TLDR: How Baidu (and China) will win tech’s next wave
By Wired
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Baidu (and China) have the scale to win tech's new era
Algorithms, data, and scale…
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“ to train the algorithms that will deliver the intelligence to transform our cities, it needs data. To wit: The company with the most data wins.
“ In China, 731 million people — nearly twice the entire population of the United States — are online. Says Lu: “China has the structural advantage.”
“ The first [AI] platform we call DuerOS. DuerOS is a natural language-based, conversation-based, human computing platform. Very much like Alexa, Google Now, Siri, or Cortana in the United States. The only difference is DuerOS is so far ahead of anybody else. DuerOS in China has accumulated more conversation-based skill sets than anybody else [with] an emerging partner ecosystem. So our partners are building more and more skill sets.
#open source #developer platform #SDK
“ We have better opportunities to globalize DuerOS, because guess what? A home in Japan, a home in India, or a home in Brazil, is a lot closer to a home in China than a home in North America.
“ If you want to truly build digital intelligence to be able to acquire knowledge, make decisions, and adapt to the environment, you need to build autonomous systems. In autonomous systems, the car is the first major commercial application that is going to land. It’s just like the phone ecosystem today. The phone ecosystem is the largest silicon software ecosystem. I believe the same thing will happen for the autonomous system. The car is going to build a larger ecosystem. And the same set of capabilities — hardware, sensors, chip sets, software — will be used to build industry robots, home robots.
“ We wrote a manifesto of Apollo [Baidu’s self-driving car platform]. Essentially, there are four principles …
- Capability [open-sourcing code, services, and data to third-party developers]
- Shared resources [devs can use all of Baidu’s data if they share all of their own data]
- Accelerating pace of innovation [from exponential scaling of data]
- Sustained win-win [for Baidu and partners]
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