In human history, the speed of technological change has been accelerating. Especially since this year, AIGC has opened a new era of intelligence for human development, detonated a new era of industrial revolution, and further highlighted the importance of large models.
However, the development of AI will never be limited to the scenario of generative AI, and large models will not be limited to general large models. In the future, the combination of AI with more segmented scenarios and vertical industries will accelerate the entry of AI into thousands of industries and promote the intelligent transformation process of the entire industry.
For example, in the field of smart cities, city managers need to grasp the overall situation and risk issues of city operations in a timely manner, conduct situation tracking and operational command of major urban emergencies, and make scientific decisions on urban development planning based on the auxiliary decision-making capabilities provided by the city brain. Decision-making, in which large models play an important "role".
At the recently held Huawei Connected Conference 2023, Huawei launched a number of industry intelligent solutions, especially a large-scale government model solution for the government field. It empowers cities to become intelligent by building urban AI computing power infrastructure. Upgrade to drive rapid growth of the digital economy, achieve efficient government offices, convenient government services, and precise urban governance.
Among them, Guangzhou Baiyun District, through in-depth cooperation with Huawei, has achieved precise "embroidery" and "smart" management based on the Pangu Government Affairs Model. It can be said that it has brought more new value for reference and reference for the future intelligent upgrading of Chinese cities.
AI empowers smart city upgrades “at the right time”
Currently, large models have become a development trend, driving the rapid development of the entire AI industry. According to statistics from the McKinsey Global Institute report, AI, as a general-purpose technology leading the fourth industrial revolution, has contributed to the annual growth rate of global GDP by as much as 1.2%. This proportion far exceeds the driving effect of other general-purpose technologies in history. Therefore, AI has been promoted to a national strategic priority and the focus of technological competition, which will drive thousands of industries to achieve a "qualitative leap."
In particular, the explosion of generative AI represented by AIGC has made large AI models an important "new engine" in the upgrading of smart cities in the intelligent era and in digital government innovation. We can observe it from three dimensions :
First, AI large models are reshaping "digital cities" and empowering digital government affairs, digital economy, digital culture, digital society, and digital ecological civilization.
Indeed, AI large models (also called pre-training models, basic models, etc.) are the product of a typical combination of "big data + big computing power + strong algorithms". In the face of increasingly complex social problems, urban governance requires Decision-making relies on scientific data analysis, and the AI large model itself has excellent data integration capabilities and can incorporate data from various fields such as economy, society, environment, and people's livelihood, and provide accurate reference for government decision-making through analysis and simulation. For example, in urban planning, AI large models can help government management departments formulate optimal development strategies by simulating the effects of different planning plans.
Second, the AI big model is reshaping the "people-oriented" approach, allowing everyone to have expert assistants, making every job easier, and making every link such as clothing, food, housing, transportation, health, and education more efficient. Happiness.
In the era of intelligence, people will have higher and higher requirements for services, and large AI models can understand various needs and preferences through data analysis of individuals and enterprises, and provide personalized services based on this information. For example, the intelligent question answering, medical text structuring, and NL2SQL capabilities based on Huawei's Pangu model enable automatic understanding and extraction of medical reports, assisting doctors in providing better health services to citizens.
Third, AI large models empower cities to create better urban intelligence, making cities more intelligent, self-optimizing, and endlessly like living things, making cities perceptible, capable of thinking, warm, and able to evolve.
It can be seen that there are currently many application scenarios for urban governance, and with the deepening of construction, covering fragmented scenarios has become the focus of the next construction. The development of individual algorithms one by one will invest a lot of manpower and material resources, and the development cycle will be long. Therefore, how to solve long-tail scenarios in urban governance at low cost and efficiently is a challenge for current urban governance. In the future, opening up new paths for urban governance based on AI large models will not only better promote the development of digital cities, but also help Re-upgrading of urban intelligence.
There is no doubt that AI, as one of the country's "new infrastructures", has become one of the important technical means to promote urban intelligence. With the widespread application of AI large model technology and more advanced technologies in the construction of smart cities, cities The scientific, refined and intelligent level of governance will also be greatly improved, and more accurate, efficient and intelligent services will be provided for city managers, enterprises and residents. Its value is undoubtedly important and far-reaching.
