At present, the development of artificial intelligence has entered a new stage. Experts said that after more than 60 years of evolution, especially under the impetus of new theories and technologies such as mobile Internet, big data, supercomputing, sensor network and brain science, and the strong demand of economic and social development, artificial intelligence has accelerated its development, showing new features such as deep learning, cross-border integration, human-computer collaboration, open intelligence and autonomous control, which are triggering chain breakthroughs and promoting rapid leap from digitalization and networking to intelligence in all fields of economy and society.

From a technical point of view, artificial intelligence is the product of the combination of software and hardware. Wang Haifeng, senior vice president of Baidu, said that the real artificial intelligence system involves voice, image, semantics, knowledge, underlying big data processing and so on, and is actually a comprehensive application of various technologies. Brain-like intelligence stimulated by brain science research results is ready to go, and the trend of hardware platform chip is more obvious, which is also an important feature of the development of artificial intelligence entering a new stage.

The accelerated accumulation of technical ability combined with massive data resources, huge application demand and open market environment has formed the unique advantages of artificial intelligence development in China. According to statistics, as of last year, China has made important progress in the field of artificial intelligence, with the number of international scientific papers published and the number of invention patents ranking second in the world, and important breakthroughs have been made in key core technologies in some fields. Speech recognition and visual recognition technology are leading the industry. Chinese information processing, intelligent monitoring, biometrics, industrial robots, service robots and unmanned driving have gradually entered practical applications. Artificial intelligence innovation and entrepreneurship have become increasingly active, and a number of leading enterprises have accelerated their growth, which has gained wide attention and recognition in the world.