On the morning of July 5, Li Yanhong took a self-driving car based on Apollo technology from Baidu Building to the National Convention Center. The progress of this Baidu AI Developer Conference began. On the way, Li Yanhong also interacted with Lu Qi on the spot:
Baidu AI Developers Conference (Baidu Create 2017) is the world's first event dedicated to AI developers, with nearly 5,000 developers and eco partners. At the conference, Baidu announced the opening of two platforms, Apollo and DuerOS, and 60 core AI capabilities. Li Yanhong and Lu Qi delivered speeches at the scene.
Baidu Create is Baidu and the first large-scale AI developer conference in China. Like the mechanized, electrified, and informatized eras in history, the depth and breadth of AI's influence on society is unprecedented. AI will, like the first three industrial revolutions, let humanity enter a new era.
Baidu's 17-year search business and early strategic investment have allowed us to accumulate a large number of talent, technology and data resources. In terms of technology, Baidu has the world's leading large-scale neural network; in terms of talents, Baidu currently has more than 2,000 AI R&D personnel and a first-class AI R&D center; in terms of data, Baidu has more than 10 billion levels of positioning data and teraflops. Search data. This makes Baidu the most capable and most promising company to promote the development of AI.
The future of AI belongs to developers. Developers are our industrial driving force and main driving force. Baidu's future is based on a win-win situation with developers. The success of the developer is the real success of Baidu. This is our commitment, which is also the core value of the Baidu AI platform. There are many opportunities in the AI ​​era, but the barriers are still high. Baidu has to remove obstacles, create opportunities, provide tools, data, infrastructure, and a good development environment for every AI developer.
"This is a personal development kit, this is a lightweight development kit..." At the Baidu AI Developer Conference, Baidu’s general manager, Jing Wei, successively released three DuerOS development kits and one Hardware reference design. Just pick up a power supply and pick up a microphone to “wake up everythingâ€.
In Jingjing’s view, the core three elements of “waking up everything†are to “listen, understand, and satisfyâ€.
1. "Listen to clear": Baidu's speech recognition accuracy rate reached 97% or more, but these are not enough in the AI ​​era. In the AI ​​era, we hope to put the voice into the real scene, microphone array, echo cancellation, beamforming, voice wake-up, portrait recognition, etc., are the world's advanced technologies that we gradually promote, will be put into various scenarios to achieve The user hears the needs.
2. "Understanding": Data and technology are the inevitable conditions for creating a dialogue system. With these two points, you can do a "hearing" system that can really talk. Baidu is the company with the largest amount of data. We have billions of data and tens of billions of knowledge. In the AI ​​era, to understand the user, the power of real-time map data will be a very important support.
3. It is not enough to understand and satisfy the user demand of “listening to a song of XXâ€. The real user wants more natural and more complex needs, such as “I want to listen to 'I have a cup to taste your beauty'. The first song, such as "Want to listen to my brother's song", can only make a product that truly understands the user's needs only by making the complex request expressed by the user in the real scene.
Jing Hao said: "Our goal is to do FreeStyle, let users interact with the device most naturally."
He also demonstrated live multi-round conversations with DuerOS:
“Looking for the hottest home cooking in the local areaâ€
"Is there near the Lama Temple?"
“What is the recommended dish for the second family?â€
"Is there a wifi?"
"Good parking?"
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KITT.AI co-founder, CTO Chen Guoguo
Jingyu announced at the Baidu Developer Conference: Baidu will wholly acquire KITT.AI, integrate KITT.AI technology into the Baidu platform, and openly and freely and officially open to Baidu's partners.
KITT.AI focuses on voice wake-up and natural voice interaction technology and is the only company to receive investment from Amazon Alexa and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and has been selected as one of the CB Insights Artificial Intelligence Entrepreneur Top 100.
DuerOS will provide developers with the most easy-to-use hardware and software integration solution, including a diverse development kit and a fully open reference design:
1. Equipped with Raspberry Pi. Use the personal version of Conexant technology. You can apply for a voice device that your individual can talk to.
2. Lightweight version. Put a dollar-sized chip in any device and the device can talk.
3. Standard version. The standard versions of two wheat, four wheat, six wheat, and eight wheat can be applied.
4. Completely integrated reference design. Such as open circuit board design, open architecture design, open microphone arrays, and more.
After Baidu announced the Apollo plan on April 19, the plan received a wide range of positive responses from the industry in just over two months. Today, Lu Qi officially announced Apollo's overall strategy and open roadmap.
Apollo Eco Design is based on a strong philosophy and purpose, the Apollo Declaration. The Apollo Declaration has four basic principles:
1. Openness. Today's automotive industry is moving towards the future of autonomous driving, but the biggest pain point is that technical barriers are too high, and any company needs years of technology, talent and data accumulation. Baidu started earlier, has nearly four years of relevant accumulation, and has strong continuous research and development capabilities. Baidu will open up these capabilities to partners, allowing them to quickly enter autonomous driving research and development.
