On October 23, at the 2020 HKUST iFLYTEK Global Developers Conference, Liu Qingfeng, Chairman of HKUST iFLYTEK, elaborated on his thoughts on the development of artificial intelligence and put forward four major opportunities for future AI development.

He first stated that in the past 10 years, we have allowed machines to speak. For the first time, speech synthesis has surpassed human levels. Not only Chinese but also English has surpassed human speech levels for the first time; we have allowed the machine’s speech recognition and transcription accuracy to exceed human levels; we Let the machine extend from being able to listen and speak to being able to understand and think. "I think it is precisely this process of ascent and climbing that has enabled us to see a farther and larger future." Liu Qingfeng said.

In addition, he also summarized the four major opportunities for the future development of artificial intelligence for the first time:

1. Scene-driven. China's unique advantages in the application of artificial intelligence scenarios, as well as the urgent needs of people's livelihood fields such as education and medical care, which need to make up for their shortcomings, will drive the development of China's new infrastructure, which provides unprecedented opportunities for the development of China's artificial intelligence.

2. Data support. The epidemic has brought more people into the era of digital survival. For example, teachers who were not accustomed to teaching interactively on the Internet started teaching online. More and more data is entering the background, and the government is also managing the use of data. Data-driven will make the next development of artificial intelligence face more rare opportunities, because many areas of artificial intelligence still need data to feed.

3. Technology driven. We have always emphasized that artificial intelligence is a strong technological capability, which must be driven by technology. We must be more rigorous, pay more attention to our source core technological innovation capabilities, and respect the basic laws of technological development.

4. Capital boost. Many companies that are technologically unique can obtain a large amount of financial support through the capital market, which can enable companies that start their own technology to look into the future and make a longer-term layout.

Liu Qingfeng also emphasized that only ecology can survive. Especially in today's context, the success of an enterprise is by no means an empire alone. An empire is destined to decline. Only if we are willing to take ourselves as the core, open up our own resources and capabilities, form an industrial chain, and form an ecological system, can we continue to develop.

Source: NetEase Technology Report, translated by Google Translate