From Hsinai Honda to build a smart car and talk about how AI benefits the automotive industry

Today, the rapid development of artificial intelligence has reached a very hot point. Now, it has been applied to many fields. One of the most important ones is automatic driving.

On Thursday, after announcing the acquisition of British chip design firm ARM, Sun Yatsen, founder of Softbank, stated that he was preparing a more "crazy" idea: a car that could read the emotions of the driver and communicate with the driver. In fact, the core of this technology is: The use of artificial intelligence in the car. Softbank said: The humanoid robot Pepper system it will develop will be installed in the Honda automobile and will interact with the driver via cloud technology and the Internet. Pepper can read human emotions and communicate with people. Softbank hopes this technology will help drivers to provide companionship when they park and travel long distances. In this system, equipment, vehicles, and robots that can collect feedback data are linked to form a network. Sun Zhengyi repeatedly stated that artificial intelligence will bring "the greatest change ever" to the technology industry. Cooperation with Honda will help Honda plan to improve the development of unmanned systems that will be released to the market in the future.

After announcing this cooperation with Honda, many people have praised them and said: Yes, this is a very grand and just!

Needless to say, in the future, artificial intelligence is crucial for automated driving. How important is that? Xiao Bian will not go into details and tell you directly with a set of data.

Recently, in the research report on "artificial intelligence" released by the American IHS company, analysts expect that the number of artificial intelligence systems in vehicles will increase from 7 million units in 2015 to 122 million units by 2025; The AI ​​technology-related systems (mostly based on voice recognition) will increase the ratio of new vehicles from 8% in 2015 to 109% in 2025. In addition, IHS points out that many vehicles will have different functions installed in the future. Artificial intelligence system.

It is worth mentioning that in the design of HMI human-machine interface in the car, IHS believes that artificial intelligence technology will play a major role in the realization of functions such as speech or gesture recognition, eye tracking, driver monitoring and natural language interaction; In the case of driverless cars, the presence of artificial intelligence can improve the recognition accuracy of the machine vision system, and it will also play an important role in the ECU that controls sensor fusion.

However, although the artificial intelligence that is now the core technology of automatic driving has made great progress, we still have a long way to go to achieve true driverless driving. For the automotive industry, driverless driving is not only about creating independent smart machines. The key is how to use artificial intelligence as the brain, combined with the development of intelligent transportation to bring about a new industry ecosystem. This will also redefine the relationship between future people and automobiles.

Now, companies such as Google have already made remarkable achievements in applying artificial intelligence to AI. Major automobile manufacturers have also joined forces with major technological institutions to allow artificial intelligence to promote the development of automated driving. A few months ago, Toyota announced that it will invest $1 billion in Toyota researchers in Silicon Valley for a five-year period of artificial intelligence research. At the same time, Toyota also stated that it will build two laboratories in the areas near Stanford University and MIT.

How to use artificial intelligence in automobiles? Not long ago, Lei Fengwang (searching for "Lei Feng Net" public concern) reported on a company called Oxbotica, a technology company that was born out of Oxford and committed to new software development. While major auto-pilot giants and auto makers are trying their best to create their own cool products, it is another way to turn ordinary cars into self-driving cars. The software developed by Oxbotica is named Selenium. It can obtain data information through the vision system, laser scanner and radar system. Then it uses algorithms to determine the location of the target, understand the surrounding conditions and indicate the direction of movement. Therefore, the Selenium system can transform any car into a self-driving car. In simple terms, Selenium enables cars to learn, learn how humans drive, and constantly improve their responsiveness.

This is an excellent example of applying artificial intelligence to cars. The car learns when it encounters every new situation and uploads the new situation to the cloud. Over time, the cloud will form a massive database of data for each car. Later, when each car encounters any scene it has known in the past, it knows how to handle it; when it encounters a scene that has not been seen, it will quickly upload it to the cloud computing center. After such a cyclical process, artificial intelligence capabilities have continued to increase over time as the scale continues to increase and artificial intelligence capabilities continue to increase. Over time, our car will become an "old driver" with a brain.

Therefore, artificial intelligence is developing at a rapid pace at this stage, and the automotive industry will benefit from it. How will the future develop, let us wait and see.