The third wave of artificial intelligence has arrived. Changhong Q5N builds the core hub of smart home

"If intelligence is not fully realized and human resources are not liberated, such smart home appliances can only be considered low-level intelligence or even pseudo-intelligence at best," said Lu Renbo, a home appliance industry research expert and deputy secretary-general of the China Electronic Commerce Association.

This is true for ordinary consumers. Today's "smart home appliances" may be more like a new toy that can be controlled by a mobile phone APP. Apart from the novel operation method, it does not actually bring much convenience and change to life.

On the one hand, there are many types of smart home appliances on the market, each with its own unique usage methods. The operation methods are not only cumbersome, but also inconvenient to use in coordination. On the other hand, many smart home appliances still rely on manual operation to complete tasks, which not only increases the user's learning cost, but also runs counter to the original intention of smart home appliances.

So, what is the root cause behind the current situation that China's smart home appliances are not "smart" enough?

The truth behind the immaturity and “unintelligent” nature of technology and standards

As people's living standards continue to improve, we are in the process of "consumption upgrading" and our requirements for smart home appliances have naturally changed accordingly.

At the same time, the market is now flooded with a variety of smart home appliances, from smart TVs and smart refrigerators to smart photo albums. However, the wild growth of the smart home appliance industry has made consumers feel that smart homes are not actually "smart".

First of all, for users, it is more appropriate to say that they are facing a variety of home appliance apps rather than a wide range of smart home appliance products. The lack of a unified operating standard between products will not only make the operation method cumbersome, but also greatly reduce the user experience due to product compatibility issues.

Secondly, voice control, one of the selling points of smart home appliances, has not improved the existing human-computer interaction environment. Most smart product control systems are currently unable to recognize semantics and require clear human instructions to operate. This not only fails to free up manpower, but also undermines the tone of the entire "smart" home appliance.

Perhaps, smart home appliances need a center to connect and interact in order to truly liberate manpower and improve efficiency.

Smart TVs with large screens and voice interaction will become the center of the home

In today's modern people's life, mobile phones occupy the mobile and fragmented time, while when we return to the family, the most time is spent on TV.

In particular, smart TVs, which were formed based on the impact of the Internet wave, have been sought after by consumers since their launch. It is not difficult to find that the popularity of smart TVs in the Chinese market is due to the fact that the rich content of smart TVs has captured the pain points of consumers, and on the other hand, smart TVs have the potential to represent the entire smart home appliance.

To be the center of the entire smart home appliance, you first need a screen that can carry all the information of the smart home appliances. Although mobile phones are convenient for control, it is still a bit difficult to display so much information on a small screen. Therefore, as the smart TV with the largest screen in the entire living room, it is definitely the best platform for realizing the unified scheduling of different smart products.

At the same time, smart TVs have hardware capabilities that other smart home appliances do not have, which means that the entire smart home appliance industry with smart TVs as the core will have a broader development space. The language interaction system developed to liberate manpower will also improve new algorithms due to the space available on hardware, and it is not far away to realize language interaction that enables autonomous learning, autonomous judgment, and autonomous decision-making.

Changhong, a traditional Chinese home appliance brand, has already sensed the development opportunities for smart TVs.

Changhong launches CHiQ series TV to create home artificial intelligence center

On March 28, at the 2017 Changhong Artificial Intelligence New Product Launch Conference held in Beijing, Changhong demonstrated its new smart home life solution, AI Center, centered on artificial intelligence TVs. Changhong AI Center, with new artificial intelligence TVs such as Q5N as the center, realizes the interconnection of refrigerators, air conditioners, air purifiers, audio, lighting, curtains, security, kitchen and other equipment, and provides users with a comprehensive smart life experience through large-screen TV display and intelligent voice control.

Su Zihuan, general manager of Changhong Multimedia Industry Company, said that based on the mature artificial intelligence voice interaction system, Changhong launched the world's first CHiQ artificial intelligence TV in 2016, which has the world's first adaptive, self-learning, and self-evolution capabilities and understands you more and more. The TV can respond instantly within 3 seconds when the user issues a voice command, and the comprehensive accuracy of voice recognition and semantic understanding reaches 97%. Its interactive fluency, artificial intelligence level, and cloud processing capabilities are industry-leading.

The launch of the artificial intelligence center with Changhong CHiQ TV Q5N as the core is a system upgrade based on the original artificial intelligence, and it is the first to bring artificial intelligence home life experience to consumers.

Return to the essence and make good products Q5N opens a new chapter in the future of artificial intelligence

Based on the voice interaction technology and big data operations that Changhong's artificial intelligence TV relies on, we can feel that Changhong's intention this time is to build Q5N into an artificial intelligence home platform that is personalized for each individual and connects everything, centered around "data," "hardware" and "algorithms."

Unlike other home appliance manufacturers who are obsessed with new hot spots, Changhong still chooses to persist in optimizing the algorithm of artificial intelligence and strives to return to the essence of making good products. The launch of Q5N is a reminder to the entire industry that the future development direction of artificial intelligence will still revolve around people-oriented development. Perhaps it is time to study the pain points of users in a down-to-earth manner.

In any case, Changhong's press conference will usher in a new chapter for artificial intelligence.

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.