It turns out that AI can be used in this way! Visit the AIGC Innovation Center in Turing Town and explore different artificial intelligence

【Science entry: AIGC】

This cool term is the abbreviation of Artificial Intelligence Generated Content, which means "generative artificial intelligence" in Chinese. Based on training data and generative algorithm models, it can autonomously generate and create new texts, images, music, videos, 3D interactive content and other forms of content and data, and is an important symbol of the transition from the AI ​​1.0 era to the 2.0 era.

There is a popular post on Zhihu called "How great is Turing". Alan Turing is a mathematician, logician and cryptographer. He is also one of the important figures in the field of computer science in the UK. He is honored as the "father of artificial intelligence". The Turing machine and Turing test he proposed laid the foundation for computer science and AI.

Across a hundred years of time and more than 10,000 kilometers of physical distance, there is a "Turing Town" in Zhejiang Province with the same name as Turing. It is located in the core area of ​​Qianjiang Century City in Hangzhou. As the name suggests, it is an industrial cluster centered on computer technology and artificial intelligence research.

Turing Town made its debut in 2017. Earlier this year, the AIGC Intelligent Computing Center, the core infrastructure of the AIGC Innovation Center in Turing Town, was officially put into use. The town now has the country's top intelligent computing capabilities, injecting strong momentum into the development of the smart Internet of Things and artificial intelligence industries in Hangzhou and even the entire Zhejiang Province.

Since the emergence of ChatGPT at the end of 2022, a new generation of artificial intelligence has been surging. AIGC is leading the profound transformation of productivity and production relations with its disruptive technological power. As a well-known digital economy and technological innovation highland in Zhejiang and even the whole country, it is leading an exploration and practice of "new quality productivity". What exactly is AIGC? How will it change the future? With these questions, on July 31, with the support of the Xiaoshan District Science and Technology Association and the Xiaoshan Service Station of the Provincial Digital Economy Society, the 2024 Zhejiang Provincial Science and Technology Association's "Entering New Quality Productivity" series of science popularization activities came to a new stop-Turing Town AIGC Innovation Center. This event is also an important stop of the "Smart Future Exploring the Light of Technology" science popularization special action. Hundreds of invited members of the public and netizens explored the mysteries of artificial intelligence together, deeply appreciated the magical charm of the intelligent computing center, and spent a creative science night together.

Intelligent computing interaction, quickly create a song and a painting

Experience the multi-dimensional charm of AIGC

"Come and try this!" "Press this!" "Wow!" In the exhibition hall of the Intelligent Computing Center, curious people of all ages stood in front of the interactive screen, scrambling to input AI commands, excitedly waiting for the results generated by AI, and constantly harvesting AI "blind boxes" full of unknowns but unlimited surprises. In the intelligent exhibition hall, you can hear "wow" sounds everywhere. Through this "walk-in" event, everyone got close to and understood how large models are trained through massive data sets, and personally experienced how AIGC technology reshapes productivity and production relations, and gives birth to new formats and models.

AI assistant, Lingxi Smart Painting, AI music creation, digital human, AI Hanfu punch-in... one interactive section after another kept attracting everyone. In the "AI Music Creation" area, the children rushed to enter the theme words of the music they wanted to make on the screen. Someone on the scene proposed to make a song "Walk into Turing Town and Light up the Light of Technology". In a few seconds, the music clip was immediately presented: "Wisdom blooms like a flower, and in the eyes of the children, there is a flash of curiosity...", and a song with a brisk melody was immediately generated. "Lingxi Smart Painting" is also very interesting. Everyone's imagination is open, and magical paintings are born in an instant. A child made a request to AI: replace Anne Hathaway's face with the face of Garen in League of Legends. The on-site staff exclaimed: Children's imagination is incredible now! That night, the AI ​​background also collected a lot of new data.

In the "Digital Human" section, Digital Human is like an encyclopedia, knowing everything from astronomy to geography, and all human knowledge is gathered in its "digital brain". Whether it is real-time weather information or existing scientific research results, it can respond immediately after receiving instructions, and it can really realize the integrated service of searching for all information without leaving home.

After several years of development, AI interaction is no longer limited to these contents. Looking at life, whether it is the special effects shooting of major short video platforms or the digital assistants in mobile phones, AIGC has penetrated deeply into all aspects of daily life. AIGC artificial intelligence systems are far from simple code stacking, but have the ability to create poetry, painting and music, showing the perfect integration of technology and humanities, and making our lives more "happy" with the "wisdom" of science.

Transition from the physical world to the digital world

The AI ​​era is full of opportunities and challenges

After experiencing the fun of AIGC in an immersive and experiential way, Fan Xin, senior researcher, top-level design expert, and chief solution architect of H3C Digital China Research Institute, brought everyone a wonderful science class - "Transformation and Innovation in the AI ​​Era".

