Recently, the HUAWEI CLOUD AI Dean Summit was held in Chengdu with the theme of "Inclusive AI, Making Intelligence Everywhere". The summit brought together academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, as well as more than 40 deans, professors, and experts from more than 30 top universities in China to discuss the latest development trends of artificial intelligence technologies, share leading technical views, and explore how to accelerate the frontier theory of artificial intelligence Achievement transformation and the construction of a new model of interdisciplinary talent training and disciplines.
Group photo of guests at the HUAWEI CLOUD AI Dean Summit
At the same time, as the annual meeting and communication platform of the HUAWEI CLOUD AI Talent Training Expert Steering Committee, this summit jointly discussed the key tasks of HUAWEI CLOUD AI and university cooperative talent training, and commended the annual outstanding teachers and university teams, and awarded the " A total of 15 units, teachers, and individuals won the three major awards of "Best Paper Reproduction Award", "Huawei Cloud AI Club Excellent Demonstration Unit" and "AI Famous Teacher Award".
At this summit, Professor Gao Wen, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, director of the Pengcheng Laboratory, and dean of the School of Information Science and Technology of Peking University, pointed out in the keynote report: "China's development of a new generation of artificial intelligence requires policy support, data resources, application scenarios, young talents, etc., and make up for shortcomings such as original algorithms, sensors, open source platforms, and high-end talents; tactically, it is necessary to adopt statistical AI based on big data to solve large-scale AI application needs, and encourage various possibilities. strong artificial intelligence exploration."
Zhang Bo, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and honorary dean of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence of Tsinghua University, said: "To develop the third generation of artificial intelligence, we must adhere to the two-wheel drive method, that is, combine knowledge-driven and data-driven, and make full use of knowledge and data. , algorithms, and computing power. At this HUAWEI CLOUD AI Dean Summit, we mainly focus on two themes of talent training and scientific research. In terms of talent training, we need to cultivate innovative spirit and ability; At the same time, we must also emphasize innovation, especially innovation in leadership.”
Jia Yongli, General Manager of HUAWEI CLOUD EI Service Product Department, said: "HUAWEI CLOUD has always been adhering to the concept of empowering AI to thousands of industries, making AI development easier and more inclusive. HUAWEI CLOUD AI will persist in taking root in the industry and helping the industry Solve the challenges of low AI development efficiency and difficult integration of industry knowledge and AI. With the help of this HUAWEI CLOUD AI Dean Summit, HUAWEI CLOUD hopes to discuss and explore with deans, experts, and professors how to promote AI to achieve better progress; At the same time, promote the integration of production and education, strengthen the training of AI talents, so that AI talents can better respond to the needs and changes of the market and industry."
Promote the integration of production and education, and help colleges and universities cultivate innovative AI talents
Talent is the foundation of innovation, and artificial intelligence innovation requires the continuous efforts of batch after batch of innovative talents. In order to promote the cultivation of innovative and applied AI talents, HUAWEI CLOUD and top domestic universities jointly established an AI talent training expert steering committee in 2020, and released the "AI Ten Thousands", "AI Industry-University-Research", "AI Club", "AI The five major AI talent training programs of "Training Camp" and "AI Talent Exchange" have now made staged progress.
Among them, the HUAWEI CLOUD "AI Ten Hundred Thousand" academic plan encourages teachers and students in colleges and universities across the country to actively participate in ModelArts, a one-stop AI development platform based on HUAWEI CLOUD, to study, reproduce and interpret AI classic papers. Now HUAWEI CLOUD has released paper reproduction tasks covering computer vision, transfer learning, natural language processing, MindSpore and other fields, attracting more than 25 well-known universities to participate, and all C9 universities are covered. Up to now, the "AI Ten Hundred Thousand" academic program has completed the reproduction of more than 100 classic papers, and the algorithms of the reproduced classic papers have been launched on the AI Gallery for developers to learn and use, so that more AI learners can learn faster to master the AI.
