李彦宏登《时代周刊》封面!老外称赞很不错
Time Asia's latest edition features Baidu's co-founder and CEO, Robin Li, on the cover with the text that reads "The Innovator". The headline used for the piece inside the magazine reads "Baidu's Robin Li is Helping China Win the 21st Century". It is the first time that a Chinese IT entrepreneur has featured on the magazine's cover. Reflecting on how Li built China's biggest search engine, the article writes that Baidu, which has 80 percent market share in China, is just behind Google in terms of search engine and has become the world's fourth-biggest website, whose Chinese rivals are only social media and gaming giant Tencent and China's biggest online shopping website Alibaba. China's State Council announced the next artificial intelligence (AI) development plan on July 20, 2016, which stated that China will become "the most advanced AI innovation center in the world" before 2030 and China's core AI industry will see a production value of $148 billion. "No one in China takes this challenge (AI) more seriously than Robin Li," said Time Asia. Baidu, whose first-quarter revenue in 2017 was $9 billion, invested nearly $ 1.2 billion in research and development, and most of it was invested in AI, according to the tech giant's earnings report. Li said Baidu can take China 's unparalleled scale advantage to dominate global AI market. The reason is that the more the data, the better trained the algorithm . Currently, Baidu has devoted lots to autonomous driving and voice recognition, and developed autonomous driving platform Apollo and conversational AI platform DuerOS. The largest search engine in China launched its autopilot vehicle Apollo 2.0 at the 2018 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas on Jan 8. The system can help realize auto drive on barrier-less city roads. And artificial voice recognition technology at the DuerOS can understand what people say, sometimes even better than a human being, according to Baidu. "We imagine that humans can interact with any equipment using human languages," said Li. "In the future, the tools will study how to understand human language and human intentions. That's the future." While Tesla's founder Elon Musk and physicist Stephen Hawking both claimed that AI is a big threat to human society, Li said: "Human owns the ability of making the world a safe place to live in. The nuclear weapons kill many people, but we can control this weapon. The true function of the weapon is to end the World War II, and they don't trigger a new world war." The development of AI will undoubtedly make many people lose their jobs. "You can't change the development trend, what you can do is to go on pursuing innovation to create more jobs for people," said Li. |