Baidu uses technology to make the complex world simpler.

　　In the past few years, various problems based on AI (artificial intelligence) have been one of the hottest topics in the field of science and technology. How to make this cutting-edge scientific and technological force simpler and acceptable to the people has become a real problem at present. In response to this problem, Baidu gave its own plan.

　　A few days ago, after reaching a strategic cooperation with China Science and Technology Museum, Baidu’s "Voyager" AI Popular Science Bus has started from Beijing, and has been launched in local science and technology museums in five cities across the country. On August 4, 2017, Baidu and science and technology hall held the launching ceremony of "Artificial Intelligence Popular Science China Tour" in Beijing, which marked the first stage of the strategic framework cooperation agreement reached between them based on artificial intelligence popular science. This trip of artificial intelligence science popularization in China has been carried out in local science and technology museums in five cities in China. The "Voyager" AI science popularization bus will spread the knowledge of artificial intelligence to all parts of the country, which also shows that Baidu’s artificial intelligence technology not only changes industries, but also cares about people’s lives. Bring updated artificial intelligence knowledge to further places. Prior to this, Baidu also successfully realized the "restoration" of the damaged Terracotta Warriors and Horses and the intelligent display of related cultural relics through artificial intelligence technology. In addition, Baidu is also committed to using the new AR (Augmented Reality) technology to restore and reproduce the folk life of old Beijing, and use technology to awaken history, so that experiencers can fully experience history and culture and become a part of history.

　　Make the complex world simpler.

　　In fact, it is Baidu’s mission to make the complex world simpler with technology. In the past few years, Baidu has been committed to technological innovation and the development of artificial intelligence. The reason why Baidu can achieve today’s achievements is closely related to the country’s concern and support for the field of scientific and technological innovation.

　　In order to realize the mission of "making the complex world simpler with technology", Baidu will adhere to two core strategies: consolidating the mobile foundation and winning the AI ? ? era. In short, AI is the core driving force of Baidu.

　　It is reported that Baidu AI platform is the foundation of developing application layer, which is composed of Baidu Brain and Baidu AI Cloud. Baidu brain is the first complete artificial intelligence platform in the industry, including algorithm layer, perception layer, cognition layer and platform layer. Baidu’s algorithm layer includes machine learning platform and deep learning platform; Perception layer includes speech recognition, image recognition, AR, VR (virtual reality) and other capabilities; The cognitive level includes NLP (natural language processing), knowledge map and user portrait; The platform layer is an AI open platform, which opens different capabilities to the outside world. Intelligent cloud is the foundation of Baidu AI platform, which is composed of AI+ big data+cloud.

　　At present, Baidu’s AI technology capability is accelerating at a solid pace. For developers and eco-partners, Baidu announced a number of important plans, including the Apollo plan for intelligent driving and the two open platforms for intelligent voice DuerOS, to fully launch Baidu’s important AI eco-strategies, technologies, business progress and solutions.

　　Up to now, in the field of artificial intelligence, Baidu has opened more than 60 AI core technologies, forming four major AI commercialization scenarios: airport, sales customer service, home and automobile. At the industrial chain level, only in the field of intelligent driving, more than 50 upstream and downstream manufacturers of the first-tier automobile industry at home and abroad have announced their participation in Baidu AI circle of friends in the three months since the announcement of the "Apollo Plan".

　　Baidu takes artificial intelligence as the driving force to continuously improve its existing core businesses, especially mobile phone Baidu, search, information flow and other core products. At the same time, in order to explore long-term market opportunities, Baidu will continue to expand emerging AI-driven businesses through open platforms and ecosystems.

　　Awakening history and culture with science and technology

　　Awakening history and culture with technology is one of the important practices undertaken by Baidu, the global artificial intelligence giant, in the field of AI, and it is also one of the most intuitive channels for the public to experience the power of AI at present.

　　On August 4th, 2017, Baidu and science and technology hall held the launching ceremony of "Artificial Intelligence Science Popularization in China" in Beijing, which marked the first stage of the strategic framework cooperation agreement reached between them based on artificial intelligence science popularization. This trip of artificial intelligence science popularization in China has been carried out in local science and technology museums in five cities in China. The "Voyager" AI science popularization bus will spread the knowledge of artificial intelligence to all parts of the country, which also shows that Baidu’s artificial intelligence technology not only changes industries, but also cares about people’s lives.

　　On May 18th this year, Baidu announced that it had realized the "restoration" of the damaged Terracotta Warriors and Horses and the intelligent display of related cultural relics through artificial intelligence technology. According to reports, the "restoration" plan uses AR technology to "restore" the Terracotta Warriors and Horses No.2 pit, kneeling figurines and bronze chariots and horses. Visitors can see the "alive" Terracotta Warriors and other cultural relics with their own eyes by scanning the three triggers of "plane layout", "light box of kneeling figurines" and "structure diagram of bronze chariots and horses" in the No.2 pit of Terracotta Warriors and Horses through Baidu AR function of mobile phone.

　　At the same time, the Digital Museum of Terracotta Warriors and Horses built by Baidu Encyclopedia was officially launched, presenting the Terracotta Warriors and Horses to the audience for the first time with the "ultra-high-definition level" of 20 billion pixels, becoming the first historical landscape in eight wonders of the world to be exhibited online with 10 billion pixels.

　　At the beginning of this year, following the restoration of Chaoyangmen by Baidu AR technology, Baidu began to comprehensively upgrade AR technology and completely restore the nine gates of old Beijing as cultural cities. It is reported that Baidu’s activity of restoring the nine gates of old Beijing through AR technology was held during the Spring Festival, so it has attracted the attention of many citizens and friends. During the event, passengers can see all kinds of life scenes of the old people in the old Beijing city after triggering AR through the mobile phone Baidu App, and at the same time, they can also interact with the restored "Old Nine Gates", which is very exciting.

　　Compared with some applications with a strong commercial atmosphere, Baidu’s attempt to awaken history and culture with technology and let the experiencers fully experience history and traditional culture with new AR technology can really make more and more people pay attention to and even participate in the inheritance and protection of history and culture. This also shows that Baidu’s artificial intelligence technology is not only about changing industries, but also about people’s lives themselves. Text/Liu Yang