On May 6, the 12th Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Award Ceremony and the 2022 China Artificial Intelligence Industry Annual Conference were held simultaneously in Beijing and Suzhou with the theme of "Scenario Driven Data Intelligence Power". Wang Haifeng, chief technology officer of Baidu and director of the National Engineering Research Center for Deep Learning Technology and Application, led the team to complete the achievement of "General Dialogue Technology and Application of Integration of Knowledge and Deep Learning", which won the "2022 Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Progress Award Special Prize". This is the first time that a special award has been selected for this award.
Baidu CTO Wang Haifeng and his team won the first special prize of the Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Technology Progress Award
It is understood that the "Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Award" is named after Mr. Wu Wenjun, the pioneer and leader of my country's intelligent science research, the winner of the first National Highest Science and Technology Award, and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It is a science and technology award established by social forces. Nominated and recommended for the National Science and Technology Award qualification, known as the "China's highest award for intelligent science and technology", representing the highest honor in the field of artificial intelligence in my country.
Baidu Wang Haifeng team won the special prize of Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Technology Progress Award
The research results of Wang Haifeng's team mainly broke through the four problems of general dialogue technology, and achieved innovative results in the key technologies of knowledge-integrated dialogue management, dialogue speech recognition, dialogue understanding, and dialogue generation. It mainly includes: a general dialogue management technology based on knowledge unified representation is proposed, which solves the problem of incoherent dialogue; a streaming dialogue speech recognition technology integrating knowledge is proposed, which solves the problem of inaudible dialogue ; Dialogue understanding technology solves the problem of inaccurate understanding; a dialog generation technology based on hidden variables and knowledge is proposed to solve the problem of incorrect responses.
In this regard, some academicians and experts commented that "the overall technical indicators and application effects have reached the international leading level, which has greatly enhanced my country's technological competitiveness and industrial influence in this field."
As the first completer, Wang Haifeng said in his acceptance speech that general dialogue technology is one of the most challenging directions in the field of artificial intelligence, and it is also considered an essential capability for general artificial intelligence. The conversational artificial intelligence that has attracted much attention today has general dialogue technology behind it. The team has continued to explore and innovate in technology for many years, breaking through the general-purpose dialogue technology that integrates knowledge and deep learning, and has been widely used in various industries and people's production and life.
According to public information, this research project has been authorized 82 invention patents, published 36 high-level papers, and won 11 world champions in international authoritative evaluations. At present, the results of the project have achieved large-scale industrial applications, supporting 500 million smart devices and serving more than 1 billion users, covering more than 20 industries including communications, finance, automobiles, and energy. Among them, Wenxin Yiyan, which has attracted much attention from the outside world, also uses R&D innovations in general dialogue technology. For example, Wenxin Yiyan has the advantages of knowledge enhancement, retrieval enhancement and dialogue enhancement. In terms of dialogue enhancement, it has memory mechanism, context understanding and dialogue planning capabilities, which can achieve better dialogue coherence, rationality and logic.
In recent years, the country has paid more and more attention to artificial intelligence technology and industry. Just yesterday, the first meeting of the 20th Central Financial and Economic Commission emphasized that we must grasp the wave of new technological revolutions such as artificial intelligence, adapt to the requirements of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, and maintain and enhance the advantages of a complete industrial system and strong supporting capabilities. Efficiently gather global innovation elements, promote industrial intelligence, greening, and integration, and build a modern industrial system that is complete, advanced, and safe.
Some analysts believe that the current artificial intelligence has become an important driving force for a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation. Chinese technology companies continue to make major breakthroughs in technology, actively explore technology practices and industrial applications, and provide intelligent transformation for all walks of life. , high-level scientific and technological self-reliance, and high-quality social and economic development have contributed an important force.