Shanghai aims to become AI hub
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THE World Artificial Intelligence Conference opened in Shanghai yesterday with the theme of “Intelligent Connectivity, Indivisible Community” with speakers and industry experts sharing their insights on the latest developments in AI.
Cloud conferences were introduced at this year’s WAIC, with holographic projections being applied for the first time at a conference of such a large scale, its organizers said. The whole event will be broadcast live through the Internet.
Shanghai Party Secretary Li Qiang told the opening ceremony that the city aims to become a strategic hub for exchange of ideas and innovative AI applications between home and foreign markets. It also aims to build an open collaborative platform to improve urban management and make the city smarter and safer.
Shanghai will fully leverage AI to enhance urban management, and adopt a more open stance for AI to be adopted in a wide range of areas such as transport, housing, education, health care, elderly care, cultural and sports, Li said.
“AI came into being to improve civilization and enhance collaboration, and nowadays connectivity is of crucial importance. It has helped people to sustain their daily routines and also helped business recovery,” he said.
“Countries around the world also share their virus-fighting experience through smart connectivity infrastructure and this improves our friendship and also helps boost confidence for favorable development in the future,” he added.
At the same time it will also focus on the ethics of AI development, to prevent potential security breaches to make sure such capability is in the right hands to better serve society.
The conference aims to build a platform for all parties to come together and discuss AI governance topics and major development initiatives and milestones of smart networks.
“Shanghai will keep its opening-up stance to connect global resources and bring cutting-edge solutions to the city,” Li said.
The world’s first AI idol musical score MV “Intelligent Community” was unveiled at the opening ceremony yesterday. It was composed and performed by Baidu’s DuerOS, Xiaomi’s MI AI, Microsoft’s Xiaoice and Yousa, member of VirtuaReal Star, a Bilibili virtual artist group.
Global business leaders, participants and top thinkers shared AI’s prospects, their future roles and how they could better serve society.
“I believe the most exciting prospects for AI in health care are here in China and we are constantly looking for the best partners to bridge critical gaps in health care and to pursue new ways of making health care more efficient, more accessible and more cost-effective,” said AstraZeneca global CEO Pascal Soriot.
China is already the UK-based company’s second-largest market. It set up the Healthcare Internet of Things Innovation Center in 2017 in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province.
Sam Li, SAP global executive vice president and managing director of SAP China, expected AI to bring US$15.7 trillion worth of GDP growth in the next decade with around half of that from China.
This would come from automated manufacturing processes and smart robot-aided areas.
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