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Zhiwu July 5th news, today, Baidu AI Developers Conference was held in Beijing, more than 4,000 people participated in this developer conference, this is Baidu's highest-profile artificial intelligence conference ever. In the morning speech, Baidu founder Li Yanhong, president and COO Lu Qi, general manager of the secret business department Jing Hao, and Intel vice president Amir Khosrowshahi gave speeches. There will also be six sub-forums in the afternoon, with topics such as AI technology and platform, autopilot, voice interaction, big data, cloud computing, and web ecology.

In a speech just concluded this morning, Baidu announced several new developments in the DuerOS voice interactive platform, Apollo autopilot platform, and Baidu brain + smart cloud. These include: a wholly-owned acquisition of the Seattle startup KITT AI, the creation of the DuerOS wake-up word training, and the DuerOS software/hardware developer kit and all-in-one solution; the announcement of the opening of the Apollo Autopilot Platform 1.0 and the introduction of the 50 Apollo Ecology Initial partners; Finally, Baidu Brain + Smart Cloud and Nvidia, Intel's deep cooperation, and AI Star Developer Support Program, the 13th Baidu Star Contest, and the launch of DuerOS Fund and Apollo Fund to promote the development of ecological chain .

As a special media, Zhizhi personally came to the scene to bring you the most complete full-scale record and highlights. At the end of the article, there is also a PPT download~

First, Lu Qi opening: All in AI

The morning speech started with Baidu President and COO Lu Qi. A light blue Polo shirt + dark blue jeans Lu Qi still looks very thin.

He first introduced the understanding of AI. The essence of this artificial intelligence revolution is the revolution of knowledge, the ability to quickly acquire knowledge; AI is also a new generation of computing platform, through the chip + sensor + intelligent cloud to the medical, education, finance, home, etc., will be for each The industry brings huge opportunities. In addition, AI is still a historic opportunity in China, talent pool, technology accumulation, capital, market, and policy.

From Baidu, Lu Qi once again stressed that "Baidu is an AI company", we want "All in AI", Baidu in technology, talent (2000 + AI R & D personnel), data (tera billion search data + 10 billion Level search data) has a deep accumulation.

DuerOS and self-driving cars are the two AI points that Lu Qi specifically pointed out, and other businesses have been put into the "wait". Baidu's AI ecological strategy is also composed of the DuerOS+apollo platform on the side, the Baidu brain in the middle layer, and the intelligent cloud in the final cloud.

Second, DuerOS platform: give the device the ability to interact with voice

The second person to attend the stage is Jing Hao, general manager of the Department of Secrets, who introduced the DuerOS platform.

The core concept of DuerOS is "to wake up everything": let the device understand the user's speech and understand the user's needs.

According to Jing Hao, every change in human-computer interaction is driving the transformation of the times, from the PC era of the mouse and keyboard to the mobile era of touch screen, and nowadays to the AI ​​era of voice dialogue. Therefore, he positioned DuerOS as an Android system in the era of artificial intelligence.

At present, foreign markets have entered a fierce competition in this regard, and giants such as Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft are all making efforts. The penetration rate of intelligent voice in the domestic market is also increasing dramatically.

The three basic elements that awaken everything are: listening, understanding, and satisfying—can be understood as speech recognition, semantic understanding, and response.

1) Hearing: At present, near-field speech recognition technology has developed well. In addition to near-field speech recognition, Baidu is also developing technologies related to far-field speech: such as microphone array, echo cancellation, beamforming, etc.

2) Understand: From the perspective of semantic understanding, data + calculation is the two foundations.

First of all, data is the basis of semantic understanding, and the amount of data that Baidu has accumulated over the years is naturally unnecessary. Secondly, deep learning, enhanced learning, natural language processing, multi-round dialogue, search technology, etc. are all related technologies of Baidu's continuous understanding of semantics.

Then, Jing Hao threw out the first important news about DuerOS - the wholly-owned acquisition of the Seattle venture KITT AI, a company that also received Alexa (Amazon), AI2 (Microsoft) investment, the name of Snowboy The platform can quickly train wake-up words, and has accumulated 12,000 developer users to create the largest wake-up community in the United States. It has also become a third-party application recommended by Alexa.

