Technology: AI in China

it's an average day in the bustling Chinese city of Shenzhen but unlike most other mega cities across the globe you won't find many jaywalkers here that's because this city like others in China uses facial recognition software to dissuade pedestrians from crossing when they're not supposed to using strategically placed cameras at Troublesome intersections the city is able to detect jaywalkers and if you get caught then your image gets displayed on the nearby screen and a fine get sent right to your cell phone authorities say these cameras help prevent a leading cause of death this system by Shenzhen based company Intelli fusion is capable of identifying an individual in seconds the software works by creating a map of people's faces based on photos and videos they've shared on WeChat the technology reads your face by looking at unique individual identifies the company posts that its algorithm is over 99% accurate making zero mistakes for every 100,000 matches penalizing jaywalkers isn't it's only function gaze upon your basic oh I'm you see now that's all yo na didn't had a title sure particle finds in pathology found not in volume in the died French hung corner cDNA ideological mezzo should be neat about a green area that is a load even philosophers in sea turtle Shimon Hama is it have assumed names and was in deep ocean calculi if you're on Facebook or use your smartphone then you probably have seen and even use technology just like this to tag a photo or even to unlock your device just like the tech we use in our daily lives these cameras use artificial intelligence the cutting-edge technology looks to give computers the ability to perform higher-level computing mimicking human function its applications are many and as we see in Shenzhen it's playing an increasingly larger role in our society China an early adapter of artificial intelligence systems has been using this technology to bring its cities and industries into the future these cameras in Hangzhou are also a municipal duty where they serve as the eyes for city brain this cities high-tech nervous system cameras spread across the city monitoring traffic sidewalks and other public areas to help municipal functions by analyzing a large number of images with powerful cloud computing technology at AI these cameras help police fight the ever-growing problem of traffic somehow to do so well as the color cha can go down yeah i woman say Oh someone's at home sugar gets a little easier canceled on me oh you know shoot you don't know chocolate is insurgency we're showing to the watcher who truly come about through so many emotional trial yeah yo you either you cooperate on the cheer team and available to Don the truth now go officially so that see God want me to go into Saudi and his cities get smarter so do their public services this bus may appear to have a driver but look closer the drivers hands are on the wheel because they don't have to be artificial intelligence allows this bus to navigate the streets of sin Jen using a series of cameras and sensors much like what you would see in a Tesla the bus can navigate change lanes accelerate and even emergency brake all on its own the driver here acts as a safety in the event of system air buses aren't the only robots working in the service sector have a seat at your table use the app to place your order and have a robot deliver your food right to your table [Music] [Applause] this market may appear identical to others around the globe however it's run by tech giant Alibaba customers here don't use cash or credit instead shoppers walk through the many rows deciding what they want and ultimately paying within mobile phones this is not only convenient but it promises to cut down on food waste as markets can use data generated by purchases to determine just how much of each product they need the order [Music] ai is also being used to give the struggling world of traditional brick-and-mortar retail a facelift China is home to the world's second largest retail market consumers here spent five point six nine trillion u.s. dollars on retail in 2017 fifty eight point eight percent of its yearly economic expansion came from retail we are a computer vision company and this design actually represents an AI Mei long is a Shan giant company looking to bring the Information Age in the mortar retail through the u s-- avail you just simply click upload test photo its co-founder is Matt Scott a New Yorker who worked at Microsoft Asia before the company was founded we believe that AI is a technology that can be combined with traditional industries to really elevate them to the next level of their productivity so traditional retail has not seen that many technological advances in recent years but now it's starting to change their software allows computers to look at a product and categorize it by attributes such as design this one is in particularly fashion visual analysis this software also allows belong to branch out into the medical field with our technology we're able to reduce the amount of human labor that's needed to label images this is very useful for retail but also very useful for medical it helps to go past the issue of poorly label data or inconsistently label data so we've applied this technology to various tasks in medical image analysis and we've been able to get the highest performing results in the world based on academic benchmarks China is facing a major shortage of medical doctors despite its massive population there are only 1.5 doctors to every 1000 patients to supplement the shortage ai is being rolled out tough hospitals deep care is another AI firm in the fast-growing medical application field their CEO ping pong believes their tools will be able to give doctors across the country a helping hand contribution making it usually takes about five to 10 minutes for a human to read and understand in one slide but it only takes one to two minutes for for a five-day I pathologist to read one slide the company promises their products will not only help cut down on the workload but more importantly they'll help doctors to be more precise and accurate 200 years of knowledge of human doctor can be learned by the computer in several weeks yeah so that's the power China has shown great interest in the promise of artificial intelligence cities are investing in AI development through grants and specialty education programs the city of Tianjin for example set up a fund worth 16 billion US dollars to prop up the AI industry here at Shanghai Tech University students get rare hands-on experience under the helm of Professor saurons wart finger who joined the program from Germany I have a very nice very big in robotics lab I have lots of money for hardware and also excellent students robotics is really developing right now everywhere on the world and China is kind of a center of it because China is the biggest market for robots worldwide and also the fastest growing market so it's really the right place to be in China if you went to the robotics students get to tinker with cutting-edge robotic hardware and even an autonomous car we do road shows to universities and everyone is studying computer science [Music] everyone is studying artificial intelligence related areas and so there's just such a large pipeline of talents that are available it's very important to have the great talents and China is one of the best places to hire computer vision talents in particular what's on display today in China is still just the tip of the iceberg but an important step in future development when it comes to new technology China's really open also the people in China are very open to new technology you see this everywhere we are paying with smartphones and so on so that's a good thing for research and AI in China what's been impressive to me it's just how a AI has been doing such a good job on the benchmarks and now not just approaching human level performance on so many different benchmarks but actually exceeding it so what's really the future is not just human level performance but superhuman level with AI still in its infancy this technology promises to bring greater efficiency to all aspects of life you

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Length: 10min 2sec (602 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 27 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/[deleted]]

"over 99% accurate, with 0 mistakes for every 1000 matches". Ok, anyone who has ever deployed a machine learning model to production will call BS on that, right about now.

[u/pataoAoC]

> CGTN is funded in whole or in part by the Chinese government. Wikipedia

That's cool that YouTube is starting to label these propaganda pieces as such. The capability of an AI-powered surveillance state is breathtaking, and chilling. Power transition is impossible under those circumstances, the Chinese better hope they like their government forever.

[u/Root_Adam]

Best part 2:12 "attractiveness"

[u/casual_sinister]

No doubt China is doing a lot of great stuff in A.I but making 1.4 billion+ ppl part of your experiment is appalling.

[u/-p-a-b-l-o-]

200 years of medical research can be learned by the computer in a few weeks... yeah.

Haha love it