Duan Jiang, deputy of Sichuan Provincial People’s Congress： Grab the application of generative artificial intelligence and land on the track to drive the innovation and upgrading of digital economy.
The work report of Sichuan provincial government in 2024 proposed that Sichuan will build an innovative highland in the western region and better serve the country’s high-level science and technology for self-reliance."As a science and technology worker, I am very encouraged by the scientific and technological innovation mentioned in the government work report." During the two sessions of Sichuan Province, Duan Jiang, deputy of Sichuan Provincial People’s Congress, director of China Blockchain Research Center of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics and general manager of Chengdu Hengtu Technology Co., Ltd., said in an interview.
Duan Jiang, who is deeply involved in the front line of scientific and technological innovation, always pays attention to the latest trends in the field of scientific and technological innovation. In his view, generative artificial intelligence is one of the most concerned directions in the field of science and technology. Generative artificial intelligence is a digital technology that independently creates new content based on computing power, data, models, etc. It has a huge potential for scientific and technological innovation in infrastructure, models, applications and other fields. "If we can seize this development opportunity to boost the development of artificial intelligence, it will drive the innovation and upgrading of digital economy in Sichuan Province and help Sichuan Province build a new highland for science and technology."
▲ Duan Jiang
Generative artificial intelligence has a broad market.
Sichuan has conditions, foundation and potential.
At present, generative artificial intelligence has achieved great development and application in manufacturing, retail, internet, medical and health industries, with broad market prospects and huge scale.
Duan Jiang said that with the explosion of ChatGPT, generative artificial intelligence has become the strongest industry outlet, constantly empowering thousands of industries to innovate and develop. "Generative artificial intelligence is promoting the leap of artificial intelligence from the field of perceptual understanding to the field of independent creation. This process will surely lead to a wide range of new forms of digital technology applications, empower the transformation of digital productivity, and drive the innovation and development of digital economy."
In Duan Jiang’s view, Sichuan and Chengdu have good conditions for developing generative artificial intelligence.
In recent years, Chengdu has made great efforts to build an innovative city, not only in the construction of national strategic scientific and technological strength and the creation of a scientific and technological innovation center with national influence, but also in industrial technological innovation, striving to create a "dream city" for innovative entrepreneurs. “Chengdu is a city of entrepreneurship, innovation and technology. At the same time, Chengdu is rich in human resources.At present, most of the employees of our company are from Chengdu, and the team has been successfully evaluated as the top innovation team in Sichuan and Chengdu by the provincial and municipal organization departments. "
Duan Jiang said that Fotor, a generative artificial intelligence product developed by the company team, is an AI-based image and graphics processing application. According to the data of international authoritative organizations, among more than 5,000 AI applications in all industries around the world, Fotor ranks among the top 25 in the world according to the number of users. In the same period, other well-known applications such as ChatGPT, Google Bard and Baidu ERNIE Bot were listed, while Fotor ranked the highest among all domestic AI products.
"This is a’ Made in Chengdu’ application, which also shows that Chengdu, Sichuan has the conditions, foundation and potential to do a good job in artificial intelligence applications." Duan Jiang said, "If we can seize this development opportunity to promote the development of generative artificial intelligence, it will drive the innovation and upgrading of digital economy in Sichuan Province and help Sichuan Province build a new highland for science and technology."
It is suggested to seize the application market of generative artificial intelligence scenarios.
Creating Super Applications in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence
Now, where are the opportunities to develop generative artificial intelligence? In Duan Jiang’s view, application is the key to solving the problem.
Duan Jiang told reporters that last year was recognized as the first year of generative artificial intelligence in the industry, and everyone’s research direction was mainly concentrated in the field of large models. On this track, some artificial intelligence companies seized certain opportunities. However, the application of generative artificial intelligence is still at the same starting line in the world. "After the big model is made, it is necessary to transform scientific and technological achievements and make it an application before it can be transformed into economic value." Duan Jiang stressed, "Now, who can make applications, even super applications, is a track worthy of attention."
In this regard, Duan Jiang made suggestions.Seize the golden development period of generative artificial intelligence and help Sichuan Province build a new highland of science and technology industry..
In the application market of generative artificial intelligence scenarios, Duan Jiang suggested that Sichuan should introduce policies to actively open application scenarios, cultivate and attract AI application projects and enterprises inside and outside the province, and create "Didi" and "Tik Tok" super applications in the era of generative artificial intelligence to help Sichuan’s artificial intelligence industry become bigger and stronger.
Computational power is also the key. Duan Jiang said that many cities, especially large cities, have built supercomputing centers, but the hardware has been built and the software ecological support is not complete enough. "Therefore, it is suggested that Sichuan establish a higher-performance artificial intelligence intelligent computing center, take the construction of intelligent computing facilities as an opportunity, vigorously introduce computing chip enterprises to meet the computing demand, and at the same time expand the scale of the chip industry. In view of the lack of artificial intelligence application layer ecology in Sichuan Intelligent Computing Center, it is suggested to upgrade the chip ecology of Intelligent Computing Center to better serve the development of generative artificial intelligence in Sichuan Province. "
In addition, in order to promote the transformation of scientific and technological innovation achievements, Duan Jiang suggested supporting the integration and development of generative artificial intelligence research and practice. "Generative artificial intelligence has extremely high requirements for the combination of scientific theory and engineering practice. Sichuan Province should strengthen the integration and innovation of generative artificial intelligence research and engineering practice, vigorously support universities and enterprises to carry out technological theory innovation and the application of scientific and technological achievements, and jointly empower the development of related industries."
Duan Jiang noticed that many software companies in Chengdu are actively going overseas. "With the improvement of the strength of countries, cities and enterprises, it is the general trend to go to a broader market." Duan Jiang said that compared with the globalization of the industrial era, the era of artificial intelligence can get rid of the shackles of hardware to carry out the globalization of the digital economy and more effectively contact the global market. "And network barriers have blocked the pace of globalization of artificial intelligence enterprises. It is suggested to open network special zones and network letter support to help enterprises’ international networking’ and develop in compliance and effectively."
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