Digital Expo ＂On the Road＂ Big Data Future： China is one of the most important markets.

　　May flies, and Guiyang is "hot" again. From May 25 to 28, 2017 China International Big Data Industry Expo (hereinafter referred to as "Digital Expo") was held in Guiyang, Guizhou Province. The annual theme of this Expo was "Digital Economy Leads New Growth", which is also the third year that Guizhou held the Digital Expo. After the embryonic stage, "Digital Guiyang" is full of youth.

　　The vast ocean of data, like the oil resources in industrial society, contains huge productivity and business opportunities. Big data is known as the "diamond mine" in the 21st century. Whoever masters big data will master the resources and initiative of economic development.

　　In the opening ceremony and sub-forums of this year’s Digital Expo, Bai Chunli, President of China Academy of Sciences, Ma Yun, Chairman of Alibaba’s Board of Directors, Li Yanhong, founder of Baidu, and other guests from the scientific and business circles expressed their views on the future development of big data in Guiyang.

　　Bai Chunli, President of Chinese Academy of Sciences: China has become one of the most important big data markets in the world.

　　Big data is not a new concept. IT appeared as early as the 1960s and 1970s, but it has revived in the 21st century because of the breakthrough in the application level of IT technology in recent years. Therefore, big data is considered as the product of "the third industrial revolution marked by computer, communication technology and the Internet".

　　At the opening ceremony of 2017 China International Big Data Industry Expo held on May 26th, Bai Chunli, president of China Academy of Sciences, said that with the comprehensive promotion of national strategy, China’s big data has a good foundation and unique advantages for accelerating development. China has the largest number of Internet users in the world, with more than 700 million netizens, and has become one of the most important big data markets in the world.

　　In addition, Bai Chunli, president of China Academy of Sciences, took FAST as an example, focusing on the importance of the development of big data in expanding the depth and breadth of China’s scientific and technological innovation and promoting the development of scientific and technological innovation to an efficient and collaborative organizational model.

　　It is understood that in September 2016, China’s 500-meter spherical radio telescope project (FAST) was completed and put into use in Pingtang, Guizhou Province. It is known as the "Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST)" and is the largest single-caliber and most sensitive radio telescope with independent intellectual property rights in China.

　　Ma Yun, Chairman of Alibaba’s Board of Directors: Big data makes the market smarter

　　"Because big data makes the market smarter, because big data makes planning and pre-judgment possible." Ma Yun said.

　　On the afternoon of May 26th, Ma Yun, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Alibaba Group, delivered a speech at the "Machine Intelligence" Summit Dialogue of China International Big Data Industry Expo 2017. Ma Yun believes that we are moving from the IT era to the DT era. In the era of big data, "change" will be redefined in the next 30 years. In this "exciting era", enterprises need to be prepared.

　　Ma Yun put forward a point at the meeting: In the future, as data acquisition becomes easier and easier, it may subvert our worship of the market economy, and the "planned" economy will become stronger and stronger, and the market will not necessarily be visible because of data. This kind of "plan" is based on data and algorithms, and it can more accurately understand the operation law of economic activities.

　　He cited the situation that new retail, education, science and technology and other industries will be redefined by data, and pointed out that in the face of the tremendous changes brought about by the combination of artificial intelligence and big data, human beings should not be afraid or blindly pursue machines to imitate human beings, but should give full play to their own advantages and change with the trend.

　　Regarding the recent man-machine Go war, he thinks: "Human beings should have the wisdom to admit (self) limitation, and there is no need to challenge the machine who is smarter." "Machines should use machine methods and unique thinking to do things that humans can’t do." In the future, the competition between human beings and machines will lie in the competition of wisdom and experience.

　　"Today, in the era of change, human changes will always exceed our imagination." Ma Yun said that in the era of technological revolution, any application promotion will bring both benefits and impacts. For example, the impact of the future development of machine intelligence on human employment will exceed everyone’s imagination. For enterprises, this era is also an exciting one, because the opportunity lies in others’ complaints and panic.

　　Li Yanhong, founder of Baidu: There is no need to fear artificial intelligence.

　　Artificial intelligence is an important field of big data application, and it is also a controversial field in the scientific community. Will artificial intelligence replace people in the future? At the summit dialogue on "Industrial Big Data and Artificial Intelligence" held on the afternoon of May 26th, when talking about artificial intelligence, Li Yanhong, the founder of Baidu Company, said that many times people don’t understand AI (artificial intelligence), so they are afraid. Many people think that artificial intelligence is a way for computers to simulate the human brain. This misunderstanding is very common, and there is no need to worry.

　　"The computer will not exceed the human brain? Will humans be controlled by artificial intelligence? I firmly believe that it will not. " Li Yanhong said that people are optimistic about the exploration, development and evolution of artificial intelligence, which brings optimistic influence and is controllable.

　　In Li Yanhong’s view, the most precious thing in the industrial age is not coal, but a technological revolution and innovation like the steam engine. Similarly, the most precious thing in the artificial intelligence era is the technological innovation brought by data. "I hope Guiyang can not only seize the opportunity of big data, but also seize various opportunities in the era of artificial intelligence," said Li Yanhong.

　　Ni Guangnan, Academician of China Academy of Engineering: The development of big data must attach great importance to safety.

　　However, with the rapid development of disruptive technologies such as big data, the challenges faced by network security are becoming increasingly acute. The recent ransomware incidents have once again sounded the alarm to the world.

　　Academician Ni Guangnan believes that artificial intelligence and big data promote each other and develop together. On the one hand, big data promotes the technology of artificial intelligence, and at present artificial intelligence is mainly based on big data; On the other hand, big data provides a good means for artificial intelligence.

　　Academician Ni Guangnan suggested speeding up the research and development of core technologies to ensure the security of big data and ensuring network security through multi-dimensional evaluation. He said that the relationship between security and development should be handled well in the field of network information. Because of the huge amount of data, if there is a problem with security, the consequences will be very serious. Therefore, the development of big data must attach great importance to security and promote the construction of big data and the security of big data simultaneously. (Zhao Yue, Yang Bo)