Two sessions - looking forward to artificial intelligence, China moment"

Source: People's daily
This year's government work report, in 2017 focused on the task mentioned, accelerate the artificial intelligence technology research and development and transformation, is one of the emerging industries need to foster growth.
Artificial intelligence is like a new scientific and technological revolution, to inject new vitality into the long-term downturn in the world economy. By last year, many key technologies, is the history of the development of artificial intelligence on the thick and heavy in colours of the year. Born more than half a century, it finally came to the critical point from the scientific and technological research and development to the industry, ready to take off. Many studies have shown that artificial intelligence on the traditional business model of the industry, the industry chain and the value chain of subversion, will be the global economy, social life in all aspects of the qualitative change.
Since the industrial revolution in eighteenth Century, every technological revolution has reshaped the global competitive landscape. China has missed the historic opportunity of the previous scientific and technological revolution, this time, artificial intelligence is China's strategic opportunities can not be missed. Completion of China's manufacturing industry, from sweat driven to innovation driven from the gear drive to intelligent upgrade, artificial intelligence is one of the strategic opportunities for China to achieve transformation and upgrading. In fact, the global competition in artificial intelligence has begun, governments are in full swing layout industry applications. And in this competition does not count every minute and second, Chinese backward. From driverless cars to robot operations, from medical care to nanny, can see the figure of artificial intelligence.
Baidu, in recent years has done a lot of basic work. Recently, the state approved, Baidu led the preparation of the depth of learning technology and application of the National Engineering Laboratory officially inaugurated as the first National Engineering Laboratory in the field of artificial intelligence. This year the CPPCC meeting, I proposed to promote the application of artificial intelligence industry recommendations, for example, want to use artificial intelligence technology to optimize the visual traffic light design, ease traffic congestion; face recognition technology, especially the cross age recognition ability, assist the public security authorities to find the lost child, this technology is relatively mature.
Of course, there are many areas of artificial intelligence can be seen, there are many scenes. Artificial intelligence has the ability to help us solve some difficult problems in the industry development and social governance, to strengthen the industry application from the national level, the future prospects for the development of artificial intelligence will help achieve more bright, enhance the economic vitality, construction of national innovative economic goals.
In the wave of artificial intelligence technology, China and other countries stand on the same line. Chinese scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs must go all out to make this time the world's scientific and technological innovation as soon as possible so that everyone is excited about China's moment". (the writer is chairman and chief executive officer of Baidu)