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Let's take a look at what has happened in the Internet circle recently.

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Internet hotspots

one、Boao Forum for Asia: China's e-commerce sales rank first in the world in 2022

On March 28, the annual meeting of the Boao Forum for Asia opened in 2023. According to the Asian Economic Prospect and Integration 2023 Annual report, Asia's digital trade in services grew by 16.46% in 2021 compared with the same period last year, and its share in the world continues to rise. In the same year, China, India and Singapore ranked fifth, sixth and ninth respectively among the top 10 exports of digital services in the world. In 2022, China, Japan, South Korea, India and Indonesia ranked sixth, seventh and ninth among the top 10 countries in e-commerce sales. Global tourism begins to recover in 2021, but it will not return to pre-epidemic levels in 2019. Tourism in the Asia-Pacific region has suffered even more, with the number of inbound visitors in 2021 being only 7% of what it was before the epidemic. In 2022, Asian economies will continue to adjust epidemic prevention and control measures, and immigration controls will be further relaxed. China's resumption of outbound tourism will strongly stimulate the recovery of the tourism market in Asia, especially in ASEAN.

2、Zhou Hongyi: it is expected that GPT6~8 will produce consciousness, and the only people who will be eliminated are those who can't use GPT.

At the 2023 China Development High-level Forum, Zhou Hongyi predicted that artificial intelligence from GPT-6 to GPT-8 will generate consciousness and become a new species. As GPT has evolved the ability of "hands" and "feet" to manipulate the world by accessing the Internet API. The gap between the technical level of China's big language model and GPT-4 is 2 to 3 years. At present, the technical direction of GFT has been clear, and there are no insurmountable technical obstacles. China should adhere to the spirit of long-term doctrine and catch up.

3、Google and DeepMind put aside past grievances and work together to catch up with ChatGPT.

OpenAI not only overtook Google with its artificial intelligence chat robot, but also unexpectedly contributed to another almost impossible thing: forcing the two artificial intelligence research teams of Alphabet's flagship subsidiary Google and artificial intelligence laboratory DeepMind to put aside years of feud and decide to join hands to catch up with OpenAI.

4、 CAIDP called on FTC to investigate OpenAI and asked to suspend the commercial deployment of GPT-4

According to Sina Finance, the non-profit research organization CAIDP (Center for artificial Intelligence and Digital Policy) publicly filed a complaint with FTC on Thursday, asking the agency to investigate OpenAI and suspend the commercial deployment of its large language models, including its popular tool ChatGPT. The complaint alleges that OpenAI violated the Federal Trade Commission Act, accusing GPT-4 of being biased, deceptive and posing a risk to privacy and public safety. The organization hopes that FTC will require OpenAI to establish a method to independently evaluate GPT products before they are deployed in the future, and to create a public incident reporting system for GPT-4. It hopes that the agency will take rule-making initiatives to set standards for the generation of artificial intelligence products.

5 、BaiduShen Qiu: generative AI will bring new careers, and more than 50% of people want to be "instructors"

BaiduGroup Executive Vice President,BaiduShen Qiu, president of the smart cloud business group, said at the Boao Forum for Asia, "the emergence of generative AI will gradually divide enterprises into intelligent enterprises and non-intelligent enterprises." Unintelligent enterprises will gradually be eliminated, and new giants will be born. " Shen believes that generative AI will bring about a very large-scale new career. In the future, more than 50% of people will become "instructors", and the disappearance of a wave of careers will certainly lead to another wave of new careers.

6 、 The ChatGPT-like model "Zi Yue" under the first educational scenario will be launched. NetEase youdao said that internal testing will be opened in the near future.

NetEase youdao announced at the Boao Forum for Asia that his self-developed ChatGPT-like model under the educational scene will be launched in the near future, and the name of the model will be "Zi Yue". The AI oral English teacher and Chinese composition correction DEMO developed based on "Zi Yue" have been completed and internal tests will be opened in the near future. It is understood that this will also be the first ChatGPT-like model under the educational scenario launched by domestic enterprises.

7 、Solve the plug-in function of ChatGPT online with mathematical calculation

On March 24th, OpenA announced the launch of plug-ins, giving ChatGPT the ability to use tools, connect to the Internet, and run computing. These include OpenAl's own two plug-ins: a web browser and a code interpreter. In the past, without networking, users could only query messages before September 2021, but now they can not only directly retrieve the latest rooms, but also solve the mathematical calculations together. In addition, OpenAl also announced support for new third-party plug-ins for ChatGPT or the equivalent of Apple's App Store moment. The first available plug-ins include hotel flight reservations, takeout services, online shopping, legal questions and answers, text-generated voice, and Zapier for connecting different products.

