How to Effectively Utilize AI Technology in the Era of AI

Input a few keywords, and AI can automatically generate a work summary or a presentation PPT; during the “618” shopping festival, “AI anchors” broadcast live sales 24 hours a day; cities like Wuhan have launched “Roborun”, allowing citizens to experience the “black technology” of self-driving ride-hailing services…

Unknowingly, AI has become a hot topic of conversation and is increasingly integrated into our work and life. The era of AI is quietly approaching.

However, in the face of the rapid advancement of AI technology, risks and hidden dangers have also sharply increased. This year, the Central Radio and Television Station’s “3·15” gala exposed the use of “AI face swapping” for scams, leaving people exclaiming that it is “impossible to guard against”; some have used AI technology to “revive” deceased celebrities, drawing opposition from their families… Suddenly, AI technology is under scrutiny.

So, how should we view AI technology?

What is AI? Simply put, AI refers to enabling machines to “think” and “learn” like humans, capable of processing various information such as language, audio, images, and video, and intelligently learning and inferring from it.

In fact, AI is not a single technology but a deep integration of various technologies, including deep learning, machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and many other technologies and algorithms. These technologies intersect with advanced disciplines, leading to revolutionary changes.

“AI face swapping”. Image source: Jiangsu Broadcasting Corporation · Converged Media News Center

Thus, AIGC (Generative Artificial Intelligence), represented by ChatGPT, has quickly led this wave of AI. Companies like Baidu, Alibaba, and iFlytek have released large models such as Wenxin Yiyan, Tongyi Qianwen, and iFlytek Spark, striving to seize the high ground of AI technology.

Each of the eight immortals shows their own skills.

With the support of AI technology, applications such as intelligent voice, visual recognition, drones, self-driving cars, humanoid robots, and smart wearable devices are emerging one after another, changing people’s production and lifestyle. At the same time, AI is combining with various industries, leading to innovations in business models.

Some experts believe that unlike previous industrial revolutions, AI technology accelerates knowledge discovery and communication between people. In short, AI is a revolutionary productivity tool. AI is a strategic technology leading the future, the core driving force of a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, and is regarded as the main battleground for developing new quality productivity.

For this reason, our country attaches great importance to the development of artificial intelligence, actively promoting the deep integration of the internet, big data, artificial intelligence, and the real economy, cultivating and expanding the intelligent industry, and accelerating the development of new quality productivity to provide new momentum for high-quality development.

AI promotes a leap in productivity, widely applied in fields such as healthcare, finance, education, transportation, and manufacturing, bringing significant efficiency improvements while also seeing frequent negative news: ChatGPT has become a major energy consumer, using over 500,000 kilowatt-hours a day, equivalent to the electricity consumption of 17,000 American households; some AI systems have even learned to “lie”…

The other side of the “double-edged sword” has left “some happy and some worried”.

Take the “Roborun” self-driving ride-hailing service as an example. After being deployed in cities like Wuhan, it has raised concerns and dissatisfaction among some traditional taxi drivers. Some drivers reported a sharp drop in income, with their earnings being only half of what they were before, despite working the same hours. Additionally, issues such as traffic accidents involving self-driving vehicles and complaints about traffic jams have heightened public concerns.

Not only taxi drivers are affected; other professions have also been subtly changed.

For instance, designers, whose works take hours or even days to create, can now be completed by AI in seconds; compared to human anchors, AI anchors are much cheaper and can remain online continuously during idle times. JD.com has stated that the cost of digital human live streaming is only one-tenth that of real people…

Currently, AI technology is still in a period of rapid development, related technologies are not yet mature, and regulatory policies and laws are not perfect, providing opportunities for criminals.

Some criminals use AI “face swapping” and “voice simulation” technology to commit fraud, becoming a new type of scam. Due to the natural appearance and realistic voice of the disguised faces, victims often do not suspect anything and fail to notice the anomaly, thus falling victim to the scams.

Since the beginning of this year, stock market “little essays” have seen new tricks, causing headaches for regulators. Intelligent, sketch-style, one-click generation, hard to distinguish between true and false… With the help of AI technology, just by providing keywords and pressing the enter key, one can generate an article that seems rich in content but is actually fabricated.

AI technology is developing rapidly, and the complexity of information is increasing geometrically. How ordinary people distinguish between true and false to avoid being deceived, and how regulation can keep up, has become a new issue.

To harness the potential of AI technology, integrate it deeply with the real economy, improve production efficiency, and further perfect the regulatory policy and legal system related to AI, so that AI can better serve people’s better lives, is essential to effectively avoid the “side effects” of AI.

Technology is neither good nor bad; the key lies in how it is used.

In recent years, our country has vigorously developed the AI industry, with the scale of related core industries continuing to grow, and innovative achievements in smart chips, development frameworks, general large models, etc., continuously emerging, with computing power ranking second in the world. Statistics show that in 2023, the scale of China’s AI core industry reached 578.4 billion yuan, with a growth rate of 13.9%.

The market space for the AI industry is vast, and its development prospects are limitless, having become a strategically emerging industry vigorously developed in various regions.

Desay SV Automotive Intelligent Driving System. Image source: Huizhou Dongjiang Image Agency

Recently, the provincial party committee and provincial government issued “Opinions on Supporting Huizhou to Accelerate the Construction of a Green Low-Carbon Industrial System to Create New Growth Points for High-Quality Development in Guangdong”, emphasizing the cultivation and development of strategic emerging industries such as artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things.

With favorable policies for the AI industry continuously emerging, what new opportunities will AI bring to Huizhou? The author believes that as a typical representative of new quality productivity, AI will bring comprehensive opportunities to Huizhou, especially for the electronic information industry, one of Huizhou’s two pillar industries, which may be a rare opportunity for industrial transformation and upgrading.

For example, industry predictions suggest that Apple will launch AI phones. Domestic smartphone manufacturers predict that 2024 will be the first year of AI phones, and the impact of AI on the smartphone industry over the next five years could rival the replacement of feature phones by smart devices. This will bring new market orders to Huizhou’s advantageous electronic information industries such as 5G and smart terminals, allowing them to maintain advantages in research and manufacturing.

Moreover, with AI technology being integrated into vehicles, intelligent driving technology is continuously advancing, allowing leading automotive electronics companies in Huizhou, such as Desay SV and Huayang Group, to achieve a leapfrog advancement in smart cockpits, intelligent driving, and connected services.

In fact, the application of AI technology in Huizhou’s industries is not uncommon, and many companies have reaped the “sweetness” of AI technology.

Leading automotive electronics companies like Desay SV and Huayang Group are applying AI technology in intelligent driving, accelerating the intelligent transformation of new energy vehicles; TCL is using AI technology to detect screen defects, continuously improving production efficiency and product quality; Desay Battery has built an advanced battery health assessment model, which, supported by AI big data models, allows for early detection of anomalies far ahead of existing monitoring technologies, serving as an early warning…

For Huizhou, with a solid foundation in the electronic information industry, seizing AI opportunities and developing the AI industry is a natural fit. It is essential to actively seize the new opportunities brought by AI technology, develop the AI industry, study the construction of industrial chains and systems, better promote AI technology progress and industrial development, and accelerate the development of new quality productivity. At the same time, focusing on core technologies, smart terminals, and application empowerment, we should concentrate on key areas such as large models, computing power, humanoid robots, and autonomous driving, and accelerate the construction of an artificial intelligence innovation ecosystem.

Source: Huizhou Release

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