Guangzhou Baiyunjing’s “embroidery” and “wisdom” theory practice
In this regard, Guangzhou Baiyun District can be said to be at the forefront of exploration and innovation. According to the "Top 100 Global Smiling Cities 2022-2023 China New Smart Cities (SMILE Index) Top 100 Results" released by the China International Fair for Trade in Services in 2023, Guangzhou ranked fifth in the world and second in the country. Among them, Guangzhou Baiyun District was selected into the top ten of the top 50 new smart cities in China (SMILE Index). This is the third consecutive year that Baiyun District has been rated as "China's Leading Smart City". Baiyun District's smart city construction work has been highly recognized again. And this is inseparable from the practice of "embroidery" and "intelligence" in Baiyun District, Guangzhou.
It is understood that Guangzhou Baiyun District has joined hands with Huawei to build a smart city in 2017 and promote the cloud migration of the district's government affairs systems. Currently, 30+ department units and 180+ government affairs business systems have been deployed to the district's government affairs cloud platform, including The district-wide shared digital infrastructure platform with multiple modules such as 10G optical fiber, video convergence, map module, big data platform, Internet of Things, urban application empowerment platform, and cloud server base builds a "one-screen view of the clouds and one-click connection" A new social governance pattern of "command, one department handle business, one network unified management".
As the saying goes: "If the foundation is not strong, the earth will shake." The same is true for smart city construction. The solid urban digital base stably supports the construction of smart applications in various business fields in Guangzhou Baiyun District, such as smart urban management, smart government affairs, smart education, smart medical care and other smart applications, effectively promoting the refinement of grassroots governance and the convenience of public services.
Taking smart urban management as an example, the administrative area of Baiyun District in Guangzhou accounts for about 1/10 of the entire city of Guangzhou. It has a permanent population of nearly 4 million, accounting for 1/5 of the city. It is the central city with the largest area and the largest resident population in the city. The urban form is diverse, urban and rural. Dualities coexist, urban management is complex, the workload is heavy, and problems are highly concentrated. In particular, the number of villages in the city exceeds 1/6 of the city, the daily domestic waste processing volume accounts for about 1/5 of the city, and the sanitation and cleaning area accounts for about 1/7 of the city. The task of controlling illegal construction accounts for 1/5 of the city. It can be said that urban governance is facing great challenges.
To this end, Guangzhou Baiyun District actively innovates the urban management model, uses the "big property management" model to promote efficient management of urban villages, and builds a new ecology of co-construction, co-governance and shared urban operation. Specifically, the Baiyun Smart Property Management Platform is built to enable urban components to have perception capabilities through tens of thousands of visual devices and weighing, odor, pm2.5, soil sensing and other equipment in the shared area, enabling real-time data upload and AI automation. Identification, in-depth data analysis and other functions achieve the purpose of interconnection and programmability of everything, laying a solid foundation for intelligent supervision, unified dispatch, decision support and all-round services. Data shows that since Baiyun Zhida Property Management went online, it has processed 800,000 work orders, with a daily processing volume of 5,000+.
Among them, in terms of gas security inspection, there have been more than 1.02 million security inspections in the past year, with an average of 3,000+ pieces of security inspection data per day, and 5,000+ pieces of hidden dangers dealt with. Currently, full coverage of security inspections for bottled gas users in Baiyun District has been achieved every four months. Potential safety risks have been effectively eliminated; in terms of sanitation fees, Guangzhou Baiyun District innovatively developed an sanitation fee system to collect fees through a mini program to achieve transparent sanitation fee amounts, full collection of receivables, and one-click payment; and in terms of sanitation compression station management, with the help of dynamic Sensing capabilities effectively prevent theft of garbage, and the amount of garbage has dropped by 300+ tons/day year-on-year. In addition, Guangzhou Baiyun District has adopted an innovative "sentinel" management method for residual mud checkpoints to make it "uncoverable" for violations.
In June this year, Guangzhou Baiyun District Urban Management Bureau joined hands with Huawei Cloud to establish the country's first large-scale government model laboratory, Pangu, to conduct comprehensive exchanges in multiple open scenarios such as urban management chaos management, garbage classification, and road occupation operations. In the field of urban governance, visual (CV) large models are used to dynamically perceive images of urban management issues within the jurisdiction, enabling instant discovery and immediate distribution of urban events; urban management interactive digital humans are combined with natural language (NLP) large models to achieve real-time analysis of government data. Interact and quickly generate decision-making suggestions to further achieve "cost reduction and efficiency improvement" in urban governance.