8 、Horizon Yu Kai: GPT is forming machine hegemony, and humans are kept in captivity by machines and algorithms, calling for the promotion of Al computing equality.

On March 29th, Horizon founder and CEO Yu Kai wrote on his Wechat moments that AGI is out of control and will bring great risks to mankind, calling for the promotion of equality in Al computing. He believes that GPT, a large model based on central computing, is forming a machine hegemony, the data is one-way transparent, the model is elusive, and IQ crushes over human beings, resulting in human beings having no right to control their own data and privacy, thinking more and more shallow, indulging in the sensory satisfaction brought by powerful algorithms, and human beings are more and more captive by machines and algorithms. Human beings should not only fully enjoy the value brought by Al, but also be able to control their own data, protect their privacy, transparently interfere with the behavior of various AGl models, and control the risks brought by AGl. "We have to fight for this for at least 20 years. Yu Kai said.

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Trends of large companies

Tencent

1、Wechat will launch the ask-and-ask function.

2023 Wechat open course PRO Wechat appointment live broadcast, Wechat search related official said that Wechat will soon launch in "search" new function "ask questions", encourage users to ask questions, creators to answer, at the same time users can follow the creator, like the answer forwarded. Excellent Q & A content will be included and presented through Wechat search.

2、Wechat tries to pay by browsing palms.

2023 Wechat Open course PRO Wechat appointment officially opened in Guangzhou the persons in charge of important application components, such as Video number, WeChat Pay, Mini Program, Sou Yisou, WeCom, respectively introduced the latest progress of their respective business. Zhang Ying, vice president and head of WeChat Pay of Tencent, said WeChat Pay began to experiment with the "Wechat brushing palm" service. The user binds the membership card, campus card, traffic card, ticket electronic code and so on to the palm of the hand to verify the membership identity, convenient consumption and gate access. At present, merchants are gradually invited to jointly create brushing application scenarios.

3、Tang Daosheng, senior executive vice president of Tencent: Tencent is developing ChatGPT chat robots.

Tang Daosheng, senior executive vice president of Tencent Group and CEO of Cloud and Wisdom Industry Group, said Tencent is developing ChatGPT-like chat robots. "there will be both," Tang Daosheng said, as to whether Tencent's chat robots are integrated into QQ and Wechat, or whether they serve B-end users through Tencent Cloud. " With regard to the topic of the next generation Internet, Microsoft, byte beat, Meta, byte beat and other technology companies have all shrunk the team of VR/XR. How to treat the all-real Internet and meta-universe seems to be gradually fading. Tang Daosheng said that XR is just a form of meta-universe, in which there are many different applications, not wearing a helmet to block the eyes.

Baidu

1、 BaiduRelease of enterprise-level large model platform "Wen Xin Qianfan", including a full set of Wen Xin large model development tool chain, charged by the number of words output

March 27 news, in the first batch of Wenxin one word Cloud Service Invitational testing Enterprise closed door Communication meetingBaiduWenxin Qianfan, the world's first one-stop enterprise-level large model platform, is a platform for providing enterprise-level large language model services to customers. Wenxin Qianfan reasoning service charges 0.012 yuan / 1000 tokens according to the total number of words called input and output.BaiduShen Qiu, president of Smart Cloud, demonstrated the demo in five scenarios, including government services, financial services, corporate offices, e-commerce services and tourism services. It is reported that the large model platform of Wenxin Qianfan includes Wenxin,BaiduThe full set of Wen Xin big model, the corresponding development tool chain, in the future, Wen Xin Qianfan will also support the third-party open source big model.

Amazon

1、Amazon's latest round of layoffs involving 9000 employees has officially begun.

According to market news, Amazon officially launched its latest round of layoffs involving 9000 employees on Friday, according to three laid off employees. Sectors that have been hit by this round of layoffs include Amazon Web Services, advertising, human resources and streaming site Twitch. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said on Monday that Amazon plans to complete the current round of layoffs by the end of April.

Microsoft

1、Microsoft threatens search engine competitors: the newly launched AI tool is not allowed to use Bing database, otherwise access is restricted

Microsoft has threatened to block access to Microsoft's Internet search data if search engine competitors continue to use Microsoft's Internet search data as the basis for their Al chat products, according to people familiar with the matter. It is reported that Microsoft has informed at least two customers that the use of Bing search index database to provide information for its Al chat tool violates the terms of the contract, and Microsoft may terminate the license to access the database to these companies.

