WAIC Countdown | 2022 World Artificial Intelligence Conference Tencent Forum, the first to understand the three highlights

With the large-scale application of artificial intelligence, technology has already moved from the "ivory tower" of the laboratory into more and more production and life scenes, bringing new imagination.

As the top summit in the field of artificial intelligence, the 2022 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) is about to be held in Shanghai. This year marks the fifth consecutive year that Tencent has participated in the World Artificial Intelligence Conference. This Tencent Forum will be held on September 3 with the theme of "View · See". The forum is divided into three chapters: industry chapter, trend chapter, and goodness chapter. Dozens of heavyweight experts and scholars from different fields are invited to the event to share industry insights.

In July this year, six national ministries and commissions jointly issued the "Guiding Opinions on Accelerating Scenario Innovation and Promoting High-quality Economic Development with High-level Application of Artificial Intelligence". The opinion pointed out that scene innovation has become a new path for artificial intelligence technology upgrade and industrial growth, which indicates that AI has entered a new stage of scene innovation from technological innovation.

In the past few years, Tencent has continued to develop self-developed technologies, focused on building an independent and controllable technology base, and accelerated the opening of platform-based products. At the same time, focusing on the digitalization scenarios of thousands of industries, Tencent also proposes a variety of industry solutions, and cooperates with partners to build an open, healthy and safe digital ecosystem, and continues to contribute scientific and technological strength to the construction of the digital economy.

This year, what innovative and practical achievements have Tencent made in helping "digital-real integration"? In the field of artificial intelligence, what new breakthroughs and progress will be announced? Let's take a look at the highlights of this Tencent Forum.

Aspect 1: Industry

Tencent showcases the latest industrial implementation practices and uses AI to help the development of the real economy

The integration of data and reality is accelerating, and intelligent transformation has become the only way for enterprise development. In 2021, Tencent proposed that the ultimate value of artificial intelligence is "serving people". Among them, managers, producers, developers, and users have the core requirements for AI—the four capabilities of decision-making, collaboration, innovation, and service. In the past year, what technological breakthroughs has Tencent Cloud AI made, and what positive progress has been made in integrating with the real economy? How will Tencent use digital technologies such as AI and digital twins to help the high-quality development of the real economy?

In the industry chapter, Wu Yunsheng, Vice President of Tencent Cloud and General Manager of Tencent Youtu Lab, Jing Yanqing, General Manager of Tencent Interactive Entertainment Quality Management Department, General Manager of Tencent Pioneer Cloud Games, and Wan Chao, Vice President of Tencent Digital Twin Products, will deliver keynote speeches, focusing on AI on the cloud helps industries to transform into digital intelligence, cross-border application of cloud game technology in industry and other fields, and digital twins help smart cities and smart transportation construction.

Aspect 2: Trends

The first domestic financial AI white paper was released, focusing on the exploration of digital upgrading of the financial industry

With the development and maturity of artificial intelligence technology, AI-related products and services are increasingly enriched and deeply integrated into all walks of life. For example, in the digital upgrade of banking, insurance, securities and other financial industries, AI is playing an increasingly important role.

In the past few years, Tencent Cloud AI has been widely used in financial scenarios, and has reached cooperation with a number of banks, insurance, and securities institutions. By applying multi-modal fusion to computational vision research, it helps financial institutions solve handwriting recognition with a small sample size. , ID photo authentication, contract data extraction and other complex identification problems. Taking Bank of Communications as an example, Tencent Youtu improves the generalization performance of information extraction by introducing multi-modal technology, helps solve the OCR information structure extraction of non-standard documents, improves the recognition rate of images and documents, and promotes business efficiency and user experience improvement.

At present, many banks, including Bank of Communications, apply computer vision technologies such as image classification, OCR recognition, and face recognition to business scenarios. In the context of the continuous acceleration of the digital transformation of financial institutions, based on practical experience and industry research, Tencent Research Institute will also release the first domestic financial AI white paper at this forum. Regarding the positive impact of AI technology on the transformation and development of the financial industry, the white paper will present a series of analyses, which will be interpreted by Du Xiaoyu, deputy dean of Tencent Research Institute.

Aspect 3: Towards the Good

The "Star Exploration Program" announces the latest progress and explores the sustainable development of AI

In 2021, Tencent and the National Astronomical Observatory jointly launched the "Star Exploration Program". The two parties will improve the efficiency of finding pulsars based on the leading computer vision technology of Tencent Youtu Lab and the leading computing power of Tencent Cloud. Through self-developed AI algorithm, Tencent Youtu helps China Tianyan FAST process the huge data received every day and obtain pulsar clues efficiently. After using the new system, the AI has increased the signal processing efficiency by 120 times under the same computing power. As the "Star Exploration Program" enters its first anniversary, this conference will bring new progress in the series of Star Exploration Programs. AI explores the universe and the unknown, and there are more mysteries waiting to be discovered, which will be revealed on the spot.

In addition to the sea of stars, the development and opening of AI technology has also opened a window for public welfare people to find more new ways to serve the society. Promote profound changes in the mode of public welfare participation.

"Opening up AI technology, lowering the technical threshold, and gathering social forces to help science and technology for good" is the philosophy that Tencent has always implemented. In June of this year, 24 "innovators" teams from the 2nd Tencent Light Public Welfare Innovation Challenge completed the final roadshow, competing for the "Minor Safety Protection/Education" track, "Quality Education" track, The winner of the "Biodiversity Conservation/Education" track, as well as the Popular Star Award and the Public Welfare Innovation Award. They applied AI technology on Tencent Cloud to jaundice identification and wildlife research, which fully reflects the development potential of "technology + public welfare". At this forum, the organizing committee will present awards to the winning teams of this challenge, and encourage more people who are willing to use technology to help others and create a better life together.

Gathering sparks and gathering the strength of everyone to make AI better serve people is an issue for the entire industry and society. In the roundtable forum of "Going up and doing good" of this forum, Li Di, the chief scientist of FAST "China Sky Eye" of the National Astronomical Observatory, Wu Minxia, the legendary Olympic hardware champion, Chen Yan, general manager of Tencent CDC and promoter of Tencent Technology Public Welfare, and deputy of Tencent Security Management Department Yang Peng, General Manager and Deputy General Manager of Tencent's Intellectual Property Department, and Wang Chengjie, Research Director of Tencent Youtu Lab, will conduct multi-disciplinary dialogues to discuss how technology can help the sustainable development of society.

In the future, how to use technology to create benefits for the sustainable development of human society? What breakthroughs will our production and life usher in under the influence of technology? Follow the "Tencent Youtu" video account to make an appointment to watch the live broadcast of the Tencent Forum and find the answer together.

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