Inc. These modified phones are authorized for use in SCIF (Sensitive Subdivision Information Base) and SAPF (Special Access Program Facilities) environments, and provide security features. plugin that can perform “hold” and “mute” operations while on a phone call. Personal control and command computer interface (C2PC). Communication equipment of the USCentcom commander The reporter met with General Frank McKenzie in a small room outside his main operations center at USCentcom headquarters. In this small room, Commander McKenzie had additional communications equipment that did not appear to be available to personnel at the large operations center. For example, the Cisco DX 70 video monitor with video camera is probably the Secure Video Remote Conferencing System (SVTS) which is part of the Crisis Management System (CMS) to enable the high level video meeting. There is also a Cisco IP 8841 phone with a special yellow border for highly secure operating networks through a secure IP, which is also part of the Crisis Management System (CMS) and connection to General system, National Security Council, Cabinet members, Joint Chiefs of Staff, various intelligence agency surveillance centers, headquarters, and Continuity of Operations (COOPs). ); Touch screen operator phone (TXP) with 2 units of Touch Screen Line Extension consisting of 50 buttons (TLE), this device is manufactured by small-scale telecom security firm Telecore, Inc. It also invented Integrated Service Phone (IST-2), which used to be on the Oval Office desk during the two generations of President Bush and Obama. These devices are specifically designed for the Defense Red Switch Network (DRSN), as well as provide conference, command, and control capabilities for top-secret / SCI military commanders. It was revealed in the 60 Minute Program that in that small room during the attack on the Al Asad base, Commander McKenzie spoke directly to the Secretary of Defense and the President. There are also two computer screens in General McKenzie’s small room. Right at the top of the desktop background is a yellow bar signifying JWICS. Unlike NIPRNet and SIPRNet networks, access to JWICS does not require a smart card, but a software certificate is required: military users must confirm themselves with the Department of Defense PKI certificate, but Others require IC PKI certificate. General McKenzie’s touchscreen phone. Photo source: 60 Minutes. A very interesting device in the USCentcom command room is the IC Desktop Environment. The phrase “Community Intelligence Community Desktop Environment” (IC DTE) was founded in 2012 as a single and identical platform for the US Intelligence Community. In fact, this is the focus of a giant modernization project called the Information Community Intelligence Technology Enterprise (IC ITE), whereby the data will be stored in a Commercial Cloud Service ( C2S) is managed by the CIA, and handled at IC GovCloud managed by the NSA. DTE deployments are managed by the Office of Joint Program Management (JPMO) led by DIA and NGA, while the software system is built by BAE Systems under a five-year contract worth $ 300 million. . With DTE, analysts at DIA, NGA, and other US intelligence agencies can go anywhere within these organizations, sit at any top secret workstation, log in, authenticate, and track. access to e-mail, work folders, shared files … In addition to virtual desktops, DTE has desktop applications and access to popular services including Unified Service Communication. The NSA is responsible for the so-called App Marketplaces, which are the app stores of various intelligence agencies. As early as 2014, there were 4,000 DTE users at DIA and NGA. By 2018, Mr. John Sherman, Chief Information Officer of the US Intelligence Community wants to take the DTE even further by creating the Collaborative Reference Architecture (CRA). Now US intelligence agencies can create applications that match their needs as long as they comply with the standards set by the CRA to ensure compatibility across different systems.

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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SVR’s secure messaging system interface on Tor. Photo: The Record Those with information about imminent threats to Russia can now “tease” Russian intelligence agencies using the Tor browser on the darknet (network of inaccessible websites. from search engine). According to Russia Beyond, the announcement of a new confidential information system and other information related to Russian national security has just been posted on the website of the General Department of Foreign Intelligence (SVR). By clicking on the button “Report information” in the bottom left corner of the main page, users receive specific instructions as follows: “If you are outside Russia and have important information related to An urgent threat to the security of the Russian Federation, you can securely and anonymously share it with us through SVR’s virtual reception system (VRS) over the TOR network ”. The SVR claims the new darknet system will allow notified individuals to securely and anonymously share data and details with local authorities. It also provides a public PGP key as an additional layer of security for encrypting messages sent over the new virtual receiving system (VRS). When a user first visits this website for the purpose of sending information related to Russian national security, they will receive a 5-word code needed to decode the intelligence messages if they wish. contact the recipient of the denunciation

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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.

