The newly published book "digital technology: the innovation engine of the fourth industrial revolution" is an important achievement of the cooperation between the scientific and technological strategy consulting researcher of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and China's leading digital technology enterprises such as Tencent and Huawei. It analyzes and judges the current development trend of digital technology and digital economy, and dissects the specific situation of the deep integration of China's digital technology and industry, As the innovation engine of the fourth industrial revolution, digital technology will continue to develop the digitization ability through subversive innovation in the fields of network, artificial intelligence and quantum information in the future, further accelerate the transformation and empowerment of traditional industries, and accelerate the digitization of traditional industries by building a "data information knowledge" closed loop compatible with traditional industries, Make big data continuously enter the value creation system of economy and society.
The book is divided into five chapters. The "overall chapter" is mainly devoted to the development background of digital science and technology, the characteristics of digital science and technology innovation in major economies in China, and puts forward relevant policy suggestions on the current situation of digital science and technology innovation in China. "Innovation" mainly expounds from the perspectives of scientific and technological paradigm innovation, scientific and technological organization innovation, model innovation and resource platform innovation. For example, the scientific and technological organization innovation of digital technology is greatly different from the past. The scientific research paradigm is transformed into data-driven, and the leading role of individual scientists is reduced. Scientists\' cooperation and man-machine cooperation make the role of data processing technology and intelligent computer more fully play, and its significance becomes more prominent. The author points out that under the scientific research paradigm dominated by subject knowledge system in the past, scientific research started from putting forward assumptions, data is only one of the basic record forms of scientific research, while the basic logic of data intensive scientific research has fundamentally changed, and the combination of big data and artificial intelligence will produce new knowledge - which requires scientific research organizations, Including national and local scientific research organizations at all levels, we should change from bureaucratic organizations to network organizations, and change the organizational paradigm of personnel management and scientific research management.
When talking about the governance of artificial intelligence, the author puts forward that this kind of scientific research, which is both cutting-edge and fast applied to life, should follow three principles: bold exploration, timely evaluation and prudent promotion. Bold exploration means that in the stage of basic scientific research, we should encourage free exploration, actively make corresponding knowledge reserves, and encourage entering the "no man's land", but at the same time, we should also carry out relevant technical ethics education. Timely evaluation refers to discussing the prospects of social and commercial applications of new technologies on the premise of clarifying their social governance and human ethical risks. Prudent promotion is to fully estimate the possible harm of new technologies and the application inconvenience caused by some or a few people.
(source: Shenzhen business daily)