At the same time, HUAWEI CLOUD has joined hands with University of Science and Technology of China, Soochow University, China University of Mining and Technology, Jinan University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and other universities to establish more than 26 "AI clubs" (including MDG community), and organized more than 100 AI-themed activities , including AI Knowledge Contest, HUAWEI CLOUD MDG Technology Salon, practical exercise technology sharing, etc. More than 1,000 students participated in the learning discussion. In addition, HUAWEI CLOUD "AI Training Camp" has launched more than 20 series of basic courses and technical interpretation courses such as natural language processing, OCR, graph database, and knowledge graph. Combined with offline training camp activities, it has effectively improved the theory and practice of AI learners. ability.
In addition, HUAWEI CLOUD and Shanghai Jiaotong University have jointly established three HUAWEI CLOUD Artificial Intelligence Competition Unmanned Vehicle Challenge Cups. The competition relies on Huawei Cloud's one-stop AI development platform ModelArts, device-cloud collaborative multi-modal AI application development kit HiLens, and driverless cars, aiming to comprehensively exercise and improve contestants' AI solution capabilities and driverless programming skills. Now the competition has attracted nearly 400 participating teams, covering more than 200 colleges and universities at home and abroad, covering all C9 colleges and universities, and more than 1,500 participating students. It has become a top event in the field of unmanned vehicles.
Basic innovation + academic openness to accelerate the transformation of artificial intelligence achievements
In order to realize inclusive AI and make intelligence omnipresent, Huawei is the first in the industry to implement a full-stack and full-scenario AI solution, including AI chips, AI computing frameworks, and innovative AI application enabling technologies, providing AI application developers with powerful computing power and development platform. In the past two years, HUAWEI CLOUD has successively released innovative solutions and services such as knowledge computing, urban intelligence hub, Pangu series pre-trained large models, and Tianchou AI solver, accelerating the implementation and large-scale application of artificial intelligence in the industry.
Tian Qi, Chief Scientist of HUAWEI CLOUD Artificial Intelligence and IEEE Fellow, said: "Artificial intelligence is accelerating into thousands of industries, but opportunities and challenges coexist. HUAWEI CLOUD AI will continue to innovate in technology, focusing on knowledge computing, pre-trained large models and Research on safety and reliability, etc., to create the black land of artificial intelligence and enable large-scale, reproducible AI industry applications."
At the same time, HUAWEI CLOUD is actively cooperating with universities in joint innovation to accelerate the transformation of cutting-edge innovations in artificial intelligence. Huawei and Soochow University jointly built an enterprise intelligent NLP joint innovation laboratory. The customizable natural language processing project jointly developed by the two parties has produced a series of original achievements such as the first multi-granularity word segmentation in the industry and unified modeling of grammar analysis. Multiple sets of word segmentation suites have been delivered. , More than 20 categories of NER algorithm suites, won the CCKS2019 Technology Innovation Award.
HUAWEI CLOUD and the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University have developed a new broad-spectrum antibacterial drug based on the large molecular model of HUAWEI CLOUD Pangu, shortening the lead drug development cycle from several years to one month, and greatly improving the efficiency of new drug development. Among them, through the structure optimizer of the large molecular model of Pangu drugs on Huawei Cloud, the combination of small molecule compounds and target antibacterial target proteins is effectively improved, while the binding to human proteins is reduced, thereby weakening the normal effect of broad-spectrum antibacterial drugs on the human body. Potential toxic side effects of cells.
Huawei Cloud, Huawei Noah's Ark Laboratory, and Harbin Institute of Technology jointly developed a Chinese medical information processing model, and innovatively proposed the KGMask method, which has achieved significant results in the single tasks of information extraction CMeEE, text classification CHIP-CTC, and semantic matching KUAKE-QQR. In the lead, the total score topped the list of CBLUE.
HUAWEI CLOUD believes that root technology innovation, platform innovation, and talent innovation are the three elements of basic AI innovation. HUAWEI CLOUD will continue to invest in basic AI innovation, and actively cooperate with universities to promote the integration of production and education, and accelerate the large-scale application of AI. Realize HP AI and jointly prosper the new ecology of the artificial intelligence industry.