Opening of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC 2023), Jointly Creating the World's Top Artificial Intelligence Event

At the opening ceremony, Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of Tesla, gave a speech about his AI innovation in the new era of general artificial intelligence, and introduced the latest exploration of his team in the frontier technology field of AI, as well as the latest applications in vertical fields such as humanoid robots and automatic driving. He said that the ratio of computers to humans is rapidly increasing every year, which means that the computing power gap between machines and organisms is further widening

At the opening ceremony, Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of Tesla, gave a speech about his AI innovation in the new era of general artificial intelligence, and introduced the latest exploration of his team in the frontier technology field of AI, as well as the latest applications in vertical fields such as humanoid robots and automatic driving. He said that the ratio of computers to humans is rapidly increasing every year, which means that the computing power gap between machines and organisms is further widening. This will lead to fundamental changes and have a profound impact on future human civilization. Therefore, the present is the most critical period for human civilization.

In a dialogue with Yu Kai, founder and CEO of Horizon, Yann LeCun, winner of the Turing Award and chief AI scientist of the MetaAI Basic Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) team, known as the "Three Musketeers of Deep Learning", described his innovative approach to the challenge of AI ethics and governance requirements in the future, and pointed out that open source is the only way to make AI platforms safe, good and practical.

Professor Tang Xiao'ou of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, as an old friend who participated in the first conference, introduced a series of recent research achievements of the team under the theme of "Hello, Shanghai". Not long ago, his team just won the best paper award at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR2023). This achievement is one of the three top conferences in the field of global machine vision, and the first author is the top achievement of Chinese scholars. He also mentioned that their team has recently built the world's first city level 3D realistic large model, CityNeRF, based on NeRF 3D light field modeling technology. Finally, he used the lines from the movie "Hello Teacher" to express Shanghai, "I didn't meet you at the best time, but I met you and had this best time

Not only that, but also the premiere of the opening ceremony's major innovative achievements released the scholar's universal big model system, Fudan University's digital twin brain, Zhangjiang SUPERCITY, and Fourier's universal humanoid robot GR-1.

The SAIL award (SuperAILeader, Outstanding AI Leader), the highest award of the world AI conference, was also officially announced at the opening ceremony. The research team of Comac, Huawei Cloud Computing, Qualcomm, Jingtai Intelligent Pharmaceutical, and Zhang Yunwei of Cambridge University jointly won the award.

With the technology wave triggered by this round of big models, AIGC, and new intelligent technologies, AI has ushered in a new "iPhone moment", giving birth to a group of globally popular new applications and innovative enterprises. More and more young Chinese innovators are emerging in this process.

Yang Zhilin, founder of AI startup Moonshot AI and assistant professor at Tsinghua University, discussed his philosophy of innovation and achievement transformation. He said that there are still many unresolved issues with large models. When thinking about them, it is more important not to rely on single point thinking, but to systematically abstract the underlying commonalities of these problems and return to a more fundamental level to solve them.

Pan Xingang, the first author of DragGAN and assistant professor of the School of Computer Science and Engineering of Nanyang Technological University, who has recently attracted global attention, mentioned in the dialogue that AI is becoming the basis for broader creative applications. In the future of video and 3D content generation, the algorithm he invented will have great prospects, helping designers, artists, animators, and film and television special effects artists to better and more efficiently create higher quality content.

Yuan Yang, an assistant professor at the School of Cross Information at Tsinghua University, explained the key to the implementation and application of large models, as well as the core issues in deepening the cross industry field. He stated that it is crucial to collect sufficient data based on modal completion.

At the same time, in order to jointly build a better AI ecosystem, the Big Model Corpus Data Alliance, the Big Model Test Verification and Collaborative Innovation Center, and the Digital transformation Industry Fund of Shanghai Zhongyi were inaugurated at the opening ceremony of the conference, which will help Shanghai build a higher quality AI industry development ecosystem.

As a stage to connect the wisdom of the world and give voice to China, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization Global Alliance for Industrial and Manufacturing Artificial Intelligence was officially established at the opening ceremony of WAIC2023. At the same time, the "United Nations Industrial Development Organization International Center of Excellence for Industrial and Manufacturing Artificial Intelligence Development" was released, making Shanghai more deeply involved in international artificial intelligence cooperation in the context of the development and change of new generation AI technology, An important platform for jointly building a better form of human civilization.

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