[Bit Bear Story Collection] April MVP Hero Story: Microsoft and Intel, special "investment plan" disclosure

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Bit Bear: Gotham flooded in "The New Batman". In reality, we also have to protect the earth from flooding. April 22 is the 53rd Earth Day. On this special holiday, Bit Bear not only invited Intel's OpenVINO technical expert Yang Yicheng also invited Microsoft MVP for 17 years in a row, and Mr. Hu Hao, who has been praised in various ways in the MVP family! Invest together to protect our planet.

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Pit Bear : If two teachers were asked to choose a character they liked in the movie, or the character of "other me", who would they choose?

Hu Hao : I am a person who likes to watch movies and watch American TV dramas very much. I always say that "a man is a teenager until he dies". There are some heroic plots. In a lot of movies, I fall for the heroic characters, for example, Master Chief, as well as Monkey King, Superman, Iron Man, etc. from "Dragon Ball", even Ethan from "Mission: Impossible", is also my idol . So Ethan, do you have any favorite movie characters and movie heroes?

Yang Yicheng : I also like many of the movie heroes that Mr. Hu Hao said, but the one I admire the most is Batman. Everything he does is hidden under the mask, fighting crime, eliminating violence and peace. Although he may be infamous, he still Guard Gotham in the dark night.

Bit Bear : It seems that both of them have very clear heroes in their hearts, looking forward to our detailed sharing after "charging". Since it is Earth Day, I have to mention the "AI for Earth" competition jointly organized by Intel and Microsoft. As an important protagonist, please introduce Ethan~

Yang Yicheng : We Intel and Microsoft jointly created a hackathon with the theme of "Cloud Car Racing, Code to Success", with OpenVINO and Microsoft's Azure service as the technical fulcrum, leading developers and ecological partners in automatic Carry out some exploration and development in the field of driving and industrial safety to promote green and low-carbon development.

Intel has been committed to promoting the automation of industrial technology, including the use of machine vision technology, reducing human repetitive labor, reducing carbon emissions as much as possible, and achieving sustainable production.

BitBear : Thank you Ethan for introducing this "Earth Day" hackathon and sharing Intel's green case. Then Mr. Hu Hao, as our Microsoft MVP, can you also tell us about Microsoft's contribution to green energy, as well as the technical fields you are good at.

Hu Hao : The theme of this year's Earth Day is "Investing in our Earth". Like everyone else, I haven't traveled far since the epidemic. I have always dreamed of one day going out and diving freely. When I was diving in the past, I also observed that every year on Earth Day, major diving organizations would do some activities related to protecting the ocean, such as collecting some marine garbage while diving, and picking up garbage when walking on the beach.

Like this mouse from Microsoft in my hand, almost 20% of the plastic comes from ocean debris. The packaging is also recycled, made with bagasse left over from sugar extraction, showing care for the ocean.

I'm now working at VMware, and like Microsoft, VMware actually has a plan to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030. I am an MVP in the direction of AI and Azure, so in Azure, I will pay more attention to some technologies of IoT Internet of Things. Among many IoT solutions of Microsoft, I will also propose to use Internet technology to help us reduce emissions and protect water resources. and waste recycling, etc.

There are two examples that I am happy to share with you. The first is the data center. We know that in order to ensure stability, the data center generally uses traditional diesel power generation, which has a great impact on the environment, so Microsoft is now trying to use clean Energy, such as hydrogen fuel cells as backup power.

Another example is an experiment carried out by Microsoft in 2018, placing the data center in a stainless steel fully sealed barrel and storing it in the ocean to work normally as a data center. In 2020, the stainless steel barrel was picked up. After two years of use, it was found that its failure rate was only 1/8 of that on land, and it also saved the energy required for heat dissipation.

