[Pillow Water Wuzhen Network Gathering Prosperity] Li Yanhong： Looking forward to artificial intelligence to bring more surprises

Li Yanhong, Chairman and CEO of Baidu Company (photo by CCTV reporter Li Wenliang)

　　Cctv news(Reporter Luo Chuan Li Wenliang Li Wenxue Tang Shiying) On December 3rd, the 4th world internet conference opened in Wuzhen, Zhejiang. Li Yanhong, chairman and CEO of Baidu Company, delivered a speech at the sub-forum that afternoon. He believed that the Internet had no demographic dividend, and it was replaced by a technology dividend. In the next few decades, technological innovation represented by artificial intelligence will continue to promote the development of the digital economy.

　　The theme of this conference is "Developing Digital Economy and Promoting Open Sharing — — Work together to build a community of cyberspace destiny. " As soon as Li Yanhong took the stage during his speech, he said humorously: "The first few people didn’t have PPT. I think PPT would be more clear if there were dry goods." It attracted a laugh from the field.

　　Li Yanhong said that the growth rate of Internet users in China was above 50% 10 years ago, but it has actually reached about 6% today, which means that the demographic dividend of the Internet is gone. But there is also the driving force for growth, that is, artificial intelligence. Today, artificial intelligence is in a very early stage of development, much like the growth of the Internet in China more than a decade ago.

　　The demographic dividend is gone, and we still have a technological dividend, that is, technological innovation represented by artificial intelligence, which will continue to promote the development of the digital economy in the next few decades. Algorithm, computing power and data are the three growth drivers of artificial intelligence. In the future, the main driving force for the development of digital economy in China will be artificial intelligence, which will develop at a very fast speed.

　　In the past, Internet companies were basically software-oriented, but today they need a strong combination of software, hardware and services in order to be effective.

　　Li Yanhong took the automobile industry as an example. The automobile industry has been an old industry for hundreds of years. But today, because of the development of artificial intelligence technology, it will not only affect the car factory, but also affect many upstream and downstream industries, such as taxi service providers, chip manufacturers and vehicle manufacturers. Many upstream and downstream companies will benefit from it, or they will be threatened by the development of artificial intelligence technology. The automobile industry will undergo tremendous changes in a hundred years.

　　The promotion of artificial intelligence technology to the real economy and all walks of life is obvious. Li Yanhong believes that from finance to real estate, from education to medical care, from logistics to energy, every industry will change because of technological innovation, and it is expected that artificial intelligence will bring constant surprises to each of us.