On July 9, 2020, the third World Congress on Artificial Intelligence opened in Shanghai. Li Yanhong, founder, chairman and CEO of Baidu, was invited to attend and deliver a speech entitled "A new starting point of artificial intelligence: new infrastructure accelerates the arrival of intelligent economy and intelligent society". In his speech, Li Yanhong also talked about the important role of "new infrastructure".

He believes that the "new infrastructure" plan that China is actively promoting today can be regarded as the largest infrastructure expansion project before mankind enters the intelligent economy and intelligent society. "It is very promising to take the lead in setting off the trend of comprehensive artificial intelligence in China.

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Li Yanhong put forward the three-stage theory of artificial intelligence development.

Li Yanhong first put forward the three-stage theory of artificial intelligence development. He believes that the development of AI can be divided into three stages: technical intelligence stage, economic intelligence stage and social intelligence stage. The second stage is divided into upper and lower stages. In the first half, the development of artificial intelligence mainly focused on the development of general capabilities and the platformization of AI capabilities as resources. In the second half of the year, artificial intelligence began to be fully industrialized, and its industrial application and commercialization were fully popularized.

Regarding the current stage of the development of artificial intelligence, Li Yanhong said, "At present, we are in a period of transition from the first half of economic intelligence to the second half. Artificial intelligence has proved or initially proved its potential to subvert and reconstruct the industry. "

China Net-Li Yanhong: "New Infrastructure" is a new starting point of artificial intelligence. AI development needs to go through three stages.