The first day of the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Conference ends! The views of these 10 guests are on fire

On July 6, 2023, the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC for short) kicked off in Shanghai. Statistics show that the conference attracted more than 1,000 guests, including more than 80 academicians, 4 winners of the Turing Award, and entrepreneurial leaders like Elon Musk.

Some participants felt that this artificial intelligence conference felt like a symposium on ChatGPT. This means that this artificial intelligence conference is discussing the hottest topics in the world.

The following are the wonderful sharing of the guests at the scene, organized by Babbitt.

Artificial intelligence will play an important role in the evolution of human beings in the future and have a profound impact on civilization. In the future, the computing power of robots will far exceed that of humans, which seems to be a development trend. This will have positive effects, but also some negative effects. — Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk

In the future, any company needs to have the ability to control digital technology, and every application in every company will be driven by artificial intelligence. The technological breakthrough of artificial intelligence is bringing unprecedented innovation opportunities and challenges to all walks of life. ——Hou Yang, Senior Vice President of Microsoft, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft Greater China

In the past six or seven years, there has been a line dispute in the academic and ideological circles of AI, that is to say, whether it is correct for us to rely on the line of reinforcement learning. I think we should stick to the path of research and development of reinforcement learning, which will be of great benefit to the future development of general artificial intelligence, and there is still a long way to go for the improvement of AGI technology. ——Yao Qizhi, winner of the Turing Award, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and dean of the Institute of Interdisciplinary Information, Tsinghua University

Artificial intelligence is the hottest topic, which means that the direction is clear, and the rest is the path problem. Huawei's choice is to promote artificial intelligence from deep to practical. The first is to deeply cultivate computing power and build a computing power base. The second is to combine large-scale models, research and innovation from general-purpose large-scale models to industry-scale large-scale models, so that artificial intelligence service accounts can conduct scientific research in thousands of industries. —— Hu Houkun, Rotating Chairman of Huawei

Some people are afraid of artificial intelligence and want it to be strictly regulated. They think that anyone can do anything with artificial intelligence, so it is dangerous. I completely disagree. In the long run, to make an AI platform safe and benign is to make it open source. In the future, everyone will be able to communicate with the digital world through artificial intelligence assistants. This is not okay if AI is only controlled by a few people. ——Yang Likun, winner of the 2018 Turing Award

AI research should remain open and global, because no matter where good science occurs, it will be good for the development of science everywhere. I encourage open science. — Saif Rahman, Chairman and CEO, IEEE

The development of artificial intelligence in my country has achieved remarkable results, but the level of basic resource construction needs to be improved. Judging from the reported data, the overall performance is four characteristics. First, the rankings of 10 third-level indicators have risen, mainly focusing on network infrastructure, talents, education, innovation systems, and patents. Second, the number of advantageous indicators continues to grow, with the number of top five indicators increasing from 12 in 2020 to 18 in 2022. Third, most of the indicators lag behind the United States, 9 of the 11 secondary indicators lag behind the United States, and 24 of the 33 tertiary indicators lag behind the United States. Fourth, the data and network foundation need to be improved, the quality and openness of public data are not high, and many indicators of the network foundation are still at the lower middle level of the participating countries. ——Zhao Zhiyun, Director of China Institute of Scientific and Technological Information

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology is fully promoting teaching based on generative artificial intelligence. Universities cannot resist ChatGPT, because artificial intelligence is a very important revolution, and its impact on education is fundamental. It will affect educational concepts, methods, tools, student abilities, etc. Traditional education is to impart knowledge. Traditional education in the AI era is AI as a tool. Education under the influence of generative artificial intelligence requires the creative application of artificial intelligence in education, so that students can become co-creators from consumers. Education in the era of generative artificial intelligence needs to equip students with critical skills, creativity, and the ability to communicate with machines. We who are smart should use the smart machines we create to train smarter people, and they will create smarter machines. ——Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Vice President Guo Yike

In the field of film production, there are about 24 AI-related applications, including script creation, shooting, publicity and so on. AIGC is greatly affecting film production. For example, Midjourney is very effective in the concept art design of science fiction movies. For the same picture, a designer with decades of experience needs to draw it for a week, but MJ can produce a lot of pictures in one night. Even, when the director saw these design drawings, the works of human designers were the first to be eliminated. ——Guo Fan, director of The Wandering Earth

I like to read two kinds of books the most, one is science fiction literature and the other is Chinese classical literature. The source of MidJourney’s name is Zhuangzi, Zhuang Zhou’s Dream Butterfly, which corresponds to the Chinese “middle way”. How will AIGC technology develop in the future? It’s hard to say what will happen to future technology. Our development in this field has just begun, and there will be 10-fold, 100-fold progress in the future. Not only technology, but we will make more progress in user interface, products and other fields. —David Holtz, founder of MidJourney