2. Sharing resources. Any Apollo partner can use Apollo technology and they have the opportunity to contribute to the Apollo ecosystem, especially contributing valuable data resources. The sharing principle of the Apollo program is that you get more from the Apollo ecosystem than you contribute. The more you contribute, the more you get. Apollo benefits and partners benefit more.
3. Accelerate innovation. This is the core of Apollo, because the core technology of AI is data + capabilities. The accumulation of data, the iteration of capabilities, and the speed of technology updates are key to the entire industry. The Apollo ecosystem will bring together more and more data resources, so that Apollo will open more roads every day, more and more test scenarios, and the speed of this iteration and innovation will continue to accelerate. In the future, Apollo's innovation speed and innovation will exceed any closed system, and Apollo's automatic driving ability will certainly lead the entire industry.
4. Continue to win. Baidu's business model will focus on providing a series of high-value commercial core services based on Baidu's core capabilities such as algorithms, data, and large-scale computing. The capabilities provided by Baidu will not be complementary to the current automotive industry. Each partner can focus on their core competencies, using Apollo to accelerate innovation and gain more business value.
Apollo's core technical framework consists of four layers:
First, the middle is the software platform. Apollo has opened a series of important modules, focusing on the following four modules.
1. Self-positioning module: Using Baidu's industry-leading high-precision map, combined with a variety of sensor fusion, each car can be accurately positioned at low cost and all weather.
2. Perception module: Perception is the focus of current autonomous driving industry innovation. The use of top-notch artificial intelligence technology can see and understand road conditions, including every obstacle, pedestrian, and vehicle.
3. Vehicle planning control: The Apollo model uses AI and big data to adopt the safest driving strategy to achieve precise vehicle control and to adapt to traffic conditions in different countries.
4, the operating framework: its core is safe, reliable, real-time control, and can support Intel and NVIDIA chips.
Second, the top layer is the service platform. A series of important open capabilities of Apollo are here. Highlights include:
1, high-precision map service, this is the clairvoyance of automatic driving.
2. Simulation engine. Baidu is rapidly accumulating massive amounts of data, allowing developers to travel millions of kilometers per day.
3. Security services. Baidu will continue to provide developers with a high degree of security services.
In addition, the DuerOS service will provide an intelligent in-car user experience for each car.
Third, reference hardware platform and reference vehicle platform.
The Apollo hardware platform supports a wide range of computing hardware from CPU to GPU to FPGA. It also supports a wide range of sensors from GPS, IMU, camera, to laser radar. At the same time, Apollo's black box is capable of recording and storing all data signals, enabling partners to prevent and handle vehicle accidents more safely and effectively.
Putting all the modules together, Apollo allows each developer to quickly assemble a self-driving car from 0 to 1. Today officially opened to Apollo 1.0, it will have three different open forms: open code, open data and open capabilities. An engineer at Baidu's partner AutonomouStuff, based on Baidu's software framework released today, combined with the recommended hardware combination, completed a self-driving car in just three days.
Baidu officially opened to the public today is Apollo 1.0. Baidu has opened up very valuable data such as closed-circuit tracking autopilot, self-positioning and end-to-end. More importantly, Apollo will quickly open up more and more capabilities, updated every week, with new versions and overall capabilities every two months or so.
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Next, Baidu's specific plan is that by September this year, Apollo will open the fixed-cab automatic driving capability and open part of the simulation engine data; by the end of this year, Apollo will open a series of new capabilities to enable vehicles to be in simple urban road conditions. Under the auto-driving mission, more data and data upload interfaces will be opened. In 2018, 2019, and 2020, Apollo will strengthen its development capabilities and accelerate the opening speed until the final automatic auto-driving.
Lu Qi announced that the Apollo Ecology was officially launched with over 50 initial partners and a lineup of luxury, including:
1.13 excellent Chinese car manufacturers and two world-class car manufacturers - Ford and Daimler.
2. World-class auto parts suppliers and chip companies, sensor companies, map companies, cloud service companies, startups, research institutions.
3. Many urban partners in China.
Lu Qi said: Today Apollo is already the world's most powerful autonomous driving ecosystem.
Apollo's main battlefield is in China, which will provide the best innovation ecosystem for the Chinese automotive industry. "We have the confidence and ability to let China's automatic driving stand in the forefront of the world in the next 3-5 years," Lu Qi said.
Apollo is also the world. Baidu announced today that it has established Apollo's US subsidiary and Singapore subsidiary. “We will develop autonomous driving vehicles in the United States, Singapore and local partners. This will be the first time in modern Chinese history to use Chinese technology to lead the global development of a huge industry.
1. The most complete: Baidu AI platform is composed of Baidu brain and Baidu intelligent cloud, which is the most complete and comprehensive AI platform in China. Baidu brain is the core of Baidu AI platform, and intelligent cloud is the foundation of Baidu AI platform.
