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Beijing National Convention Center.

The conference began with a speech from the leader.

An hour later, the conference officially began.

Speaking of which, the Global Artificial Intelligence Leaders Summit was originally planned to be held later in this conference.

However, because Wang Donglai raised a different opinion, the summit was moved to the first session.

Anyone who wants to participate is welcome to come.

Many people believe that the core of this conference lies in this summit.

Just by looking at the full name of the summit, you can tell.

Global Artificial Intelligence Leaders Summit.

The attendees included three AI "godfathers"—Yann LeCun, Michael Jordan, and Li Kaifu—as well as rising AI talents like Wang Donglai, and numerous business tycoons such as Musk and Jack Ma. The event was incredibly prestigious.

The event opened with a discussion on the same stage by three "godfathers" of artificial intelligence: Yann LeCun, Michael Jordan, and Kai-Fu Lee.

Yann LeCun is known in the industry as the 'father of convolutional neural networks' and is one of the three giants of deep learning. He is currently the chief AI scientist on Facebook's artificial intelligence team and a professor at New York University.

Interestingly, he even gave himself a Chinese name, Yang Likun.

As for Michael Jordan, many people will think of a famous basketball star when they see this name.

But these are two completely different people. This Michael Jordan is not the same as that Michael Jordan. As a leading academic figure in the field of artificial intelligence, he currently teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, and is a member of the American Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is widely recognized as one of the pioneers in the field of machine learning.

As for Li Kaifu, he is the chairman and CEO of Innovation Works in China. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a doctorate in computer science and conducted research on voice AI at international giants such as Apple, Google, and Microsoft in his early years.

After returning to China, he became one of the earliest investors to enthusiastically embrace artificial intelligence, thus earning him the title of one of the "three godfathers" of artificial intelligence in the industry.

It can be said that all three are senior experts and practitioners in this field.

Yang Likun was the first to take the stage and deliver the keynote speech for the conference.

He starts by sharing valuable insights.

"Currently, Facebook's deep neural network can recognize more than 200 different categories of objects and can dynamically track human behavior in multi-person scenarios..."

"The next step is to combine deep learning and inference, and build memory networks through memory modules, which can multiply the current neural networks."

"The core of AI lies in prediction. With the help of large databases and specific algorithms, it can do many things that are impossible for humans, such as predicting the weather. This is achieved by using machine algorithms to calculate data and arrive at a judgment..."

"Reinforcement learning performs well in games, but because it requires a lot of experimentation to complete a task and more than a hundred hours of learning, it is not very practical in real life..."

"I believe the next revolution in AI lies in unsupervised learning and common-sense learning. If breakthroughs can be achieved in these two areas, I believe the overall level of AI will be greatly improved..."

"..."

Yang Likun was speaking on stage, and everyone sitting below the stage was listening attentively.

Although a lot of technical terms were added during the presentation, those who appeared here are all quite capable.

Even Jack Ma had previously undergone intensive training in artificial intelligence technology.

After Yang Likun finished his speech, the conference hall erupted in enthusiastic applause.

Amid applause, Li Kaifu stepped onto the stage.

"Professor Yang's excellent lecture set a high bar for me. After listening to him, I was a little worried about what to say."

"After thinking about it, I decided to talk about the penetration of technologies such as deep learning into various fields, especially machine vision, from an academic perspective over the past five years."

"In my opinion, if we analyze it from the perspective of application convergence, the application of AI can be summarized into four waves."

"The first wave is the AI ​​wave of the Internet. Every time you click on Taobao, like a post on WeChat Moments, or post a short video, this data will be collected and used by internet giants to understand users more deeply and provide better services and monetization."

At this point, the camera followed Li Kaifu's gaze and focused on Jack Ma and others in the audience.

"Every internet giant is actually a potential AI giant because they have the most data. Every user is like a guinea pig, painstakingly labeling the data. Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are the same."

"The second wave is the AI-driven transformation of existing industry data. For example, banks can use user data to improve loan repayment rates and make more effective investments."

"Hospitals, schools, investment institutions, and insurance companies—any company with data can commercialize it through AI. This is what many current AI companies are doing: providing AI services to B-end clients around various industries."

"The third wave is the AI-driven wave of emerging voice and visual data."

"These data are new and were collected through sensors based on vision, hearing, etc., and then turned into new applications, such as smart speakers with voice interaction and the application of cameras in various fields."

"The fourth wave is autonomous and automated AI. In this regard, just like what we see in science fiction movies, stores will become unmanned stores, cars will become driverless cars, logistics will be automated and unmanned, and factories will also be unmanned and dark factories. At that time, automation will become the mainstream of the whole society, and everything will be unmanned."

"Regarding the fourth wave, it has already been shown. As far as I know, there are more than 300 driverless vehicles on the road in Tangdu City's pilot project for driverless technology."

"More importantly, we have three opportunities to catch up with the Bald Eagle Federation in these four areas."

"In the first wave, we were evenly matched, but we had an advantage in data, so we had the opportunity to catch up."

Just as Li Kaifu was enthusiastically sharing his views and ideas...

Michael Jordan somehow got hold of the microphone and interrupted Li Kaifu.

“Li, I think you’re too optimistic. We can’t exaggerate the current state of AI. Don’t overemphasize intelligence. Current intelligence is just individual intelligence, and it’s far from the intelligence of the entire system that we need.”

"The unmanned stores, unmanned vehicles, and unmanned logistics you just mentioned do not represent the advancement of technology in my opinion. These fields are not just about having no people, but about achieving connectivity. What we need is to build the entire system, not just the intelligence of the topics themselves."

