DuerOS - new OS with AI elements released
At the beginning of November, Baidu released DuerOS, a new operating system that will have to spur the development of artificial intelligence systems. According to the developers, the OS will allow faster development of interactive AI capabilities: speech recognition and generation.
The features of DuerOS and the functions of the operating systems of the future will be discussed below.
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Although the official launch of DuerOS took place in November, the project has been tested since the beginning of this year. DuerOS quickly became popular among equipment manufacturers in China. They integrated it into hundreds of devices: from refrigerators and air conditioners to smartphones and robots.
The OS feature is a powerful machine learning package for voice recognition. The company plans to open access to a thousand hours of Mandarin audio recordings. This will allow developers to train the device to "hear" human speech in difficult conditions, such as surrounded by noise.
The creators will also open up access to 500 thousand words in Chinese: “xiaodu xiaodu” to activate DuerOS and others. In addition, the project developers offer collaboration and financial rewards for helping develop the natural language processing of a virtual interlocutor. Baidu plans to develop courses and hold seminars at universities and research institutes to exchange ideas about interactive artificial intelligence.
During 2017, the company actively promoted its product: in July, Baidu and NVIDIA announced the expansion of partnerships. Companies are working on solutions based on artificial intelligence in various areas: cloud infrastructure, autopilot machines and home robots.
The Baidu deep learning platform will run on NVIDIA Volta processors. These companies and Chinese automakers will integrate the NVIDIA Drive PX platform into their autopilot systems. DuerOS also integrates Chinese-made NVIDIA Shield TV.
Another alliance is Baidu and the Conexant audio company. They have teamed up to promote products and services with voice recognition based on artificial intelligence.
The evolution of artificial intelligence technologies and the desire to improve the performance of mobile devices became the basis for the creation of a new generation of operating systems. According to representatives of the industry, the operating system of the future should have an extensible semantic structure, that is, learn to understand new words and expand the language of interaction automatically. For example, for now, developers enter all the necessary information “manually” into the Google Now service.
In addition, the OS will learn to understand the user. Passive receipt of recommendations will turn into a system of interactive requests, which will anticipate the user's desires. Also, the operating systems of the future should master grammar of the type “operator + data”.
The development of such systems, in addition to Baidu, is the team of WEAVE.AI . Their WeaveOS product based on artificial intelligence already contains some of the listed components of the OS of the future. Another team of enthusiasts - Airocorp. According to the developers, their FI-OS solution will simplify the lives of users and turn a computer from a working tool into a companion of a person who studies the behavior and habits of the user.
Andy Rubin, one of the creators of Android, also believes that artificial intelligence is the operating system of the future. Rubin is developing Essential smartphone and Essential Home smart home solution based on Ambient operating system. The goal of the developer is to create a single platform for all devices and applications.
Researchers at Oxford and Yale universities believe that over the next ten years, machines will be able to translate texts, write school essays, and perform surgeries better than people. According to them, the probability that artificial intelligence in 45 years will surpass people in all activities is 50%.
Baidu is a Chinese web services company. The main one is the search engine of the same name. Baidu also has an online encyclopedia - Baidu Encyclopedia, which is ahead of Wikipedia in China.
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The features of DuerOS and the functions of the operating systems of the future will be discussed below.
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About the system
Although the official launch of DuerOS took place in November, the project has been tested since the beginning of this year. DuerOS quickly became popular among equipment manufacturers in China. They integrated it into hundreds of devices: from refrigerators and air conditioners to smartphones and robots.
The OS feature is a powerful machine learning package for voice recognition. The company plans to open access to a thousand hours of Mandarin audio recordings. This will allow developers to train the device to "hear" human speech in difficult conditions, such as surrounded by noise.
The creators will also open up access to 500 thousand words in Chinese: “xiaodu xiaodu” to activate DuerOS and others. In addition, the project developers offer collaboration and financial rewards for helping develop the natural language processing of a virtual interlocutor. Baidu plans to develop courses and hold seminars at universities and research institutes to exchange ideas about interactive artificial intelligence.
During 2017, the company actively promoted its product: in July, Baidu and NVIDIA announced the expansion of partnerships. Companies are working on solutions based on artificial intelligence in various areas: cloud infrastructure, autopilot machines and home robots.
The Baidu deep learning platform will run on NVIDIA Volta processors. These companies and Chinese automakers will integrate the NVIDIA Drive PX platform into their autopilot systems. DuerOS also integrates Chinese-made NVIDIA Shield TV.
Another alliance is Baidu and the Conexant audio company. They have teamed up to promote products and services with voice recognition based on artificial intelligence.
New generation operating systems
The evolution of artificial intelligence technologies and the desire to improve the performance of mobile devices became the basis for the creation of a new generation of operating systems. According to representatives of the industry, the operating system of the future should have an extensible semantic structure, that is, learn to understand new words and expand the language of interaction automatically. For example, for now, developers enter all the necessary information “manually” into the Google Now service.
In addition, the OS will learn to understand the user. Passive receipt of recommendations will turn into a system of interactive requests, which will anticipate the user's desires. Also, the operating systems of the future should master grammar of the type “operator + data”.
Who is doing this
The development of such systems, in addition to Baidu, is the team of WEAVE.AI . Their WeaveOS product based on artificial intelligence already contains some of the listed components of the OS of the future. Another team of enthusiasts - Airocorp. According to the developers, their FI-OS solution will simplify the lives of users and turn a computer from a working tool into a companion of a person who studies the behavior and habits of the user.
Andy Rubin, one of the creators of Android, also believes that artificial intelligence is the operating system of the future. Rubin is developing Essential smartphone and Essential Home smart home solution based on Ambient operating system. The goal of the developer is to create a single platform for all devices and applications.
Researchers at Oxford and Yale universities believe that over the next ten years, machines will be able to translate texts, write school essays, and perform surgeries better than people. According to them, the probability that artificial intelligence in 45 years will surpass people in all activities is 50%.
About Baidu
Baidu is a Chinese web services company. The main one is the search engine of the same name. Baidu also has an online encyclopedia - Baidu Encyclopedia, which is ahead of Wikipedia in China.
PS A few more materials from the First Corporate IaaS blog:
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