On September 17, The 2018 World Artificial Intelligence Conference kicked off in Shanghai and will run until September 19. Over 140 companies will present their latest AI applications in the areas of finance, smart manufacturing, education, transportation, healthcare, retail and services. Speakers from 40 companies, including Google, Alibaba, Tencent, Huawei, Microsoft, SAP and Baidu are expected to attend forums at the event. Here are some quotes from business tycoons at the AI event. In the future, no companies will claim that it has no relations with AI, said Robin Li, founder of Baidu. The human has entered into AI era, no matter where you go, all the giants are discussing artificial intelligence, Lei Jun, founder of Xiaomi, said. “There is no artificial intelligence industry; rather, it’s always AI+. AI cannot exist independently and it must be combined with traditional industries — not to subvert them, but to empower them and help traditional industries improve production efficiency,” Tang Xiaoou, founder of SenseTime, said at the forum.

Source: Chinadaily, globaltimes