At the beginning of September, Baidu, which was left by Alibaba and Tencent, wanted to make big news. A Baidu World Conference was grandly held in Beijing, which also opened the prelude to Baidu's promotion of artificial intelligence.

At this conference, Hu Ge became the focus of the audience.

No, no, artificial intelligence has become the focus of the audience.

Robin Li mentioned at the meeting that the next development direction of the Internet is artificial intelligence!

Li Yanhong said that "Baidu Brain" has developed relatively maturely and has made great progress in voice capabilities, image capabilities, natural language processing capabilities and user portraits.

The current "Baidu Brain" can not only simulate human voices through modeling, but also realize the super cool "face recognition" function.

But I just don’t know if Baidu, which advocates "artificial intelligence", understands that Hawking was wary of everyone being careful of artificial intelligence a few years ago?

Hawking said: The uncontrollability of artificial intelligence is very high, and once artificial intelligence develops too fast, human beings will face the problem of destruction.

We all know that humans have existed for tens of thousands of years. However, the fastest time of technological development has been in recent hundreds of years, and the speed of technological development is getting faster and faster.

For example, five hundred years ago, it may take a hundred years to invent one thing, but now people can invent one thing in a day. Why are people now so efficient in the same time dimension? This is because later generations always receive more knowledge than their predecessors, and the more knowledge they receive, the faster the development of technology will be.

The development of science and technology has never been 2 times 2, but 2 squared and 2 to the power of cube, and by the time 2 to the power of 10 is already an astronomical number.

Therefore, it is easy to foresee that the speed of technological development in the next decade will definitely be much faster than the speed of technological development in our past decade.

And artificial intelligence is like this. Although there are very few things that can be done now, once he can do more, the value he can create in the next day will be greater than the sum of the entire human race.

It sounds incredible, but artificial intelligence is actually standing on the shoulders of all of us humans. What a person can learn in his life is limited, but what an artificial intelligence can learn is infinite. It is terrible when all human data will gather his power in artificial intelligence.

And the most terrifying thing is that this power will develop faster and faster, just like the square of 2 I just mentioned. By the time he develops to the tenth power of 2, he is no longer something we can understand. Yes, just like an ant cannot understand humans, his wisdom and humans are no longer on the same level. At this time, we call artificial intelligence "super intelligence".

What can "super smart" do? It can be expected that we can't even imagine what super intelligence does. Just like an ant has no idea how human buildings were built.

Super intelligence is equivalent to God for us, because his learning speed is still accelerating. Once it appears, almost all human problems can be solved. Even immortality is not impossible.

How far do you think such super intelligence is from us? Not far away. The neutral view that scientists have developed is 50 years. Interested friends can check foreign literature and materials. There are already a lot of literature on artificial intelligence.

50 years later, when our generation is still alive, a high-intelligence creature that we cannot understand appears. At that time, humans will either die or gain eternal life. Because you don't know if you can control him.

This is why many scientific celebrities such as Hawking want us to be alert to artificial intelligence. Because the power of learning and data is infinite. The artificial intelligence studied by humans is essentially something beyond humans. No one can tell whether the future will be a blessing or a disaster.