Artificial intelligence is becoming an important engine to promote social progress and sustained economic prosperity. This year’s government work report proposes to accelerate the development of industrial Internet, cultivate and expand digital industries such as integrated circuits and artificial intelligence, and improve the innovation and supply capacity of key software and hardware technologies.
As a deputy to the National People’s Congress who has been deeply involved in the artificial intelligence industry for many years, most of the suggestions of Iflytek Co.Ltd(002230) Chairman Liu Qingfeng over the years are related to artificial intelligence. This year, among the eight suggestions brought by Liu Qingfeng, they also involve a number of livelihood topics such as new artificial intelligence technologies to help education, medical care, elderly care, barrier free communication and so on.
Liu Qingfeng pointed out that in the past five years, the artificial intelligence industry has experienced rapid development. Today, in order to solve major social propositions such as education and medical treatment, artificial intelligence must build a complex intelligent system of man-machine cooperation and self evolution to realize systematic innovation.
“Through systematic innovation, we can solve major social propositions. Education, medical care, pension and smart city all need systematic innovation, which can be connected at the bottom through a number of key technologies, and form the linkage of technology, products and service management resources.” Recently, in an interview with 21st Century Business Herald reporter, Liu Qingfeng said.
need higher vision
As a deputy to the 13th National People’s Congress, Liu Qingfeng has continued to make suggestions on the development of artificial intelligence industry in the past five years.
During the national two sessions in 2017 alone, Liu Qingfeng submitted nine relevant suggestions to the conference, covering source technological innovation, standard setting, industrial ecology building and so on. By the second half of 2017, with the issuance of the development plan of new generation artificial intelligence by the State Council, the release of the first batch of four national platforms for open innovation of new generation artificial intelligence, and the subsequent approval of the construction of the “State Key Laboratory of cognitive intelligence”, it can be seen that our suggestions have played a certain role in the national development strategy in the field of artificial intelligence. “
Compared with five years ago, Liu Qingfeng’s current suggestions are more closely combined with practical development, involving a large number of social and livelihood topics.
For example, in the medical field, Liu Qingfeng found that with the acceleration of population aging, the proportion of patients with chronic diseases, especially elderly patients with chronic diseases, is rising. The huge group of chronic diseases not only imposes a huge burden on basic public health, but also increases the operation pressure of medical insurance fund.
In this regard, in the “suggestions on accelerating the promotion of AI chronic disease management and deeply implementing the healthy China strategy”, he proposed to apply AI general practice assisted diagnosis technology and intelligent voice outbound call ability to grass-roots chronic disease management, so as to improve the efficiency of chronic disease management of grass-roots doctors, improve the timely treatment rate of patients with chronic diseases and reduce the hospitalization rate caused by chronic diseases, Effectively reduce patients’ medical expenses and medical insurance expenses.
In the field of education, Liu Qingfeng pointed out that the current new teaching and learning terminals have great application value and social significance for the implementation of the “double reduction”. However, they are not included in the scope of procurement in the catalogue of centralized procurement of education system departments, resulting in difficulties in applying for funds in the majority of regions that need to use. At the same time, there is a lack of unified standards for selecting new teaching and learning terminals.
“China’s artificial intelligence industry has developed rapidly in the past five years, so relevant suggestions should be considered from the perspective of industrial ecology and national industrial security. It really needs a broader vision.” Liu Qingfeng said.
building an industrial ecosystem
When artificial intelligence technology moves towards the field of people’s livelihood and faces major social propositions including education and medical treatment, it is necessary to build systematic innovation.
“Because single point tools and applications can no longer meet the needs, nor can they really solve the rigid needs of major society.” Liu Qingfeng pointed out, “through systematic innovation, we can solve major social propositions. Education, medical care, pension and smart city all need systematic innovation, which can be connected at the bottom through a number of key technologies, and form the linkage of technology, products and service management resources.”
Liu Qingfeng believes that in order to enable AI to continuously empower social propositions such as education and medical treatment, we first need to be based on social needs and create social value. Secondly, we should act in accordance with scientific laws and lead the future through innovation. At the same time, we also need to base ourselves on Ecological prosperity and promote social progress. “Only ecological prosperity will determine the global competition pattern of artificial intelligence industry in the future.”
The same principle also applies to the development of digital economy industry. Liu Qingfeng told reporters that “new infrastructure” is an important fulcrum to leverage the digital economy. The development of “new infrastructure” is not only an effective measure to deal with the impact of the epidemic and achieve steady growth, but also an inevitable choice to expand emerging industries and promote high-quality development.
“To develop the digital economy, we cannot do without the leadership and drive of leading enterprises. We should open our capabilities to all entrepreneurs and form a booming ecosystem.” Liu Qingfeng believes that “the digital transformation of economy and society has brought new opportunities for the development of artificial intelligence industry. The ecological strength of artificial intelligence and digital transformation determines the core competitiveness of regional industry for long-term development.”