Former Czech President Vaclav Klaus. Photo: TASS “We are punishing one of the great powers in the world … I see this as proof that our country does not have a proper foreign policy,” former Czech President Vaclav Klaus on April 23 told Blesk newspaper. is based in Prague, mentioning Czech-Russian diplomatic tensions, TASS reported. Mr. Vaclav Klaus also said that the fact that Czech diplomats tried to blame Russian intelligence for the Vrbetice explosion in 2014 and used it as an excuse to expel Russian diplomats, is an act of trying to score points with The United States and the NATO military in the hope of receiving support. According to Mr. Klaus, the Czechs were hasty in this case. He argued that Prague “should have waited for true and serious evidence” before making any conclusions regarding the Vrbetice explosion. “It was a mistake to issue an ultimatum to Russia before having the facts,” Klaus warned. The former Czech president also revealed that he had discussions with his successor, current Czech President Milos Zeman, about tensions with Russia and the explosion seven years ago in Vrbetice. Russia-Czech relations became strained after Prague last week expelled 18 Russian diplomats accused of being officers of intelligence services. Prague also questioned Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency was involved in the ammunition explosion in Vrbetice in October 2014 that caused two deaths. Russia denied all related allegations and asked 20 staff of the Czech Embassy in Moscow to leave Russian territory in response. Moscow’s strong retaliation surprised Czechs. On April 22, the Czech Republic again expelled 63 more Russian diplomats and staff, followed by corresponding action from Russia.

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.

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.

To show solidarity with neighboring Czech Republic (Czech), Slovakia expelled three Russian diplomats, the news agency. TASS reporting. Citing sources from Slovak media on April 22, TASS said Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger had notified Slovakia of the deportation order and asked three Russian diplomats to leave Slovakia “in the next seven days”. Slovakia’s decision came after neighboring Czech country called on European allies to support Prague’s stance in expelling 18 Russian diplomats for accusing Moscow of being involved in a number of ammunition explosions. in the Czech Republic in 2014. Russian Embassy in Bratislava (Slovakia). Photo: AFP Slovakia is an ally in the European Union (EU) and the North Atlantic Treaty Bloc (NATO). The Czech Republic and Slovakia had a period of forming a unified state, known as Czechoslovakia, before a peaceful split in 1993. Prime Minister Heger explained that Slovakia’s decision to target diplomatic missions “did not respect the” principles of international law “, and stressed that the Bratislava government” desperately needed to do everything possible. to ensure security and for diplomatic missions working in Slovakia to comply with the laws (of Slovakia) and international agreements “. Accordingly, the decision to expel Russian diplomats was made by Slovakia “based on information from intelligence agencies (of Slovakia) who cooperated closely with the partner’s intelligence agencies. “and” based on the situation in the geopolitical space and current events in the Czech Republic – a country where Slovakia shows its solidarity and support “. Slovakia Jaroslav Nad noted that Bratislava’s decision was not a “cliché act” but was based on the fact that the activities of three Russian diplomats “went beyond established rules. in the international environment “. Responding to reporters’ questions about Slovakia’s move, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Moscow was “deeply disappointed by Bratislava’s unfriendly actions”. Ms. Zakharova accused Slovakia of “showing false solidarity” with an act Moscow called a “fabrication incident” presented by Prague. Russia has repeatedly denied its involvement in military incidents in the Czech Republic and has taken diplomatic retaliation measures. The representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry also said that Moscow will soon take measures to retaliate against the deportation order of Bratislava.

Czech Foreign Minister Jakub Kulhanek announced that Russia would not be allowed to have more diplomats in Prague than the number of Czech diplomats currently available at their embassy in Moscow. Except for the number of diplomats allowed to be maintained, all remaining staff at the Russian embassy in Prague had to leave by the end of May. Notice comes after Russia expulsion 20 Czech diplomats on April 18 in retaliation for the Czech government’s expulsion of 18 Russian diplomats, identified as spies by Russian intelligence services. Russian Embassy in Prague. Photo: PM. The Czech government objected to what it called Russia’s “inappropriate response”, saying that Russia crippled the Czech Embassy in Moscow. Foreign Minister Kulhanek warned that if Russia does not regulate the expulsion of Czech diplomats at the last minute, he will cut the staffing of the Russian Embassy in Prague to be equal to their remaining staff at the embassy. Checks in Moscow. Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that the ministry had summoned the Czech ambassador on April 22. “It is unacceptable to speak to Russia,” said Ms. Zakharova.