Hu Hao : The technical topic I want to talk to you today is about the AI-based services of Microsoft Azure, which are divided into three categories. The first category is the underlying Machine Learning. Based on machine learning, some cognitive services can be built, including language, vision, speech, etc., to help us make some decisions, and these services are easy to embed into the workflow. There is a machine learning studio in the cloud of Azure, with three artifacts:

**1. The designer can quickly achieve our goals by dragging and dropping. The threshold is relatively low, and it does not matter if the concepts such as machine learning models are not very clear.
2. Automated machine learning, we can put forward the goal of our machine here, provide the corresponding data set, and let it automatically select the appropriate model.
3. Notepad to help us quickly understand the code and do some interactive learning. **

This is the so-called life cycle of machine learning, from building a model to tuning and training, and finally packaging, validating, and deploying the trained model. When it comes to deployment, we have to mention OpenVINO. OpenVINO has a good connection with MLOps, and we can use OpenVINO to further optimize in the release process. Models that have not been optimized may require more CPU time and consume more energy.

In this layer of cognitive services, a new service called OpenAI was added last year. OpenAI is an organization that Musk and Microsoft each invested 1 billion US dollars as start-up capital, and built such an organization in 2018 to do a very large amount of data. Training, its first version GPT uses 117 million parameters, the number of pre-training has reached this 5 GB, and the pre-training data of GPT-3 has reached an astonishing 45 TB. Microsoft has gradually introduced OpenAI to the platform in the middle.

What exactly is the point of GPT-3? It itself is divided into four different model levels. The highest level, Da Vinci, can automatically generate creative content according to a specific audience. For example, we can let it help us generate the commentary of the game. We have done experiments before, and the audience has no way to distinguish this commentary. Was it written by a real person? In Microsoft's own services, such as the low-code platform Power BI and other analytical platform tools, it is used to build a model and use a natural language-like way to construct an expression, which can help people without programming training. Business people. There is also an AI program companion, which is also a very powerful tool. I have used it myself. It can automatically help you generate some code segments, which is very trouble-free.

Finally, I recommend a learning path for you to quickly understand Microsoft's artificial intelligence based on MSLearn. I look forward to learning and advanced together.

Yang Yicheng : Mr. Hu Hao talked about the machine learning and cognitive services of Microsoft Azure. With the help of OpenVINO, we can further reduce the energy consumption on the AI platform. Intel's Chengdu plant has taken the lead in applying AI technology to production management. Only through such a system of rainwater collection, it can save about 400,000 gallons of fresh water every year.

OpenVINO can help balance the response speed and energy consumption of the model on the device side when the model is deployed, and reduce the consumption of AI computing resources. My main content is the introduction of runtime API 2.0 in the new version of OpenVINO 2022.1.

OpenVINO is a deep learning framework released by Intel in 2018. Its core goal is to accelerate the performance of deep learning model inference on Intel platforms. It has been four years since OpenVINO was released. After several iterations, some new components and functions have been added.

The process of OpenVINO's development model is divided into three steps:

1. Construction, if you feel that the model of Open Model Zoo is not suitable for your current target scene, you can also re-train our training model through our training tool through some of your own custom data sets, and then deploy it to the Your device or some application scenarios.

2. Optimization, we provide a visual debugging tool such as Deep Learning Workbench to help you quickly perform some visual model performance evaluation and accuracy evaluation on the web page. In addition, there is a tool called Post-Training Optimization for post-training. quantization, so that the quantization and compression of the model can be realized.

3. Deployment, we support deployment on different Intel hardware platforms, such as an ATOM small CPU or Core Duo CPU, Intel's integrated graphics and GPU, and so on.

The first new feature brought by OpenVINO API 2.0 is the Preprocessing API interface. Its core capability is to inherit our preprocessing tasks into the execution graph of the model. The advantage of this is that the complete PaddlePaddle model can be The processing flow is packaged into a computational graph of the model. If some business systems are already running on your CPU, then our part of the preprocessing tasks will not occupy the resources of your task system.

Here I have listed a benchmark, which is the latest data from Intel. Compared with the previous 2021.4 version, the 2022.1 version has a relatively large improvement in performance on the same hardware platform.