The wake-up words are well understood, like "Hey Siri", "叮咚叮咚", etc., can be understood as the "switch" of voice interaction. At the meeting, KITT AI co-founder and CTO Chen Guoguo also showed how to use the Snowboy platform to quickly train wake-up words. First create a new wake-up word, then read the wake-up word three times, and finally test it again. The wake-up word is trained. From then on, your device has a customizable wake-up word for yourself.

The second news about DuerOS is that it provides a software/hardware developer suite that allows users to set up their own conversational devices: Personal Edition (Raspberry Pi, Conexant) + Lightweight Edition (only about 1 yuan in size, RDA, Realtek) + Standard Edition (MTK, Quanzhi, Intel, Qualcomm, etc.) + reference design (open circuit board design, microphone array design, etc.), you can apply for the official website today.

In addition to the developer kit, DuerOS has also introduced a simple solution that requires only a few lines of code change, and in a matter of minutes, a device that was originally equipped with Alexa can be transformed into a device compatible with DuerOS. Engineers also demonstrated this feature on site.

At the end of the day, Jing Hao emphasized that the positioning of DuerOS is an open platform in the era of artificial intelligence. More individuals and enterprises are welcome to join the ecosystem of DuerOS, an open platform.

Third, Apollo Apollo automatic driving open platform

After introducing DuerOS, Lu Qi returned to the stage and introduced Baidu's second key project, the Apollo Apollo Autopilot Open Platform. It provides an open software platform for Baidu's partners in the automotive industry and autonomous driving to help them combine their vehicle and hardware systems to quickly build their own complete autonomous driving system.

It is worth mentioning that the Apollo platform was demonstrated by Li Yanhong himself in the field. He traveled on the Fifth Ring Road in Beijing with the self-driving vehicle built by Baidu and Bosch. Li Yanhong specifically mentioned that the driver did not touch the steering wheel.

Lu Qi said that after the announcement of the Apollo platform, manufacturers in the automotive industry have come to contact Baidu. The important reason is that Baidu started earlier on autonomous driving and has accumulated more than 4 years of technology.

In the cooperation model with partners, Lu Qi said that Baidu is providing Apollo's autonomous driving technology to its partners, while its partners provide valuable data to Baidu. The principle that the Apollo platform is open to the outside world is that the more data is contributed, the more rewards it receives.

Baidu's intention is that because AI's technology core is data + capabilities, Baidu uses the Apollo platform to integrate data from various autopilot R&D vendors, trains stronger capabilities, invests in more scenarios, and produces more. The data is invested in the next step of training to accelerate the innovation of autonomous driving in this cycle.

This model is similar to the development model of Google Android, Lu Qi is no longer afraid to compare Apollo to Android in the automotive industry.

In the specific technical composition, Apollo is a whole that contains software, hardware and services, and includes a four-layer technology platform.

Baidu divided Apollo into a service platform, a software platform, a reference hardware platform, and a reference vehicle platform.

The top-level service platform includes high-precision maps, simulation engines, data platforms, security services, OTA upgrades, and DuerOS. In this platform, Lu Qi focused on the high-precision map, which is a particularly important part of autonomous driving, which is the clairvoyance of autonomous driving. Security services are also indispensable, and cars without security will become weapons.

The simulation engine is the absolute focus of Lu Qi's introduction. With this tool, autopilot developers can train the ability to drive autonomous vehicles in a simulated environment without field test. In the demonstration, the simulated auto-driving vehicle has a “car accident” in the virtual environment, and the engineer can correct and retrain the behavior of the vehicle in the simulation engine.

The middle software layer is mainly a series of modules, four of which are more important, namely:

1) Self-positioning module: Using Baidu high-precision map, coupled with the sensor, let each car accurately locate at low cost and all weather.

2) Perception module: Perception is the focus of current autonomous driving industry innovation. Using top-notch artificial intelligence technology, each car can see and understand the road conditions, including every obstacle, pedestrian, vehicle.

3) Vehicle planning and operation: The Apollo model uses AI and big data to adopt the safest driving strategy for precise vehicle control and to adapt to traffic conditions in different countries.