In the course of thousands of years of historical evolution, information transmission has always been an important reliance for the evolution of the times. From the time-consuming and labor-intensive knotted ropes to record events, to the "3,000-mile express" document transmission, to the current wireless information sharing, the transmission of information has become extremely fast in the digital age. Today's artificial intelligence has already carried all human knowledge, and efficiently processes almost all human knowledge, and has even begun to create new knowledge on its own.

Fan Xin told everyone about the development history of artificial intelligence, and the audience listened intently. In fact, the birth of artificial intelligence is much earlier than we imagined. In 1956, a group of the world's top people, including Nobel Prize winners, gathered at Dartmouth in the United States for a meeting. These smart brains discussed a question: how to use machines to imitate human learning and other intelligence, and first proposed "artificial intelligence". This year was named the first year of artificial intelligence; in 1997, the Deep Blue computer defeated the chess king Kasparov; in 2016, the artificial intelligence "AlphaGo" defeated the Go genius Lee Sedol, and defeated humans in the most complex and brain-burning game of Go; in 2007, artificial intelligence had "eyes" for the first time; with the development of IoT perception technology, artificial intelligence also has five senses like humans; in 2020, artificial intelligence surpassed humans in scientific research, that is, it surpassed humans in protein disassembly structure prediction, which shows that AI at this time has surpassed human intelligence; in 2022, the emergence of chatGPT shocked the world. The AIGC trend is rolling in like the Qiantang River tide and is unstoppable.

The power of AI is far more powerful than we think, and its application areas are also very wide. It can empower thousands of industries - culture, economy, government affairs, law enforcement, military, ecology, artificial intelligence can do everything. Compared with manual labor, artificial intelligence has greatly reduced the creative cost of cultural workers and increased the creative space; improved product manufacturing efficiency and accelerated the rate of industrial development; reduced the paperwork burden of government officials and improved people's quality of life. It can be seen that AI is indeed very competitive in terms of work efficiency, manufacturing precision, and creative creativity. Today, the AI ​​wave has arrived, and we are also in a major change that has not been seen in a century. At this moment of technological revolution comparable to the eighteenth century, there are rare surprises and opportunities everywhere.

During the interactive session, many children boldly raised their own questions about artificial intelligence. Will artificial intelligence help disabled people become healthy? When man and machine are truly integrated, is this "it" a man or a machine? With the rapid development of artificial intelligence, some jobs have begun to be replaced by artificial intelligence. While there are many opportunities, there are also challenges. When technology encounters ethical issues, where should we as humans go?

Fan Xin also gave his own wise answer - at present, artificial intelligence is the commanding height of global technological competition and the core of the technological struggle between major countries. Perhaps "controlling AI" is the way out for mankind. "We should not be coerced by AI, but use AI for our own benefit and let it firmly serve mankind. The value of human beings as advanced creatures lies in our thinking. Thinking cannot be stopped and should not be stopped. AI is a tool for carrying knowledge, not the master of knowledge." It is the ripples of thinking of countless sages in the long river of history that have created today's wave. Times are changing and unstoppable. Musk's SpaceX will surely bring mankind into the "big space" era, GPT will bring mankind into the intelligent era, and the development of the metaverse will also lead mankind to the digital space. With the blessing of AIGC, in the future, perhaps we will ride on the power of digital to jump between reality and virtuality, migrate between the past and the future, and shuttle between the stars.

【AI+Empowerment】

·culture

From text to pictures, while the creativity is endless, it also greatly reduces the creative costs of cultural workers and helps people expand their limited creative sources.

·economy

It has brought new vitality to the economy. For example, in the future factory in Xiaoshan, AI+smart manufacturing, 52 robotic arms dance together under the command of the AI ​​brain. There is also 500 visual intelligence images per second, and 32,400 components can be assembled in 1 minute without any mistakes, freeing people from heavy physical labor.

Emergency rescue

Various unmanned robotic equipment, such as swarm drones and robot dogs, make rescue operations faster and safer.

[“Entering the New Productivity” series of popular science activities]

With the rapid development of science and technology, new productivity is reshaping our world at an unprecedented speed. Zhejiang Association for Science and Technology actively responds to the call of the times and strives to create a series of popular science activities called "Entering New Productivity", aiming to deepen the popular science education of young people, relying on Zhejiang Province's unique "315" scientific and technological innovation system and forward-looking "9+6" future industrial layout, leading the public to step into the forefront of science and technology, perceive the charm of science and technology, improve the scientific literacy of the whole people, and jointly draw a blueprint for innovative development.

In 2024, the Zhejiang Provincial Science and Technology Association launched a series of science popularization activities called "Entering New Productivity", which explored a new paradigm of science popularization: starting from the industry, by entering specific scenes and sites, making science and technology visible, tangible, and around us. With rich and diverse experiential and immersive science popularization forms, it builds a bridge between the public and cutting-edge technology, and jointly explores the innovative context of eight future industries, including synthetic biology, gene editing, brain science and artificial intelligence, hydrogen energy storage, aerospace information, ground-air integration, metaverse, deep earth and deep sea.