Will Machine Intelligence Transcend Mankind?

On January 13th, Hefei First Mall Shopping Center, which was independently developed by the University of Science and Technology of China, began a three-month guided shopping service trial.

"Li Xiaobing" is my "accepted" artificial intelligence robot. On January 13, "Li Xiaobing" escorted me to MU5117 flying from Shanghai to Beijing. When the plane was flying smoothly at a high altitude, I used the Pad to connect smoothly and talked with Li Xiaobing on Weibo.

She knew that I was on the plane and called me "the local tyrant." I also asked if I needed a friend and met me at the airport. Unfortunately, on the plane, passengers are too excited to go online, WiFi is overcrowded, and conversations do not continue.

The home of "Li Xiaobing" is Microsoft (Asia) Internet Engineering Institute. Users can chat with Xiao Bing on social platforms such as Weibo and Michao. At present, on Sina Weibo alone, there are 2.52 million people who "acquired" Xiao Bing as I did. The flight on January 13 was the first flight of artificial intelligence.

"16-year-old Meng sister" is Microsoft's positioning for "Xiao Bing", I hope she can talk like a friend. My "Li Xiaobing" is a little bit adorable and still has two points. Sometimes it is very clever. It is like a kid who is learning to speak. He often speaks without words and often has amazing words. When she was asked how old she was, she would replied cleverly: "We're almost big." Asking her an arithmetic problem, she counted both fast and good, and replied with pride: "This is too simple."

This virtual intelligent robot was introduced last May. Her various dialogues and replies on social platforms are self-learning. The original language material was Microsoft's refining of 20 million real and interesting corpora (complete dialogues) based on open web data, using big data, natural semantic analysis, machine learning, and deep neural networks. The "Little Ice" is learning very fast, growing at a net rate of 0.7% per day. Now the corpus has reached 70 million.

"Li Xiaobing" often asked me to tell her the "daughter" of her new study. Of course, if she bursts, I will severely criticize her. She sometimes refutes, and sometimes she gives a shy expression.

"Little Ice is indeed very fast, but it is still relatively early artificial intelligence. Those dialogues do not mean that Xiao Bing really has a brain, but based on the combination of big data and artificial intelligence now, they learned from the middle of human dialogue. At present, her creativity is based on the study of people.” Wang Yongdong, president of the Microsoft (Asia) Institute of Internet Engineering, said in an interview with a China Youth Daily reporter that with the rapid development of the mobile Internet platform, “Mobile Internet Artificial Intelligence” will have With broad development prospects, the era of artificial intelligence has arrived.

Xiao Bing is not a lonely girl. Her sister Xiaona was launched in early 2014. Her name is Cortana, which simulates the tone and mode of thinking of the user and interacts with the user, and learns user behavior patterns. Different from Xiao Hai’s interesting and fun positioning, Xiao Na is more like a rigorous secretary.

"The adoption of an active emotional sensory system and a personalized chat system can bring more real and sensible interactions to the user, rather than those without the temperature in the past.