Finally, we also provide a shortcut to quickly learn the runtime 2.0 interface. We made a small Snippets on our VS Code, which can quickly help you complete the code without having to consult the documentation repeatedly. Personally, I have always used VS Code as a core development platform. It has some definitions for some of OpenVINO's regular Recommend API operations... If you are interested in OpenVINO's new runtime and don't want to repeatedly read our official API documentation, You can use the Snippets tool of VS Code.

If you are interested in OpenVINO inference deployment optimization, you are also very welcome to join our OpenVINO Chinese community. This community was established on May 16, 2020. We will regularly hold some online and offline salon activities , provides a communication field for artificial intelligence developers. You can also follow our B station and public account here. There are a lot of technical sharing about OpenVINO and some training courses on B station.

BitBear : Thanks to the two teachers for bringing technical dry goods and further learning and exploration paths. In addition to sharing professional knowledge, BitBear also wanted to know the interesting stories of the two teachers themselves. I have to say that Mr. Hu Hao has been a Microsoft MVP for 17 consecutive years. After joining the Microsoft MVP family for so long, there must be many unforgettable moments. Let’s break the news from the perspective of Microsoft MVP for 17 years!

Hu Hao : I have been in this MVP circle for a long time, and I know many MVP friends. Microsoft first established such a project in order to have a better community bridge between Microsoft and users. MVP can deliver the user's voice to Microsoft faster, such as to product groups or R&D. On the other hand, we can also share Microsoft's latest technology to the community.

We have organized many activities, to give two examples, one is that we have organized some public welfare activities at the MVP summit before, such as teaching some programming to the children of migrant workers. Every year we also do activities like "Hour of Code" with Microsoft and other organizations. In 2017, the current CEO of Microsoft came to China that year, and gave a very precious five minutes to communicate with the CEO and left a group photo. When talking about Cognitive Services, I often use this photo as an example.

BitBear : Welcome more aspiring experts and friends to join our beautiful family. Then I also want to ask Ethan, what is it like to work at Intel?

Yang Yicheng : Actually, I just joined Intel not long ago. I joined last year. As a multinational company or a foreign company, Intel will not encourage you to spend a lot of time at work, or useless overtime. In such a situation as 996 . We will also regularly do some offline activities to help everyone better communicate and interact with colleagues.

Secondly, as a very influential company in the world, Intel has a very rich technology stack. Some of our colleagues work on cloud, some work on 5G, some work on AI, and some work on hardware implementation. I am also very fortunate to work with many bigwigs. Working at Intel gives me the opportunity to experience various technologies and expose myself to areas that I have not been involved in. In terms of material things, our company's benefits are very good. There are gyms and basketball courts. Generally speaking, it is a very humane working environment.

BitBear : In the face of the epidemic, everyone has become accustomed to working from home. The two teachers are currently in Shanghai. When they are at home, whether it is work or life balance, can everyone share their coup?

Hu Hao : My main field of work is end-user computing, which is committed to providing a very safe remote working environment, so for me, working from home has become the norm. I have entered the so-called hybrid office since the beginning of 2020. Scenes. I couldn’t get into the company for a long time. Later, after the epidemic situation got better, the company I worked for also advocated the form of working from home. I also specially applied for a monitor from the company. The epidemic came relatively suddenly, and many friends may have been locked at home. After a long time at home, I will definitely feel anxious and need to take the initiative to relieve my emotions, such as the movies and American dramas we just started talking about. Sometimes I use MSLearn as my pastime to brush up on learning paths, and every time you look at a field that may be completely unrelated to your job, it's interesting, and maybe at some point in the future, this knowledge will Feed back into your work.

Many people, including some of our little friends, have not had the opportunity to get a haircut at home for so long. You can see that my hair is relatively short, because I bought a clipper since 12 years and gave myself a haircut hahaha.

Yang Yicheng : I'm different from Mr. Hu Hao, my hairstyle is not suitable for use with clippers, so I haven't had my hair cut for more than a month. I am also troubled by many aspects of working from home. For example, my children cry when I go to work during the day. At the same time, I constantly have to switch between work and daily life. I have to grab food, receive express delivery, and do nucleic acid. Frequent interruptions. I have several solutions, and I try to deal with some team-related tasks during the day, such as meeting, or discussing a report or proposal. The night time is relatively quiet, and I can do some personal work, such as writing code, reading books, writing personal reports, etc., so I can concentrate better.