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.

“The masterpiece” Golden Bridge at the Sun World Ba Na Hills tourist site has just been voted by the British Daily Mail to be the top 1 among the new wonders of the world. Van Don International Airport – A leading regional airport in the world Before Van Don International Airport was officially put into operation, the history of Vietnam’s aviation industry never appeared at a private airport. After less than a year in operation, this airport quickly won the title of “Asia’s leading new airport”, then “World’s Leading Regional Airport 2020” by the prestigious World Travel Award. Van Don international airport. The journey to create this century project has been costly by CPG – Singapore’s leading consulting firm and Sun Group. To create a new “gateway” with good impressions for the Northeast, experts have carefully consulted experiences and suitable models in the world, especially Bao An Tham International Airport. Quyen – one of the 3 largest international airports in China, which holds the strategic connection of domestic and international traffic routes similar to Van Don international airport. Refining the quintessence of the design of this famous airport, the talented architects of CPG have cleverly arranged the most characteristic beauties of nature, heaven, and water waves in Quang Ninh into the home design. the station of Van Don airport in a truly natural green space. Welcoming visitors is the dome of the station that resembles stacked sails reaching out to the open and open sea. Meanwhile, the system of wooden louvers, gardens, slopes, shutters, and windows evokes the beauty of traditional architectural works in the heritage region of Quang Ninh. In particular, all passengers when taking the flight to Van Don will be greeted with “the sound of running water, rustling green leaves” – a green space and filled with relaxing light right in the very place of the trip. – About still hustle going With an investment of about 7,500 billion VND, welcoming the most modern aircraft in the world such as A380, B777, Van Don international airport has become a brand guaranteeing prestige, quality of service and class of private infrastructure projects in Vietnam. Van Don International Airport welcomes the people back home. Last year, Van Don International Airport also created a miracle when performing the national mission, becoming an airport to welcome flights from epidemic zones to safe countries. More than 180 such meaningful flights have been carried out at the airport as of March 2020. InterContinental Danang Sun Peninsula Resort – A rare resort masterpiece in the world Referring to the works that make the mark of Vietnam, it is impossible not to mention the world’s leading luxury resort, a place that enchants the super-rich, billionaires, and Grade A stars – InterContinental Danang Sun Peninsula Resort do Sun Group invests in Da Nang. This is the only resort in the world for four consecutive years (2014 – 2017) to win the World Travel Award in the category of “World’s Most Luxury Resort” and “Friendly resort. the world’s leading environment ”for 3 consecutive years (2018 – 2020), creating a miracle in the hospitality industry. InterCon Danang Sun Peninsula Resort. InterContinental Danang Sun Peninsula Resort converges architectural quintessence and traditional Asian cultural values, with 5-star service privileges in more than 200 luxurious rooms facing the sea at the hands of “resort witch” Bill Bensley. Not only is an architectural masterpiece hidden between the forest and the sea, giving visitors the feeling of relaxation as being in the beautiful nature of Son Tra, InterContinental Danang Sun Peninsula Resort also has a system of restaurants and services. state-of-the-art and state-of-the-art entertainment, relaxation, practice. The exclusive privileges at the InterContinental Danang Sun Peninsula Resort have conquered the leaders of the world’s largest economies and made the resort the venue for important meetings of the Asia Economic Forum – Pacific APEC 2017. Quality, class and distinction, InterContinental Danang Sun Peninsula Resort has proven the attraction of Vietnam’s luxury resort products, while contributing to raising the position of Vietnamese tourism on the world tourism map. Sun World Ba Na Hills – Asia’s premier theme park Bringing Vietnam’s tourism to the global reputation, there are also world-class entertainment resorts, typically Sun World Ba Na Hills – the world’s leading iconic tourist destination in 2020, awarded by the World Travel Award. This is also a famous tourist area around the world with the famous Golden Bridge “masterpiece”, has just been voted by the British Daily Mail to be the top 1 among the new wonders of the world on March 19. Sun World Ba Na Hills. Sun World Ba Na Hills is considered as “miniature Europe” with magnificent castles, old gray stone streets tinged with the color of time, and the flower space is as full of flowers as the miniature Netherlands in the surrounding mountains. cloudy years and festivals throughout the four seasons. From the tulip festival when spring comes, the Oktoberfest standard Oktoberfest B “estival Beer Festival every summer, the autumn wine festival, or the Halloween festival, the traditional Christmas in winter to world-class art shows. Like a large-scale, majestic sunshine ball with the participation of more than 230 international actors, the 1,484-meter-high resort constantly brings unforgettable experiences to visitors, whenever they set foot. come here. With endless and constantly renewed experiences, Sun World Ba Na Hills has realized Sun Group’s dream, which is to give Vietnamese people the opportunity to “explore worthy entertainment areas. internationalization at home instead of going abroad to play the park ”, and beyond that, making foreign tourists yearn to come to Vietnam to enjoy the unprecedented experience in the world.

