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The Light of Internet Expo opens in Wuzhen, East China's Zhejiang province on Tuesday. As a part of the 2023 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit, the expo brings innovative companies from both China and around the world.
These exhibitors showcase the latest technologies and new products in various areas such as digital technology, intelligent manufacturing, digital education and cyberspace governance.
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A symposium for the World Internet Conference (WIC) member representatives was held during the World Internet Conference Nishan Dialogue on Digital Civilization in Nishan, Qufu, East China's Shandong province, on June 25.
The symposium has as its theme "Embracing the Opportunities and Challenges of Digital Cooperation: Confidence and Recovery".
In a world driven by innovation, robots have become an integral part of our lives. At the 7th World Intelligence Congress, smart robots take center stage, showcasing their remarkable capabilities and potential.
With their advanced technologies, such as supercomputing, AI algorithms and big data analysis, robots are now capable of extraordinary tasks, from brewing coffee and playing soccer to conducting industrial inspections and storing components.
Business leaders, experts and government officials engage in an in-depth discussion on generative AI, large language models and the integration of 5G with the industrial internet at the summit on Innovation and Development of the 7th World Intelligence Congress.
The event, which opened in Tianjin on May 18, also showcases intelligent technology exhibition spanning 120,000 square meters with 10 themed exhibition areas.
China will intensify efforts to develop artificial intelligence, both in theoretical research and cutting-edge technologies, to build a batch of regional AI industrial hubs for economic and social development, officials said on Thursday.
"China considers AI an important means of enhancing productivity, upgrading industries and improving people's well-being. The country has launched AI development plans and supported the establishment of 18 national new-generation AI innovation and development pilot areas and 32 innovation platforms across the country," said Wang Zhigang, minister of science and technology.
TIANJIN - The seventh World Intelligence Congress (WIC), a major artificial intelligence (AI) event in China, kicked off in the northern Tianjin Municipality on Thursday.
With an aim to build a global platform for academic exchanges, exhibitions, innovation and business promotion in the field of intelligent technology, this year's event has attracted almost 500 exhibitors from all over the world.
The 7th World Intelligence Congress kicked off in Tianjin on Thursday with a theme of "Intelligence: Extensive Development Space, Sustainable Growth Driver."
The 4-day event focuses on empowering economic and social development with smart technologies and building a global platform for exchange, cooperation, win-win outcomes and sharing in the field of intelligent technology.
Technological advances transform computer industry and daily life
Just five seconds after Abu was asked to paint a picture of cattle returning to a farm, an image was provided with the reply, "Here it is".
The 7th World Intelligence Congress is set to take place from May 18 to 21 in North China's Tianjin municipality, with the largest, high-quality smart tech exhibition to be held offline, said Zhu Peng, deputy mayor of Tianjin at the news conference for the event on Thursday.
This year's AI congress, under the theme of "Intelligence: Extensive Development Space and Sustainable Growth Driver", aims to showcase the latest achievements and trends of AI development and expand international cooperation into new fields.
FUZHOU -- At the 6th Digital China Summit, an exhibitor surnamed Zhang experienced an AI emotion-recognition system. Simply standing in front of the device, her stress values, blood oxygen levels, heart rate and other physiological indexes appeared on-screen within seconds.
The AI emotion-recognition 3.0 system made its debut at the summit, a two-day event held on Thursday and Friday in the city of Fuzhou in east China's Fujian Province.
Chinese cloud computing companies are intensifying efforts to back the development of artificial intelligence or AI-powered large language models in the wake of ChatGPT fever unleashed by US-based AI research company OpenAI, experts said.
The process of developing AI models is systematic, requiring several technologies like computing networks, big data and AI frameworks, and needs immense computing power and large-scale intelligent computing infrastructure, they said.
Tech heavyweights step up development efforts as concerns voiced over new problems
Artificial intelligence technology is expected to witness speedy growth in China and inject fresh momentum into a new round of industrial development, experts said.
Huawei Technologies Co forecast that global artificial intelligence computing power will increase 500 times by 2030, and the company will keep investing in domains like connectivity, computing, storage and cloud to help accelerate digital transformation.
The moves came as Huawei adjusts its strategies in a business-as-usual approach amid prolonged US government restrictions, and focuses on creating new growth opportunities for the next few years.
Chinese tech heavyweight Alibaba Group Holding Ltd on Tuesday unveiled its artificial intelligence-powered large language model — Tongyi Qianwen — which it plans to integrate into all of its applicable businesses, joining the chatbot race to offer a potential rival to ChatGPT.
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing unit of Alibaba, will offer more enterprises access to Tongyi Qianwen so that they can build their own customized large language models.
Artificial intelligence is expected to usher in speedy growth in China and become a key driving force for a new round of technological and industrial revolution, as major Chinese tech heavyweights have accelerated efforts to develop their own AI-powered large models amid a worldwide frenzy around the ChatGPT chatbot, experts said.
AI and ChatGPT-related technologies will likely free human beings from tedious tasks and enable them to focus on creative thinking, with immense application potential in fields like culture, retail, finance, healthcare and education, they added.
Leading Chinese tech companies said on Thursday that they would not like to see a pause or slowdown in the game-changing GPT-4 technology, but instead vowed more efforts to develop responsible artificial intelligence to balance benefits and risks.
They made the comments after Tesla CEO Elon Musk and dozens of other tech executives called on AI labs to cease training models more powerful than GPT-4 — the latest version of the large language model software developed by US startup OpenAI.
China's Ministry of Science and Technology has launched a special deployment of "AI for Science", Xinhua reported on Monday.
The deployment closely integrates the key issues of basic disciplines including mathematics, physics, chemistry and astronomy.
Chinese tech leader Tencent Holdings said on Wednesday that artificial intelligence would be a future "growth multiplier" for the company, as it reported a rebound in net profit in the fourth quarter of last year.
The company's net profit, after five successive quarters of declines, rose 19 percent year-on-year to 29.7 billion yuan ($4.32 billion) in the fourth quarter.
