On October 18, 2017, the opening ceremony of the 19th National Congress of the CPC was held at the Great Hall of the People. Xi Jinping, on behalf of the 18th Central Committee, made a report to the Party’s 19th National Congress.

The full text of the report was more than 30,000 words, and Mr. Xi spoke for 3.5 hours. With the “artificial intelligence craze” that has been on the rise in the past two years, Mr. Xi has also written “AI” into his report in this Congress.

As one of the most representative and breakthrough scientific and technological forces in recent years, artificial intelligence is undoubtedly an important part of China’s technological development. As early as July this year, the State Council issued a “new generation of Artificial Intelligence development Plan”, set the power of the whole nation, seize the commanding heights of artificial intelligence!

Why did the country spend so much on artificial intelligence?

Full intellectualization is coming, AI will surpass human

Not long ago, the Facebook lab burst two of artificial intelligence, communicating successfully in a language that humans could not understand.

In a world where we are unaware, artificial intelligence is reading our sky data and iterating through the day and night to evolve itself. Our human brain, which evolved over millions of of years, is being easily defeated by artificial intelligence in various fields.

In today’s world, almost all businesses add smart two words. For example: intelligent manufacturing; Intelligent agriculture; Intelligent Logistics; Smart Finance; Intelligent business; Smart home and so on. Behind this intelligence, not only represents the industry’s major changes, but also indicates that more of us will be in the future or be replaced by artificial intelligence.

Global AI talent battle continues to escalate

Artificial intelligence in the Internet and investment industry, from academia, the industry’s top laboratories, to the global college graduates, has become a global science and technology companies to snatch talent resources battlefield.

The artificial intelligence data report shows that North America has about 100,000 of the jobs needed for AI development last year, while there are only 30,000 developers in the talent market. This phenomenon directly led the global science and technology giants to join in the Battle of artificial intelligence talent.

Tang Ruisi, a global managing partner at McKinsey, sees a significant increase in investment, which has increased by 7 times-fold since 2011-2016 for the acquisition of artificial intelligence by large companies, and by 5 times times the amount of mergers and acquisitions in 2016 compared with 2011.

In China, the field of artificial intelligence, the imbalance between supply and demand of professionals is more serious, the ratio of supply and demand is close to 1:10. Domestic enterprises Baidu, Tencent, drops, etc. to set up the form of research institutes, to kill into the U.S. High-tech Center Silicon Valley, and Google, Amazon, Microsoft and other enterprises to launch a fierce scramble for talent.

Artificial intelligence development ushered in inflection point

In fact, behind the battle for talent, the artificial intelligence in the background of globalization is ushering in an unprecedented upsurge.

This year, the world’s major internet giants have launched their own artificial intelligence products and technologies, 2017 also known as the development of artificial intelligence inflection point.

The global AI venture has surged from $589 million in 2012 to $ more than 5 billion in 2016, according to data. The market value of artificial intelligence applications is expected to reach $127 billion by 2025. More importantly, this time of technological innovation, artificial intelligence really out of the laboratory came to the market.

President of IBM China Research Institute Shen Xiaowei: AI is very important to the integration with the industry, whether it is environment, energy, health care, education, finance, etc., in 2017, 1 billion people worldwide will benefit from the application of artificial intelligence.

Li Deyi, director of the Chinese Academy of Artificial intelligence, sees that once China captures the opportunity, the future of artificial intelligence will have far more impact than the computer and Internet have changed over the past decades.

Director of the Chinese Academy of Artificial Intelligence Li Deyi,: Artificial Intelligence technology is a silent into the human society, it is not like before the steam turbine atomic energy so earth-shattering, to a little something. So, when did AI change society? I can say, it’s already changing.