"In terms of the industrial application of AI, current AI is indeed not intelligent enough. For example, if you ask AI which restaurant is good, it will recommend a restaurant to you, which you will think is great. But what if the system recommends this restaurant to everyone who asks this question? Then the restaurant will be overcrowded. Where is the value of AI then?"

"Through a corresponding system, we can ensure that each venue has a good occupancy rate. For example, if a competitor sees that the other venue is already full, they may be able to attract tourists by offering higher discounts, thereby reducing the waiting time for the other venue's customers and increasing their own occupancy rate."

"Current AI has significant limitations and struggles to achieve this."

"Data is not being fully considered by AI, resulting in waste. If a complete system architecture can be built, then this data can be used to its maximum value."

Li Kaifu's previously enthusiastic expression immediately turned silent, and his displeasure was visibly apparent. Before Li Kaifu could even retort, Michael Jordan had barely finished speaking when Yang Likun chimed in, saying, "I think Michael makes a lot of sense. Building a comprehensive system architecture is crucial for greater intelligence. Through Facebook's AI practices, I've realized that we still lack the fundamental principles behind intelligence."

"For AI to become intelligent, machines need to acquire more common sense in order to become as intelligent as humans and animals. I believe that through unsupervised learning and self-supervised learning, machines can learn enough background knowledge from the environment and thus gain the ability to make predictions."

"Relying solely on supervised learning, which only provides the machine with a small amount of data in each experiment, results in limited training and cannot generate true intelligence."

As Yang Likun spoke, Li Kaifu's expression turned completely ugly.

Both of them denied their own statements, which, in this context, undoubtedly meant that they were denying themselves.

Li Kaifu was also very clear that although he had been placed in this position...

But his actual skill level is far inferior to that of Michael Jordan and Yang Likun.

I've been detached from technology for a long time; I'm more like a businessman than a researcher.

I wanted to refute it, but I didn't have much confidence, and I was worried about exposing more of my shortcomings.

After much deliberation, Li Kaifu had no choice but to swallow his anger.

Fortunately, yesterday, his Innovation Works successfully raised oversubscription for its fourth US dollar venture capital fund, securing 500 million yuan.

If it had been delayed for another two days, things probably wouldn't have gone so smoothly.

Thinking about it this way, I actually felt a sense of relief.

The conference is still ongoing.

Of course, there can't be only one process.

However, the following process was rather boring.

Although each person who took the stage talked about the relationship between their own business and AI, everyone could tell that they were actually advertising and promoting their own companies.

It was lunchtime.

Jack Ma found Wang Donglai.

"Do you have any thoughts on the afternoon's meeting? We're both Chinese, after all, and we can't let an outsider gain the upper hand."

Upon hearing what Jack Ma said, Wang Donglai took a closer look at Jack Ma.

Knowing that this was because of Li Kaifu's experience, Jack Ma was a little worried, so he came over specifically to tell him this.

With that in mind, Wang Donglai said, "If Mr. Ma is worried, he might as well give up this symposium."

"The purpose of the symposium is for everyone to speak their minds and communicate with each other."

"If you make any preparations in advance, what's the point?"

Wang Donglai didn't give Jack Ma any face and refused outright.

Jack Ma was somewhat embarrassed, so he tried to save face by saying, "Actually, I meant well. As far as I know, many of Masla's businesses conflict with your company's business."

"Just like Tesla, the new energy vehicle brand of Tesla, it is preparing to build a Gigafactory in Shanghai this year and will start production by the end of the year. This shows the level of support that Shanghai has for Tesla."

"Not to mention that this Masla also has another company under him, SPACEX, just like your company's Galaxy Aerospace."

"I heard that this person was not originally a guest of this conference, but after news spread that you would be attending, this Masla contacted people back home to participate in the conference."

"In my opinion, there's a high chance they came here for you."

As Jack Ma spoke, he kept an eye on Wang Donglai's changing expressions.

As a well-known businessman in the Bald Eagle Federation, Masla has an international reputation.

Honestly, if Jack Ma were in Wang Donglai's shoes, he would feel a bit nervous upon hearing this news.

However, he did not see any similar expression on Wang Donglai's face at this moment.

Wang Donglai remained remarkably calm.

“That’s perfect. Many of GalaxySpace’s concepts were inspired by Masla.”

"Having an in-depth exchange is something I've always wanted to do, but I haven't had the right opportunity until now."

"I just happened to run into it this time, which fulfilled my wish."

"I have high expectations for this exchange and hope to gain something from it."

Upon hearing Wang Donglai's answer, Jack Ma's face stiffened.

He hadn't expected Wang Donglai to react this way at all, but after a moment's thought, he said, "Isn't Mr. Wang worried that some uncontrollable situations might arise during the exchange later?"

"You should know that you are competitors. Overseas, many people question GalaxySpace, believing that GalaxySpace is imitating SpaceX."

A confident smile appeared on Wang Donglai's face as he said, "It is undeniable that some of our ideas came from SpaceX, but technically, we have complete patent rights and there is no infringement whatsoever."

"I don't think this constitutes infringement of business philosophy and model. If it does, I think most of the internet companies in China would have gone bankrupt."

Jack Ma kept stirring things up, and Wang Donglai was somewhat annoyed, so he expressed it directly.

Jack Ma naturally understood, and after a brief chat, he took his leave.

Time flew by, and it was already afternoon.

The opening scene featured a discussion between Masla, Jack Ma, and Wang Donglai.

One is a rising star in the business world of the Bald Eagle Federation, the other is the founder of China's largest e-commerce platform, and the third is a world-class mathematician and the founder of the company with the highest market value among unlisted companies in China.

The sight of these three people sitting together discussing high-tech topics like AI naturally attracted the attention of countless people.

As a result, the conference hall was packed. (End of Chapter)