On the morning of the 24th, the State Council Information Office held a series of press conferences on the theme of "Comments from Authoritative Departments", introducing "In-depth implementation of the innovation-driven development strategy and accelerating the construction of a technologically powerful country". Regarding how to view artificial intelligence-driven technologies including ChatGPT, Minister of Science and Technology Wang Zhigang and others responded at the meeting.
The media questioned that recently, ChatGPT has aroused widespread repercussions in China. How does the Ministry of Science and Technology view this artificial intelligence-driven technology, and what considerations does the Ministry of Science and Technology have in terms of supervision?
Minister of Science and Technology Wang Zhigang responded that ChatGPT itself is a large model with big data, big computing power, and strong algorithms. ChatGPT has indeed made progress in natural language understanding and natural language processing. At the same time, it has promoted an effective combination of algorithms, data, and computing power.
Wang Zhigang said that our country has adopted some corresponding measures in terms of ethics for any new technology, including AI technology, to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages in the development of science and technology, so as to make better use of the benefits.
Chen Jiachang, director of the High-tech Department of the Ministry of Science and Technology, said that artificial intelligence, as a strategic emerging technology, has increasingly become an important driving force for technological innovation, industrial upgrading and productivity improvement. Human-computer dialogue based on natural language understanding is an important direction for the development of artificial intelligence. ChatGPT has recently formed a phenomenon-level application, showing a high level of human-computer interaction. Some characteristics of artificial intelligence have broad application potential in many industries.
Chen Jiachang pointed out that in terms of the development trend of artificial intelligence, there are two very obvious characteristics. One is that artificial intelligence has a permeable, diffuse and subversive effect on the development of society and economy. Especially on the scientific research side, artificial intelligence provides new methods and new approaches for some research in biological science, material science, and energy science, and is leading the paradigm shift in scientific research.
Second, driven by the Internet, big data, supercomputing, intelligent computing, and brain and cognition-related technologies, the field of artificial intelligence is developing rapidly, showing a trend of group breakthroughs, especially the paradigm of "intelligence +", which is It has been widely used in transportation, medical and other fields. In some black lamp factories, the process is highly automated and intelligent, which greatly improves the energy efficiency of production. In the medical field, the artificial intelligence-assisted diagnosis and treatment system covers more than 3,000 common diseases and has been applied in more than 27,000 primary medical institutions, showing that artificial intelligence has great penetration.
Chen Jiachang said that from the perspective of our country's R&D layout and progress, the Chinese government attaches great importance to artificial intelligence. In 2017, the State Council formulated the "New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan". The Intelligent Governance Professional Committee has also formulated the "New Generation Artificial Intelligence Governance Principles" and "Ethical Standards" in the past two years, launched major artificial intelligence technology projects, and determined that "basic software and hardware" should be the main body, "basic theory" and " "Innovative application" is the "one body and two wings" R&D layout of two wings. At the same time, relying on leading enterprises, some artificial intelligence open innovation platforms have been established. On the one hand, it will drive the development of small and medium-sized enterprises, and on the other hand, it will increase the technological progress of the entire industry.
my country has built 18 national innovation and development pilot zones, encouraging localities to adapt to local conditions and develop application scenarios with local characteristics. From the perspective of progress, domestic scholars have proposed the theory of "neuromorphic completeness" and developed a heterogeneous fusion brain-like chip. The technical level has also reached the international advanced level.
Chen Jiachang said that in the next step, the Ministry of Science and Technology will continue to give strong support to artificial intelligence as a strategic emerging industry and a new growth engine. The first is to promote the construction of an open and collaborative artificial intelligence innovation system, and accelerate basic theoretical research and major technological breakthroughs. The second is to promote the deep integration of artificial intelligence and the economy and society, temper technology in major application scenarios, upgrade and iterate, and cultivate the market. The third is to promote the establishment of a safe and controllable governance system for artificial intelligence. The fourth is to promote open cooperation in artificial intelligence in an all-round way.
