A project financed by the European Union

Implementing Partners

Artificial Intelligence China 2030Gianluca Giorgi

Get Ready for China!

The EU SME Centre is an EU Commission-funded project which helps EU SMEs to do business in China by providing

them with a range of information, advices, training and support services.

The Centre is implemented by a consortium of six partners and was established in October 2010. It successfully

completed its first phase in July 2014 and has now entered its second phase which will run until July 2018.

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The China-Italy Chamber of Commerce (CICC) is a business

organization that aims to boost the internationalization and settlement

of Italian business and to promote the “Made in Italy” in the PRC.

The CICC offers informative, training and business networking

opportunities to the companies as well as a voicing platform for them

to share topics of common interest.

Moreover, to companies interested in strengthening their business in

China, the CICC offers consultancy, assistance and marketing

services.

The CICC is one of the six Implementing Partner of the EU SME

Centre.

Speaker biography

• 14 years’ experience in China’s market.

• Professional experience in factory automated plants and plant

simulation to build Industry 4.0 Factories.

• IBM OS Software Engineer in the Automation field.

• GE Fanuc Automation division as Advanced Systems Integrators and

later at DIGITAL Automation Division.

• Degree in Software Engineering from Allen Bradley, Siemens,

Telemecanique, USDATA SCADA, ORACLE and National

Instruments.

• Developer of a Machine Deep Learning software to automatically

calibrate the diesel engines heads.

• 2002: Manager of R&D team to develop the first wood working

sanding machine (Fuzzy Logic agents). Funded by EU FP7.

• Director of several projects for FIAT Group, MAGNETI MARELLI,

LOMBARDINI Engines, ARISTON, GUZZINI, VIET etc. regarding

fully automatic automotive production lines, automatic warehouse

systems, and fully robotized production lines.

Gianluca Giorgi

General Manager at LAC Hong Kong Ltd

Introduction

The idea of inanimate objects coming to life as intelligent beings has been around for millennia. The ancient Greeks had

myths about robots, and Chinese and Egyptian engineers built automations.

The beginnings of modern AI can be traced back to classical philosophers' attempts to describe human thinking as a

symbolic system. But the field of AI wasn't formally founded until 1956, at a conference at Dartmouth College, in Hanover,

New Hampshire, where the term "artificial intelligence" was coined.

But achieving an artificially intelligent being wasn't so simple. After several reports criticizing progress in AI, government

funding and interest in the field dropped off – a period from 1974 to 1980 that became known as the "AI winter." The field

later revived in the 1980s when the British government started funding it again in part to compete with efforts by the

Japanese.

The field experienced another major winter from 1987 to 1993, coinciding with the collapse of the market for some of the

early general-purpose computers and reduced government funding.

McKinsey Global Institute estimated in its famous paper "Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and

productivity" that "by 2009, nearly all sectors in the US economy had at least an average of 200 terabytes of stored data".

By 2016, the market for AI-related products, hardware and software reached more than 8 billion dollars and the New York

Times reported that interest in AI had reached a "frenzy".

Topics we are going to explore:

• Chapt. 1: Chinese Government Policies

• Chapt. 2: Chinese Market Status

• Chapt. 3: AI Cases in China

• Chapt. 4: Possibilities for EU SME in AI Industry

• Chapt. 5: Conclusions

Chapter 1:

Chinese Government Policies

Chapter 1: Chinese Government Policies

Chinese Government Policies

Guideline on Artificial Intelligence Releases

Key Concepts:

• China as AI global innovation center by 2030.

• Necessity to innovate the basic theories of AI.

• Build innovation platforms to coordinate different hardware, software and clouds.

• Investigate advanced theories which could revolutionize AI (advanced machine

learning, brain-like computing, quantum intelligent computing, etc.)

• Train more AI professionals.

Chapter 2:

Chinese Market Status

Chinese Market Status

Taobao

Amazon

JD

Alibaba

These e-commerce channels are the most important “data input place” to know more

about the new trends in the market, as well as to know more about customers’

satisfaction.

Chinese Market Status

Chinese Market Status

Chats, photos and videos let you understand more about the social life, the relationships,

and everything concerning the psychology of the population.

WeChat, QQ and alike socials have become the new “Agora’” where people exchange

ideas, thoughts and emotions.

Chinese Market Status

Chapter 3:

AI Cases in China

AI Cases in China

Tencent is building a robot research lab in China’s manufacturing heartland

Tencent, the company behind China’s biggest chat platform WeChat, will open a robotics lab in

Shenzhen, upgrading the company’s research effort in the AI area.

• Why robots? Tencent is researching different AI algorithms, from the Go-playing program Fine Art

to AI software control systems: interacting with real objects is also an opportunity to develop AI

research on vision and language.

• Factory reset: Rising labour market prices stimulate the research on robots that can substitute

manufacturing workers in labour-intensive companies in Shenzhen. Therefore the location of the

lab.

• Rising power: Tencent already has two AI research labs, and a publisher of research papers.

China’s other two tech giants, Alibaba and Baidu, are also investing in AI research.

Source: MIT Technology Review, March 16 2018.

AI Cases in China

IFlyTek

A Chinese artificial intelligence company with both innovative technology

and troubling ties to Chinese state security.

IFlyTek has said its technology can monitor a car full of people or a

crowded room, identify a targeted individual’s voice and record everything

that a person says.

• China AI company shows how AI technology can be involved with the security sector

AI Cases in China

• Lenovo’s spin-off develops AI Technologies for the Healthcare sector.

AI Cases in China

• Chinese AI Startup receives consistent funding from venture capitals firm.

AI Cases in China

Source: www.technologyreview.com

• Chinese AI company in the security sector is the most well-founded AI startup in the world

Chapter 4:

Possibilities for EU SME in AI Industry

Possibilities for EU SME in AI Industry

• Open in China incubators for spin-off in AI and Robotics fields.

• Use the EU and binational Chambers of Commerce’s support to

promote AI-related projects to the most important conferences and

shows, attended by Chinese Government Authorities and worldwide

companies.

• Use the High Tech Working Group to transfer the new technologies

to all the members.

• Use experts’ longtime work experience in China and relations in the

High Tech field to support the young entrepreneurs to make their

projects successful in the Chinese market.

• Get Chinese investors’ support through funds, advertising and

connections to be successful in China and outside.

Chapter 5:

Conclusions

Conclusions

China is a huge market filled with many opportunities.

China’s investors are fast and aggressive in the market.

China’s Government wants to be leader in the AI field by 2030.

The Government’s funds are ready to support all the AI new projects in

China.

European and binational Chambers of Commerce can support in

promoting new technological projects.

What is missing?

We need you to join us with your staff, projects, knowledge,

inventions, skills, to be included in our China Technological Team and

go all together to win High Tech battles for business and for our related

countries.

Conclusions

See you soon!

Sources

• The State Council, The People’s Republic of China: english.gov.cn

• Cisco Systems: www.cisco.com

• China Daily: www.chinadaily.com.cn

• MIT Technology Review: www.technologyreview.com

• Iflytek Co. Ltd: www.iflytek.com

• South China Morning Post: www.scmp.com

• YAHOO Finance: www.finance.yahoo.com

• Disruptor daily: www.disruptordaily.com

• McKinsey&Company Global Institute: www.mckinsey.com

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