Technology Trends Forecast 2022


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2022-01-18

On January 25, Baidu Research Institute released its 2022 technology trend forecast, which is the third consecutive year that it has released its outlook on cutting-edge technology trends.

This year's science and technology trend forecast covers AI core technology, interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary research, as well as AI's industrial and social values, including pre-training large models, AI for Science (artificial intelligence applied to scientific research), AI-based biological computing, privacy computing, quantum hardware and software integration, automatic driving, deep space exploration, human-computer symbiosis, green AI, inclusive AI and other fields.

"Artificial intelligence technology with rapid evolution of core technology, enhanced cross-domain connectivity, and increasingly solid industrial base has become an important force leading innovation and development." Wang Haifeng, president of Baidu CTO and Baidu Research Institute, said in the preface, "I hope that in an uncertain era, AI will be used as a lamp to illuminate the road of innovation. Take AI as the paddle to row the boat of development."

First of all, AI core technology continues to break through and evolve, and integration and innovation are becoming more and more significant.

Taking the pre-trained large model as an example, the large model performs self-supervised learning based on massive data, uses a unified model and paradigm to solve various AI tasks, breaks the dependence of traditional techniques on large-scale labeled data, and significantly improves the effect, versatility and generalization of AI models. Knowledge enhancement, cross-modal, cross-language and other technical paths activate the imagination space of large models, showing the trend of multi-technology integration and multi-learning co-evolution, and gradually practical.

Second, in interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary research, AI constitutes a common variable for scientific research and technological development.

The application of artificial intelligence to scientific research, that is, the emergence of AI for Science emerging research fields, is expected to bring about changes in scientific research paradigm. AI-based biological computing will continue to develop at a high speed, with new breakthroughs in basic research and application scenarios. In order to ensure the security of data and privacy, privacy computing technology has attracted attention and will become a breakthrough in the release of data value and an infrastructure for building trust. Quantum software and hardware integration scheme has become the mainstream trend, the real demand accelerates the integration and innovation of quantum computing and various industries.

Third, in terms of industrial and social value, AI is promoting the development of automatic driving, aerospace, human-computer interaction and other fields, and helping to achieve the goals of "double carbon" and science and technology inclusive.

Autopilot technology has entered a new stage of unmanned landing, with multiple "car robots" emerging to connect technologies and scenes. The integration and innovation of AI technology and aerospace science and technology have pushed deep space exploration to a new stage of intelligence. The new crown epidemic has set up a "social distance" for people's communication. The development of digital technology has shortened this distance and accelerated the symbiosis between people, digital people and robots, the combination of virtual and real and intelligent interaction technology will be quickly integrated into production and life, green and low carbon more into the AI blueprint, to help achieve the goal of carbon peak carbon neutrality, AI more inclusive, value creation-oriented so that the needs of small and medium-sized enterprises, vulnerable groups get more attention.

This is the third consecutive year that Baidu Research Institute has released an outlook on cutting-edge technology trends. Previously, Baidu Research Institute on digital people, virtual people will appear in large quantities, "digital traffic operation" will become a key driving force and other trends have been gradually realized.

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