• 1 white radish plant

• 1anhanh leaves

• 1 chili

• Spices: salt, oyster oil, sesame oil

Illustration.

Making:

Step 1:

• Wash radish, peel, cut into thin pieces about 0.2 cm

• Put each slice into a deep plate so that it is even and beautiful.

Step 2:

• Pour a moderate amount of water into the steamer, then add the radish.

• Turn the heat to high, when the water is boiling, lower the heat and let it sit for 10 minutes.

Step 3:

• During the steaming process, radish will release a quantity of distilled water. Cut out and pour into a small bowl.

-Add the flavoring water with the following proportions: 1 salt coffee, 1 oyster sauce, fish soup with sesame oil + a few small chili slices.

• Sprinkle this sauce + green onion mixture on a radish plate and enjoy.

This dish is simple and easy to make, but it will definitely melt the tip of the tongue of family members, even good for health, especially the intelligence of children.

4 effects of white radish on human health:

1. Reducing bad cholesterol: According to a scientific study, adding more radish in the diet will significantly reduce serum cholesterol and triglyceride levels, significantly increase HDL cholesterol (good cholesterol).

2. Helps relieve pain effectively: The spicy substance in radish has antibacterial properties, significantly reduces pain, strengthens the immune system, especially children.

3. Help the liver to function well: Radish contains betaine bioactive, supporting healthy liver function.

4. Good for the brain: A study at Wake Forest University has shown that high levels of nitrates in radish can increase blood flow to the brain, enhancing brain health. Especially effective for developing intelligence of children.

The rented house has hidden safety hazards. Before I found out, the community grid staff had come to help eliminate all hidden safety hazards. Are you particularly envious of such a city?

Nantong, a medium-sized coastal city, took the lead in building China’s first urban governance command center. The command center uses artificial intelligence technology to research and judge through the technical support provided by JD Cloud. When potential violations are foreseen, the command center will unearth specific risks through the group rental smart management and control platform, and activate the “linked command” function to appoint grid personnel Go to the door for targeted services.

The magic of cloud technology has long surpassed people’s existing understanding that cloud disks can be stored in mass. The goal that JD Cloud wants to achieve is one network operation and one network management.

Shanxi Datong, JD Cloud upgraded the traditional 12345 manual hotline to an omnipresent and ubiquitous intelligent hotline. With the help of JD Cloud’s technology, Datong City has been integrated into the government affairs hotline throughout the entire process, allowing the 12345 hotline to “make progress, answer accurately, everything goes well, and everything has an answer.” The most interesting thing is that the smart hotline can understand Datong dialect and judge people’s emotions by their tone and speed of sound, thus changing the tone of voice.

Technology is making cities smarter, and it’s also making cities warmer.

The ancient capital of Xi’an, with the help of JD Cloud technology, has explored the way for the Internet to provide for the elderly. Various sensors in the community conduct real-time self-checking through the Internet of Things. If any link fails, the system will accurately prompt the property staff to intervene. If the elderly need help, they can get all-weather general practitioner videos, housekeeping cleaning within half an hour, and some food delivery services within one hour by just pressing their mobile phones.