4) Operational Framework: This is the cornerstone of Apollo. Its core is secure, reliable, real-time control, and can support both Intel and NVIDIA chips.

The lower-level hardware reference platform includes computing hardware (CPU\GPU\FPGA), GPS, IMU, camera and laser radar.

In the specific development plan, Lu Qi said that today officially opened Apollo 1.0, Baidu will open the automatic driving ability in a step-by-step, low to high, open data, open code.

By July of this year, Baidu developed the highlighted part of the picture. In fact, this part is open to the Apollo platform's automatic driving ability in closed scenes. In the future, there will be more icons in the picture. Baidu Apollo will have a major update two months later. It will open the fixed lane automatic driving. By the end of this year, Baidu Apollo will provide the automatic driving ability of simple urban roads. . In 2018, the opening of specific areas will be told to auto-drive the city roads, and by 2020, full auto-driving will be achieved.

In a video, Baidu showed the autopilot platform completed by Apollo developers in the United States based on Baidu's technology within three days—two cars were automatically driven in a specially set closed scene with no human intervention.

Baidu subsequently unveiled the current partner of the Apollo platform, and Lu Qi said that it has more than 50 partners covering the entire autonomous driving industry.

Among them are 15 automakers responsible for autonomous driving integration applications – 13 domestic manufacturers, 2 foreign OEMs and Ford and Daimler). Baidu also specially invited Yin Tongyue, the chairman of Chery Automobile, the earliest company to cooperate with it. Chery launched the unmanned vehicle test ride with Baidu at the Wuzhen Conference in May 2016. It also announced that it will cooperate with Baidu to build the unmanned vehicle industrial city in Wuhu where Chery headquarters is located.

In the more upstream industry chain, Baidu's partners include Tie1 such as Bosch and China, as well as computing vendors such as Intel and NVIDIA, and sensor hardware manufacturers such as velodyne, sagitar, and Hesai Technology.

Baidu's plan is to continue to expand this autonomous driving ecosystem through further technology openness for various mass developers. At present, the focus of the Apollo platform is still in China, and Lu Qi has released his words. "Apollo's goal is to let China's autonomous driving industry stand in the forefront of the world in the next three to five years."

But beyond that, Baidu Apollo will set up a subsidiary in Singapore and the United States to open its path to globalization.

From Lu Qisheng’s exhausted “work together” shouting and Li Yanhong’s personal demonstration, Baidu’s view on autopilot is particularly important. From the perspective of Android, the Apollo platform is aimed at Android in the standard voice interactive device. From this point of view, Baidu seems to be more like Google.

Fourth, Baidu brain + intelligent cloud ABC

Lu Qi was very busy today~ introduced the Apollo platform, and then began to introduce Baidu Brain + Smart Cloud, which is what Baidu often said about ABC (AI+Big Date+Cloud).

The architecture of Baidu Brain + Smart Cloud includes:

1) Artificial intelligence AI (platform layer, cognitive layer, sensing layer, algorithm layer): AI open platform, NLP, knowledge map, user portrait, VR/AR, image, video, machine learning, PaddlePaddle platform.

2) Big Data Big Data: big data analysis, data mining, etc.

3) Cloud Service Cloud: Underlying Architecture + Cloud Service

In addition to technology, Baidu Brain + Smart Cloud applications cover all aspects, from Baidu's internal business (search, network disk, know, map, iQiyi, etc.) to various industry solutions (smart customer service, smart sales, etc.), Eco-cooperative programs (financial brains, travel brains, etc.), as well as the application of various new scenarios (Nanyang Airport boarding, AI tracing, etc.) are covered.

Then, Lu Qi introduced an important partner - Baidu and Nvidia will begin in-depth cooperation, including several aspects:

1) Apollo and Nvidia jointly develop automatic driving, and NVIDIA provides reference hardware.

2) At the same time, NVIDIA established the PaddlePaddle optimization team;

3) Provide DuerOS optimization;

The second partner is Intel, and Lu Qi announced that Baidu will conduct comprehensive and in-depth technical cooperation with Intel. Amir Khosrowshahi, Intel's vice president and CTO of artificial intelligence products, also came to the site.