2、Microsoft released a long report: GPT-4 can already be regarded as an early AGI

According to the latest lengthy experimental report released by Microsoft on arxiv, GPT-4 can be regarded as an early version of General artificial Intelligence (AGI). Specifically, in addition to mastering the language, GPT-4 can solve difficult tasks across mathematics, programming, vision, medicine, law, psychology and other fields without any special hints, and its ability is very close to the human level.

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Don't miss other hot spots too ~

1、 Wang Chuanfu: semiconductor business IPO is planned to become the largest automobile manufacturer in China by the end of the year.

On March 29, at BYD's results conference, BYD Chairman Wang Chuanfu said that China's car demand from January to February was weaker than last year, but BYD's sales would still grow by more than 80% in the first quarter compared with the same period last year. BYD aims to become the largest carmaker in China by the end of this year, he said. Wang Chuanfu also revealed that there are no plans to enter the US passenger car market for the time being, and the IPO plan for the semiconductor business is still in progress. He also said that China's new energy vehicle market has entered a stage of full expansion. Demand for battery storage remains strong, and consumer demand for batteries is slowing.

2、 Yao Yang: it is entirely possible for Chinese chips of more than 28 nanometers to be de-Americanized, and electronic chips will be eliminated by photonic chips.

According to news on March 28, the 2023 annual meeting of the Boao Forum for Asia will be held from March 28 to March 31 in Boao, Hainan. Yao Yang, dean of the National Institute of Development of Peking University, said in response to a question from titanium media App that due to the influence of the international environment, in some areas, such as the chip field, China has to make its own things and complete the production of the entire industrial chain. Now it seems that "de-Americanization" of more than 28 nanometers in China's chip field is entirely possible, and I am afraid it must be done. Yao Yang stressed that the practice of the Americans is actually to lift a stone and drop it on their own feet. The chip iteration is very fast, and the electronic chip has reached its limit. The next new technology must be the photonic chip. He believes that electronic chips will be commercialized within five years for GPU and within ten years for CPU, which means that electronic chips will be eliminated.

3、 Wang Huiwen reached a well purchase intention with "first-class technology", and "Chinese version of OpenAI" sounded the assembly account.

The new project "Light Years Away" founded by former Meituan co-founder Wang Huiwen has reached a merger intention with Al architecture startup "First-Class Technology Oneflow", and the transaction will be conducted in the form of a share swap. According to reports, First-Class Technology is a framework startup company that does in-depth learning and was established in 2017. Founder and CEO Yuan Jinhui holds a doctorate in engineering from the Department of Computer Science at Tsinghua University and was a managing researcher at Microsoft Research Asia.

4、Wu Hequan, academician of China Academy of Engineering: Smartphones will still be the main terminal of 6G

Wu Hequan, academician of China Academy of Engineering, said when participating in an event recently that at present, the form of 6G terminals is likely to be dominated by smartphones and Internet of Things modules. Wu Hequan said that due to the limitations of helmet technology, XR, 3D and holographic communication requirements related to the metaverse, they are not yet enough to become core applications to drive the development of 6G.

5 、 zoom introduces OpenAl productivity features and launches digital assistant

DriveGPT 36Krypton learned that the company announced that the 8th HAOMO AI Day will be held on April 11 and will release the world's first autonomous driving generated large model DriveGPT.

6 、 Haimo Zhixing will release a large generation model of autonomous driving

News on March 22, it was reported today that Gaode held an internal meeting and announced the official merger with Alibaba's local life store business reputation. In the future, all Alibaba's local life-to-store businesses will be integrated into the entrance of Gaode Maps.

7 、 IDC: The total size of China's artificial intelligence market in 2026 is expected to exceed US$26.44 billion

36Krypton learned that IDC recently released the "2023 V1 Global Artificial Intelligence Spending Guide." The latest forecast data shows that the scale of artificial intelligence (AI) market spending in China will increase to US$14.75 billion in 2023, accounting for about one-tenth of the global total. IDC predicts that China's AI market will achieve a market size of US$26.44 billion in 2026, and the five-year compound growth rate (CAGR) from 2021 to 2026 will exceed 20%.

8 、 Musk signs a joint letter calling for a moratorium on training for artificial intelligence that is more powerful than GPT-4

On March 29, Musk and more than 11000 artificial intelligence experts and industry executives signed a joint letter calling for a suspension of training for artificial intelligence systems more powerful than GPT-4 for at least six months, citing the impact of such systems on society and Humanity poses a potential risk. "Strong artificial intelligence systems should be developed only if we are confident that their effects are positive and the risks are controllable," the letter wrote. Musk has repeatedly expressed concerns about artificial intelligence, saying in a video speech in February this year that artificial intelligence is one of the biggest risks to future human civilization.