We have found that with the empowerment of technologies such as JD Cloud, the city we are in is gradually moving towards a smart and humanized picture. City managers can provide more diversified and more precise services to improve the quality of life of citizens.

Source: Financial World Network

With the effective control of the domestic epidemic and the rapid recovery of the domestic manufacturing market, smart manufacturing has become one of the most watched tracks. Some smart manufacturing companies have been investigated by a large number of investment institutions and have gained the favor of capital.

For example, a research report released by Hillhouse Capital last year stated that Hillhouse will continue to expand its investment footprint in subdivided fields such as information automation, industrial Internet, and intelligent robots, and at the same time use the power of capital to connect the new economy and traditional industries to realize society Sustainable economic development.

Harbin Industrial Intelligence (000584), as a leading domestic enterprise engaged in intelligent manufacturing business, has a full industrial chain layout around industrial robots, has core technology and production capacity, or will benefit from the benefits of policies that encourage the development of intelligent manufacturing.

Main business focuses on the field of robotics and artificial intelligence

Harbin Industrial Intelligence is a leading enterprise in the domestic special equipment manufacturing industry, mainly involved in the two major fields of robotics and artificial intelligence. It is mainly engaged in intelligent manufacturing business. It has a full industrial chain layout around industrial robots. Currently, it has formed core components covering upstream industrial robots and midstream industries. The complete industrial chain of robot body and downstream industrial robot applications and industrial robot services. It can professionally provide advanced intelligent flexible production lines for customers in industries such as automobiles, auto parts, and medical equipment. The company currently serves more than 30 customers including Tesla (Shanghai), NIO, BYD, Shanghai Volkswagen, China FAW Group, French Renault, Chery Jaguar Land Rover, Changan Ford, Volvo, Guangzhou Automobile Honda, Brilliance BMW, Baoneng Automobile, etc. Many well-known automobile manufacturers at home and abroad, as well as international first-line auto parts suppliers such as Cosma and Gestamp.

In order to further improve profitability and maintain strong market competitiveness, Harbin Industrial Intelligence continues to strengthen cooperation with high-end auto companies. In the first quarter of this year, it undertook the lotus project, which used multiple advanced technologies, such as narrow-side spr, FDS (self-tapping screw connection), aluminum laser welding, etc. The entire system was developed by the company itself. In addition, Harbin Industrial Intelligence is also the second intelligent manufacturing enterprise in China that adopts the advanced technology of “automatic tightening assembly of rear cover based on vision system”. The company uses its first-mover advantage to further develop new energy vehicle corporate customers. In the first quarter of this year, Harbin Industrial Intelligence signed new energy vehicle production line orders with Weilai, Nanning Ningda, Geely PMA, Yutong Automobile and other auto companies. In the future, it will further increase cooperation with new energy vehicle companies and strive to contribute to the country’s new energy strategy. Make due contributions.

In addition, Harbin Industrial Intelligence has recently relied on its technological advantages to quickly enter the military industry. On January 17, Harbin Industrial Intelligence announced that it intends to acquire 97.9626% of the equity of Jiangji Minke. Jiangji Minke can create synergies in the military business with Harbin Industrial Intelligent Subsidiary Ruifu Electromechanical, which will promote the company’s diversified development and increase new performance growth. point.

On January 25, Harbin Industrial Intelligence also signed the “Strategic Cooperation Framework Agreement” with Aerospace Xintong Technology Co., Ltd. to further strengthen the exchanges of products, technologies, markets, and personnel between the two parties, and jointly promote 5G, artificial intelligence, big data, and high-end The popularization and commercialization of technologies such as intelligent manufacturing and robotics in state-owned industrial enterprises jointly promote the technological transformation and industrial upgrading of key state-owned enterprises.

The future development potential of the intelligent manufacturing industry is huge

Insiders pointed out that the industrial Internet, as a software element of factory digitization, its long-term economic empowerment lies in promoting “cost reduction and efficiency enhancement” in the production and sales management link. The Industrial Internet is the core path for the transformation of the domestic manufacturing industry. Examples of applications in textile, electronics, auto parts and other fields have already appeared. Traditional domestic manufacturers are still facing the situation of low industrial added value and low capacity utilization rate, and the marginal output value of the industrial Internet has enabled the performance of the existing trend in recent years.

