On the morning of December 16, at the Geek Park Innovation Conference held in the conduction space of Beijing 751 Park, Robin Lee, the founder, chairman and CEO of Baidu, and the founder of Geek Park& CEO Zhang Peng discusses the topic of big models. Robin Lee said that the progress of the big model is not an opportunity for the vast majority of people, and the "roll" of AI native applications is valuable.
Robin Lee said, "I think the difference in this wave of big model technology lies in its versatility. We call it 'intelligent emergence', and it has learned something that has not been taught before. With this feature, when you have a set of basic technologies that can be done very well and very advanced, it can quickly make valuable applications in various scenarios. This is something that AI has never experienced in the past 70 years, so it is completely different." "The opportunity."
In the face of this huge opportunity, Robin Lee has always believed that we should focus on AI native applications, and the "100 model war" is a great waste of social resources. "On top of the basic model, there must be millions, even millions, of AI native applications in order for the value of this big model to be reflected. In recent public statements, including internal company speeches, it has been emphasized that we must focus on AI native applications. Only by making this thing happen can your model have value."
Robin Lee said that technology should still serve applications. "For example, today's PPT generation capability of Baidu Wenku is the best in the world. It is based on the ERNIE Bot big model. At this time, you said that there is no gap between us and the world's most advanced level. But if you said that the market in China is too small, especially for enterprise level applications, so we are not ready to do anything to optimize these things, it may be lagging behind."
What are the progressiveness aspects of the big model? Robin Lee said that the progressiveness of model technology depends more on the application scenarios and uses of the model. "Sometimes when I talk about evaluating the quality of a model, it is the core competitiveness of a modeling company."
Baidu has layouts at the chip layer, framework layer, model layer, and application layer. Robin Lee said, "So I can optimize end-to-end. Just now, I talked about the example of generating PPT. When it has a demand, Wenxin big model must optimize for this thing. When optimizing, I said that the number of calls is too large, the cost is too high, and we can't afford it. Go further, your framework is the PaddlePaddle framework, and you need to optimize it completely for the demands of Wenxin big model. Go further, it is how to go to the chip Adapt to the frame of PaddlePaddle and Wenxin large model. "
Turning to the topic of AI native application development, Robin Lee believed that "the truly successful AI native application product manager is probably not a certain type of person, but a combination of various types of people. Some people may not be computer majors, but his learning ability is very strong."