2. The most open: Baidu provides developers with 60 powerful and combinable AI capabilities, which is far more than other platforms. Including speech recognition, image recognition, face recognition, video understanding, natural language processing, etc., both in terms of quality and quantity are industry-leading. The Baidu speech recognition API grew by 300% annually, and the image recognition API grew by 200%. Baidu PaddlePaddle is the first open source deep learning computing platform in China.
3. The forefront: Baidu will open a series of new AI capabilities. In Baidu's brain, it will provide far-field speech recognition, video understanding, augmented reality, robot vision, natural language processing platform, etc. In Baidu Smart Cloud, it will provide a new and simpler and easier to use cloud development platform. At the same time, Baidu provides AI-Stack for enterprise customers, which is a hybrid cloud solution with AI features.
4. The most dynamic and most vital: Baidu is the largest AI developer and the largest user of Baidu's AI platform. Most of Baidu's applications, such as search and information flow, use Baidu's AI platform; Baidu uses AI platform and partners to develop a series of AI solutions and smart cloud ecosystems, such as smart customer service, smart sales, financial brain, medical The brain, the brain, the brain, and so on. In addition, the Baidu AI platform is constantly inspiring new and innovative scenarios and applications with far-reaching social significance. For example, using AI to find people, helping the elderly to find lost relatives for many years, using the face to board the plane at the airport.
All of these applications will continue to advance the development of Baidu's AI platform. The most important thing is that the core technology of Baidu AI platform has been accumulated for a long time, and the test of a large number of users, so it is the most energetic and most vital.
First, the "AI Star Plan" was launched. In the past 3 years, we will help train 100,000 AI engineers and provide comprehensive support for AI developers through funds, training, marketing, and policies.
Second, the 13th "Baidu Star" contest was held. “Baidu Star†is very influential in China's technology industry, and the number of students participating in previous competitions has exceeded 200,000. This year's contest will feature "Create for more" as the theme, adding a "developer contest" to the traditional "programming contest", so that more developers can have the opportunity to participate, with the strongest and best The AI ​​ability to innovate.
Third, join hands with the Yangtze River Industry Fund to help developers succeed, set up Apollo Fund and DuerOS Fund to promote the development of Chinese AI.
1. NVIDIA: Baidu's cooperation with the company includes four aspects: cooperation in the development of autonomous driving technology on Apollo, NVIDIA will provide Apollo's reference computing hardware; on the PaddlePaddle deep learning platform, NVIDIA will be dedicated to the research and development team to make PaddlePaddle In the future, it will become China's strongest deep learning platform; on DuerOS and Baidu Smart Cloud, NVIDIA will provide deeper cooperation for developers to provide better GPU support.
2. Intel: Amir Khosrowsashi, CTO of Intel AI Product Group, Baidu and Intel have cooperated for ten years, mainly in three aspects: Baidu Brain; Baidu Smart Cloud; DuerOS. The cooperation between the two sides will allow Intel to have more room for development in China, and Baidu will also get better results. Amir said that Intel attaches great importance to Chinese developers. The purpose of today's conference is to create for developers, as well as Intel.
Li Yanhong took two different unmanned vehicles today and arrived at the National Convention Center from Baidu Building.
The first is an SUV jointly built by Baidu and Bosch, which enables automatic driving on high-speed closed roads. The second is a black car that was transferred at the entrance of the National Convention Center. In addition to the positioning system, this car has no other radars and sensors. It can realize the automatic driving on the lines specified in the closed park according to the trajectory of manual driving.
This black car, the first phase of Apollo's open autopilot capability, is the starting point for the Apollo program, providing partners with the most systematic, mature and lowest threshold. This car was the one mentioned earlier by AutonomouStuff engineers who spent three days renovating with Baidu's open technology.
In the PC Internet era, developers have started from scratch and created a great Internet legend.
In the era of mobile Internet, there is not much innovation in the technical field. For developers, the space for display is not very large.
With the advent of the AI ​​era, technological innovation has revived, and individual heroism in the PC Internet era will not work. Innovation in the AI ​​era requires two-wheel drive of algorithms and data. Excellent algorithms can generate more and more valuable data, and valuable data will in turn promote the further improvement and improvement of the algorithm. This infinite loop has made AI technology over the past few years beyond people's imagination.
In ancient times, communication between people was very inefficient, and people separated by thousands of miles could not share results. Today is a completely different era, and we don’t have to "reinvent the wheel again". When the AI ​​tide arrives, we can put everything in the "treasure bowl". As long as you share and participate, you can get more. AI is the only way to the future, and opening up will allow us all to get more.
The story of four developers tells us that the world should become smarter
Why do you take the plane, remember to take the ID card and have to wait in line for the security check. You have to wait for all kinds of things. Can you just brush your face and go over? We have achieved this in Nanyang. Why should the airport not know you and welcome you like a family? Why do you have to take a long manual study every time a new appliance appears? Why do home remotes have so many buttons that it is difficult to remember their functions? These can be solved with the power of AI. Because of AI, the world will become simpler.
This is the golden age of developers, and we firmly believe that openness can create the best times!
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