Ping An Securities Research Report previously stated that the “14th Five-Year Plan” provides guidance for the future development of the intelligent manufacturing industry. There are a lot of investment opportunities in robotics, high-end CNC machine tools, semiconductor equipment, lithium battery equipment, photovoltaic equipment, rail transit equipment and other fields.

During the 2020 International Industry Fair, Harbin Industrial Intelligence, with the theme of “New Technology, New Industry, New Medical”, showcased new products such as blood sampling and puncture robots, HA006B intelligent arc welding machine, various application robot workstations, and AI industrial design and vision. The cutting-edge achievements in the field show the world the intellectual power of China’s high-end intelligent manufacturing.

In 2021, Harbin Industrial Intelligence stated that it will be based on the automotive industry. On the one hand, it will strive to break the monopoly of foreign brands in the application of industrial robots in the automotive field by improving product performance, cost-effectiveness, and process level; on the other hand, it will also work hard in arc welding. , Ship welding, hardware industry and other general industrial fields have made breakthroughs. In addition, Harbin Engineering Intelligence will invest a lot of manpower and financial resources in the research and development of robot ontology, including process algorithms, control algorithms, etc.; it plans to form a research and development team focusing on AI vision to strengthen its dominant position in the field of artificial intelligence applications. In the future, the company will accumulate strength in the research and development of new technologies, expand the “new industry + new medical” layout, and work hard to serve and continue to empower China’s intelligent manufacturing.

CIA director William Burns is concerned about losing intelligence when the US withdraws its troops from Afghanista. Photo: Reuters

According to Reuters (UK), at the hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Mr. William Burns highlighted the important risk inherent in the decision of President Joe Biden, to withdraw all remaining forces. of the United States in Afghanistan, despite the existence of al-Qaeda and Islamic State militants.

“By the time US troops withdraw from Afghanistan, the US government’s ability to gather information and act on threats will decline. It’s the truth, ”said Burns, a veteran US deputy foreign minister, who took over as CIA director last month.

However, the head of the CIA also added that the US government is likely to keep some parts after the withdrawal, to help make intelligence predictions and resist efforts to restore the team. al-Qaeda terrorist organization.

Mr. Burns’ warning reflects the concerns of many experts that the withdrawal will significantly less secure US intelligence officers, limiting their ability to gather information in a timely manner.

“In the broader perspective, surveillance for US threats will be significantly reduced so that preventive measures can be taken. The Washington administration will no longer be able to cooperate directly with the Afghan security forces, ”said Lisa Curtis, a former White House top advisor to Afghanistan during the former Trump administration.

Ms. Curtis also questioned which US anti-terrorist forces would be relocated outside of Afghanistan, citing “historical hardship” that had placed American forces in “the most appropriate locations. “is Pakistan and Uzbekistan.

American soldiers step out of bases in Uruzgan province, Afghanistan. Photo: Reuters

Meanwhile, President Joe Biden said the US will still monitor terrorist threats, reorganize its counterterrorism forces and retain substantial assets in the region to respond to threats from Afghanistan after withdrawal.

Marc Polymeropoulos, a former top CIA officer who served in Afghanistan, said intelligence agencies often rely on the US military for critical assistance such as security and medical evacuation. He worries if US troops withdraw from here, how the intelligence community will stay.

Previously, President Joe Biden announced that he would withdraw the last 2,500 US troops from Afghanistan before 9/11, the 20th anniversary of al Qaeda’s terrorist attack on the US and usher in the country’s longest war.

President Biden’s decision shows that the US military presence is no longer decisive in achieving lasting peace in Afghanistan, a core assumption that the Pentagon uses as a foundation for military deployment. American team here.

A UN report in January said there are still up to 500 al Qaeda terrorist fighters in Afghanistan. At the same time, the Taliban are also maintaining a close relationship with this terrorist organization. However, the Taliban denied the allegation and claimed that no al-Qaeda members remained active in Afghanistan.