Gaps in Understanding of AI

Abstract

The year 2016 was a special year for artificial intelligence. At the beginning of the year, AlphaGo triumphed over Lee Sedol, a 9-dan rank player, and brought artificial intelligence technology, which has once again risen in the past decade, to the stage and into the public view. In the past few years, technology giants have successively established artificial intelligence laboratories, invested more and more resources to capture the artificial intelligence market, and even completely transformed into artificial intelligence–driven companies, to intensively plan for the future of artificial intelligence. The Chinese government and other countries’ governments all regard artificial intelligence as a strategic force driving the future, and are introducing strategic development plans and promoting overall progress from the national level to prepare for the artificial intelligence society that is about to arrive. This revolution will not be contained to laboratory research. At the same time, academic research and commercialization are promoting the conversion of artificial intelligence into products and services, so that the public can truly feel its existence. Especially in areas such as image and speech recognition, natural language processing, and other applications based on deep learning algorithms, they are rapidly becoming industrialized, and the racetrack has already been laid out.