Amir said that Intel has been working closely with Baidu for more than 10 years, especially in recent years, the cooperation with AI is closer. Intel not only has chip processor technology, memory, storage, hardware, software technology, but also focuses on providing fast, efficient, low-cost AI solutions from end-to-end (from end-to-data center-to-end).

At present, Baidu and Intel have cooperated on 30+ different projects, involving Baidu brain, smart cloud, DuerOS and other different platforms. The cooperation with Baidu brain includes: the improvement of core algorithms, the improvement of software capabilities, and the measurement of DeepBench algorithm. Collaboration with Smart Cloud includes: data center creation, customized CPU, etc.; cooperation with DuerOS includes: hardware reference design.

Finally, Lu Qi announced three projects to assist the AI ​​ecosystem: these include:

1) “AI Star Developer Support Program” provides funds, training, market opportunities and policy support for AI developers. It plans to train 100,000 AI engineers within three years.

2) In the 13th Baidu Star Contest, the number of students participating in the Baidu Star Contest has exceeded 200,000. The theme of this year is Create for More. In addition to the traditional program contest, a developer contest will be added.

3) An agreement was reached with the Yangtze River Industry Fund Association to launch the DuerOS Fund and the Apollo Fund to promote the upstream and downstream development of the two ecosystems.

Fifth, open + make the world easier

In the end, Baidu founder Li Yanhong finally came to the scene. In the previous speech, the big screen showed two scenes of Li Yanhong driving in Apollo. One section is Li Yanhong's self-driving car driving on the Fifth Ring Road, and the other is that he is driving from the center of the conference center all the way to the entrance of the venue.

Li Yanhong appeared in a simple white shirt + dark casual trousers today. He just mentioned the intelligence conference in Tianjin last week. Li Yanhong said, "At the time, Ma Yun said that we should pay less attention to our opponents. I see today (Baidu AI Developers Conference). Everyone here is a partner, a developer, and none of them is a competitor."

After Li Yanhong played, the style of PPT changed abruptly, turning into a big white character on a black screen, or a magnificent starry sky map with a big white character instead of the block diagram of Lu Qi and Jing Yu.

Later, Li Yanhong began to talk about his own experience in New Jersey 20 years ago, about how to develop from the PC era to the development of the mobile Internet era: the PC era is an era where everything needs to be done, and the mobile Internet is becoming more and more The more closed, the more the core of today’s Li Yanhong’s speech – open.

Li Yanhong said that sharing and cooperation is the "treasure bowl" of this era. For example, Ford, Continental, Daimler, Intel, NVIDIA and other partners have joined the Apollo platform. Because we have joined an open platform, we don’t need to “reinvent the wheel” like the predecessors. Now the AI ​​technology is invented. Come out and share it and you will benefit everyone.

Another core theme is that technology makes complex things easier. The current technology has been leaps and bounds in the past, taking the noise interference in speech recognition as an example. In the past, a little noise was not recognized, and now the computer's speech recognition ability can even surpass humans.

But the development of technology does not seem to make our lives more versatile, boarding, driving licenses, remote control design, new electronic products, etc., the way we interact in our lives is becoming more and more complicated. Li Yanhong said that image recognition (Nanyang Airport face boarding) and voice interaction (DuerOS platform) are to liberate people from this complex interaction, and make life easier with AI.

Conclusion, full force betting artificial intelligence

Baidu’s turmoil in recent years is obvious to all. After missing social, missing O2O, and missing mobile payments, Baidu in 2016 has been worsened by a number of reputation events. Now it’s introducing the second-hand Lu Qi, who is fully betting on artificial intelligence and rectifying drastically. Structure and intelligence are also tracked through a series of in-depth articles.

Today, "Baidu is an artificial intelligence company" has become the slogan of Lu Qi and Baidu. DuerOS and Apollo autopilot are the two core landing platforms of Baidu AI. In addition, Baidu Hai plans to hold AI developer conferences every summer from this year. "All in AI" has become Baidu's core strategy, and it is also a "killer" that Baidu is now betting on.

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