Robin Li: Baidu Brain is called 218.8 billion times a day, and AI products will usher in a big explosion

Once AI is awakened, its speed of self-evolution often exceeds human imagination. Baidu Brain, the artificial intelligence achievement that Baidu first showed to the outside world at the Baidu World Conference last year, is such a vivid example. On November 16, at the 2017 Baidu World Conference, Baidu founder Robin Li introduced in his speech: "Baidu Brain has been called 218.8 billion times internally and externally every day."

Such a huge number makes many people sigh that AI is really here. In Li Yanhong's view, the massive call of so many core capabilities every day shows that AI technology is gradually changing more and more vertical fields. "When you use various mobile apps, electrical appliances and various devices in your daily life, Baidu Brain may be at work behind them." AI is penetrating into every corner of people's lives, which means that AI hardware and application products will enter a period of explosive growth.

Baidu Brain, which integrates the four core capabilities of "voice, image, natural language processing and user portrait", is expanding its application scale as Baidu's open strategy is promoted. Robin Li said: "At present, we have opened more than 80 capabilities or APIs of Baidu Brain, and more than 370,000 developers are using various capabilities of Baidu Brain, including voice recognition, OCR, face recognition, knowledge graph, natural language understanding, user portrait and many other capabilities." With the participation of more and more partners, more users can enjoy the services provided by Baidu Brain.

At the conference, Robin Li also demonstrated Baidu Brain's application in the fields of speech, image, natural language processing and user portraits: on-site instant speech translation on screen, DuerOS TV human-computer interaction, mobile Baidu TTS and driver fatigue monitoring, etc. The breakthrough progress in core capabilities has made AI shine not only in public areas such as meetings and transportation, but also in thousands of households, allowing machines to truly learn, adapt and serve people.

Don't get too high yourself but make users high. Just as Robin Li mentioned Baidu's concept of technological innovation, with the technological advancement and extensive empowerment of Baidu Brain, intelligent technology is expected to practically and extensively change people's daily lives.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.