2022 World Artificial Intelligence Conference concluded successfully in Shanghai yesterday. With the theme of "Intelligent Connected World, Origin and Unbounded", this conference highlights the characteristics of the Metaverse in all aspects. According to preliminary statistics, as of yesterday, a total investment of nearly 15 billion yuan in signed projects had been achieved during the conference, attracting more than 638 million people to watch online, and 370,000 people to experience the online Metaverse exhibition hall.
Since the first World Artificial Intelligence Conference was held, the conference has been focusing on "the future of cities and people", highlighting the artificial intelligence (AI) industry's empowerment of urban digital governance, and highlighting the changes in people's lives caused by AI progress. By successfully holding five consecutive World Artificial Intelligence Conferences, Shanghai's expectations of "promoting business, attracting intelligence, and gathering talents through conferences" have been continuously fulfilled. The scale of the city's artificial intelligence industry has increased from 134 billion yuan in 2018 to 305.6 billion yuan in 2021. yuan to achieve doubling. At the same time, solid results have been achieved in artificial intelligence technology innovation, application empowerment, and governance practices.
This year's World Artificial Intelligence Conference focuses on "AI + Metaverse", further gathering global related technology, industry and talent resources, and striving to create opportunities and create an environment for laying out new tracks in the Metaverse and spreading new digital thinking. During the conference, a total of 121 activities were held around the five-sector matrix of conferences, exhibitions, competitions, applications, and talents, covering four fields: technological innovation, industrial application, legal ethics, and ecological construction, involving more than 30 professional directions, not only in The two sides of the Huangpu River have achieved synergy in many places, and have also achieved co-frequency resonance at home and abroad through online platforms and metaverse venues.
At this conference, there were more than 500 leading scholars, well-known entrepreneurs, representatives of international organizations and other heavyweight guests from the fields of artificial intelligence and metaverse at home and abroad, including 4 Turing Award winners, Nobel Prize , Fields Medal , Marr Medal winner each, 8 academicians at home and abroad More than 0, more than 20 presidents of top universities, and heads of leading technology companies such as Baidu, Huawei, Qualcomm, Meta, etc., focusing on "AI + metaverse", generative AI, trusted AI, and brain-computer interface and other current global hot topics in artificial intelligence, and explore new trends in science, technology and industrial innovation. At the same time, six major metaverse scenes, a series of metaverse platforms and alliances were also launched or established during the conference, reflecting the leading and driving effect of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference.
The signing of new major industrial cooperation projects has always been the highlight of the closing session of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference. Yesterday, 25 "Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Representative Industry Projects" were signed before the closing ceremony, of which 8 projects were signed on-site and 17 projects were signed simultaneously at the Yuanverse venue, involving a total investment of nearly 15 billion yuan. The launching ceremony of "Working Together to Build a New Metaverse Platform" was held at the same time. Key projects such as Kuaishou Shanghai R&D Center, Huanshen Technology VR Intelligent Technology R&D Center, and Qingbo Intelligent Metaverse Research Institute will focus on the construction of the Metaverse platform and accelerate industrial innovation. . In addition, in the "Financial Ecosystem Helps New Track Launching Ceremony", a billion-yuan new track sub-fund was launched, and a tens of billions of credit innovation support tools were released to help the new track industry develop and grow.
According to statistics released by the organizer, as of 14:00 yesterday, the World Artificial Intelligence Conference had attracted a total of 370,000 people to experience the Metaverse Exhibition online. More than 700 radio and television media and traffic media broadcast the grand event of the conference, reaching more than 2,000 networks. With self-media, the total number of online viewers on the entire network exceeded 638 million, achieving the effect of "thousands of networks launching together, tens of thousands of people gathering together, and hundreds of millions of people watching at the same time".
Member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and Vice Mayor Zhang Wei announced the closing of the conference.
Author: Zhang Yi
Editor: Fan Jing
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