After staying at home, your entire routine may also be disrupted, and you need to find a new biological clock that suits you. After it is fixed, it can still achieve a more efficient state. I used to prefer to play basketball, football or something. Now I also take out the PS4 that I haven't played in a long time and play some football games and basketball games to kill the weekend.

Pit Bear: The last prime time, of course, is reserved for our movie recommendation link, Ethan, who worships Batman as a hero, comes first!

Yang Yicheng: Then let me talk about my favorite movies and TV series. First of all, my two favorite movies are "Batman: The Dark Knight" and "Lord of the Rings". The former changed the way of making superhero movies and created a A vigilante figure based on the real world; The Lord of the Rings is a huge, truly epic movie.

Hu Hao : I also like the "Lord of the Rings" series very much. The war scenes are very enjoyable. The Fellowship of the Ring has resisted so many temptations. After going through hardships, the Lord of the Rings was sent to the Doomsday Volcano to be destroyed. The whole process is still very shocking in retrospect.

Yang Yicheng : I chose Joker's poster for "Batman". In the past, the villains were often for money or more mundane interests. Joker seems to be the incarnation of the evil god, pursuing pure chaos. Heath Ledger's performance is even more wonderful. Absolutely, fascinated me.

Hu Hao: I like various types of films, such as sci-fi, war, and dramas with more sophisticated structures. In the past, I liked To Qifeng's films, "Dark War" and so on. This time, I especially want to mention "Ink Attack" starring Andy Lau, which is adapted from a Japanese comic and tells the story of our Mozi. I really like Mozi's point of view, such as love non-gong, sparing the use of monks.

These ideas of Mozi are not as widely spread as Xianxue. He has been trying to use his own technology to change the world. It is similar to our dedication to the community and open source. Everyone will have idealistic views on some things. idea. Andy Lau is also an actor I like very much. He is a very hardworking actor. Maybe his talent is not the best, and his acting skills may not be the best, but you will see that he has been working very hard to keep improving. Own.

Taking myself as an example, I may not necessarily have very good qualifications, nor may I be very professional in a certain direction, but I believe that if I keep the attitude of learning, even if there is no very good result, this process has already made the People are very satisfied.

Bit Bear has something to say

April lingers in the spring, Bit Bear is very happy to invite two experts from Microsoft MVP team and Intel who are as warm as April in such a comfortable season. It is undeniable that the guests invited by Bit Bear are highly skilled, and they also bring new inspiration and life force to Bit Bear.

Mr. Hu Hao , our 17-year Microsoft MVP, always with the most humble attitude, constantly learns and enriches himself, and does not hesitate to contribute himself to help others. Mr. Hu Hao has put in a lot of voluntary sharing, and he also has a wealth of hobbies, such as photography, calligraphy, diving. It is not difficult to see from our live broadcast clips that exploring new knowledge is also one of his interests, and he enjoys the process very much. harvest in. The contact with Ethan is because of the "AI for Earth" competition being held by Microsoft and Intel, and he has demonstrated his professional ability as a technical guide. When it comes to characters in movies and TV dramas, Ethan also has a lot to share, such as his favorite hero Batman and the unnamed protagonist of "Eavesdropping Storm". Or "Old White" in "Breaking Bad", thinking of himself, he can often pay less attention to value judgments from the outside world, find something that he likes, is willing to spend time researching, and is valuable to others, forming an inner circle. Drive, keep improving yourself.

Although the opportunity to meet offline has been delayed due to the epidemic, we also learned that the omnipotent developers in the "world of 0 and 1" are also "grabbing vegetables", "adjusting the laws of life", and "solving hair problems" of course they still output a solid solution in this case. I hope that everyone has received the technical charging and positive emotional value output by the two experts as I have, and experienced the fun and romance of developers like spring!

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