The relevant person in charge of the Urban Management Department of Baiyun District, Guangzhou said: "Through the cooperation with the Huawei Cloud Pangu large model, we have now rooted 11 original algorithms for garbage classification into the model, which can be improved more accurately with less material. Image analysis accuracy, thus greatly shortening the training time of the entire system."
Promote the continuous implementation of large-scale government models
In fact, the in-depth cooperation between Guangzhou Baiyun District and Huawei is just a "microcosm" of Huawei's continued implementation of large-scale government models.
On the first day of the Huawei Full Connectivity Conference 2023, at the "2023 Digital Economy Summit·City Smart Upgrade" themed forum, Huawei's Government One Network Army announced that it would join forces with partners to take the lead in government services, government offices, urban governance and other fields, and officially launched "Government Large Model Innovation Action" jointly creates innovative demonstration applications of large government models, jointly promotes the implementation of large models in the field of government affairs, fully enhances the public service capabilities of digital government and urban management and governance levels, and promotes the comprehensive construction of Digital China.
In this regard, it should be said that Huawei has laid a key foundation for the "last mile" of implementing large-scale government models through all-round innovation in technology, applications, and ecology.
First of all, in terms of technological innovation, Huawei has invested in the research and development of AI large models since 2019, and released Pangu Large Model 3.0 to the world in July this year. This is a large model series completely oriented to the industry. Among them, in the field of government affairs, the Pangu government affairs large model is oriented to specific application scenarios such as "one network for unified management, one network for collaboration, one network for all services, and one screen for overview". It takes into account both the local and global aspects and massive government affairs knowledge through hundreds of billions of parameters and super networks. Pre-training and multi-modal understanding and identification of all capabilities can provide five major government skills: government affairs hotline dialogue Q&A, government copy generation, city video perception, video multi-modal understanding, and open event discovery, building a structure from perception-cognition-processing-decision-making The full-process intelligent capabilities promote the accelerated implementation of "digital government affairs", continuously improve the efficiency of serving the people, and handle everything efficiently.
Secondly, in terms of practical applications, Huawei has currently launched a series of explorations and practices with Guangzhou Baiyun District and Shenzhen Futian District. In addition, Huawei's one-stop government service team has also joined hands with some city government affairs bureaus to launch a government service smart assistant based on the Pangu government model, changing the traditional one-stop service model and comprehensively improving the efficiency and experience of city services. Facing the future, Huawei will also further help cities build integrated, intelligent, and real-time urban intelligence systems and architectures with deep learning and self-evolution to achieve high-efficiency governance, high-quality development, and high-quality life in cities.
Finally, in terms of ecological cooperation, the "Government Large Model Innovation Action" launched by Huawei's Government Affairs Network Corps also sends a signal of open cooperation. As we all know, due to the extremely high cost of large model training, if large models want to penetrate into the government industry more quickly to generate value, their implementation needs to explore new paths and new methods as soon as possible. Huawei has joined forces with industry standards organizations, experts, and customers to "Jointly launch a joint innovation action with partners", focusing on promoting the development of joint innovation solutions for large models in government services, government offices, urban governance and other scenarios. This will undoubtedly accelerate the "last mile" of the implementation of large government models and help cities better embrace A large model of government affairs realizes the intelligent upgrading of the city.
In general, government affairs business is not only an important hub connecting the government, enterprises and citizens, but also a bridgehead for large model application and innovation. This time, Huawei launched the "Government Affairs Large Model Innovation Action", through the "practice of words" In this way, we actively work with all parties in the industry to jointly promote the implementation of the innovative demonstration application of the Pangu government affairs model. We believe that more warm and professional services will be provided in the field of urban government affairs and will contribute more to the process of promoting urban intelligent upgrading. the power of.
Shenyao's Technology Observation was founded by Shensky, a senior technology media person. He has 20 years of experience in enterprise-level technology content communication and has long been focused on the observation and thinking of industrial Internet, enterprise digitalization, ICT infrastructure, automotive technology and other contents.
