Promote deep integration between the real economy and artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence is a product of the combination of knowledge and information after human beings experience the mechanical, electrical, chemical, and information industries. It represents a higher level of productivity, which means the arrival of a new era.

From the perspective of international economic competition and the reality of economic development in various countries, accelerating the deep integration of the real economy and artificial intelligence technology, creating new models, new formats, new industries, transforming and upgrading traditional industries, and comprehensively promoting the intelligent manufacturing industry are becoming increasingly An important breakthrough in cracking down on current economic development issues. Major countries have introduced relevant strategic plans to support them.

In 2018, the White House hosted the American Artificial Intelligence Summit to discuss the development prospects of the artificial intelligence industry and future related policies, with the aim of ensuring the global leading position of the United States in the era of artificial intelligence. In Canada, the government invested a total of 1.3 billion Canadian dollars (about 6.4 billion yuan) from 2016 to 2017 to conduct research on the field of artificial intelligence and the implementation of talent strategy. In fact, the Canadian government's investment in artificial intelligence has been going on for decades, with a cumulative investment of billions of dollars. A large number of world-leading artificial intelligence experts are also the first to engage in research in related fields in Canada.

In Japan, in order to successfully realize the industrialization of artificial intelligence, the government has long established a relevant road map. According to the plan of the Japanese government, they will promote the development of artificial intelligence in three stages, thereby greatly improving the efficiency of Japan's logistics, manufacturing, medical and nursing industries. The Japanese government has regarded artificial intelligence technology as a high-end core technology that will drive the “fourth industrial revolution” of rapid economic growth in the future.

In South Korea, the government proposed in 2018 that it will invest 2.2 trillion won (about 13 billion yuan) in the development of core artificial intelligence technology in the next five years, and plans to become a global giant in this field by 2022. Therefore, global artificial intelligence has entered an accelerated development period, and major countries are rushing to lay out in the field of artificial intelligence. In the future, the development of artificial intelligence will form a new watershed for national competition and will become the core position of the industrial game of the world's major countries. In the new era, China must establish a new concept of the development of the real economy, deepen the extensive application of artificial intelligence technology in the real economy, and realize the deep integration of the real economy and artificial intelligence.

New era artificial intelligence to help supply side reform

General Secretary Xi Jinping clearly stated in the report of the 19th National Congress that the main contradictions in China have been transformed into "the contradiction between the people's growing needs for a better life and the development of inadequate imbalances." The reality behind this change is the mismatch of supply and demand structure and the distortion of factor allocation. The revitalization of the real economy is the main task of the supply-side structural reform. It is necessary to improve the quality and efficiency of supply and optimize the supply structure as the main direction, promote China's economic transformation, and significantly enhance the quality advantage of China's economic development.

More than half of China's 1.4 billion people are network users, which provides a huge data source for the development of artificial intelligence, enabling enterprises to use a large database to develop machine learning. It can be said that it is unique in promoting the development of artificial intelligence in China. Advantage. Based on a new generation of information technology, artificial intelligence technology can use the data and information collected by information technologies such as the Internet, Internet of Things, cloud computing, and big data to accurately analyze the changes in market supply and demand, and then summarize the general market trends. Regularity, and predicting the future development trend of China's economy and society, enables the supply side to continuously adapt to the demand side upgrade, to achieve a balance between the supply side and the demand side, to achieve intelligentization of the consumer and manufacturing sectors. Therefore, artificial intelligence will become an important force to effectively correct imbalances and under-development in the new era.

Through the deep integration of the real economy and artificial intelligence, the new era will promote the innovation of the physical industry in the field of intelligent manufacturing, and then comprehensively improve the total factor productivity of the entire industry. Artificial intelligence breeds a major scientific breakthrough comparable to the birth of the Internet in the last century. In the future, it will become a new production factor with equal importance to labor, capital and land. At the same time, intelligence will also be the main symbol of future production and lifestyle changes. When artificial intelligence is not only a tool to enhance productivity, but as a new production factor, it will have the potential to bring huge growth opportunities to our economy. By 2035, artificial intelligence has the potential to boost the total value added of China's economy by more than $7 billion, and labor productivity is expected to increase by about 27%. A new generation of artificial intelligence technology, through the commercial needs, especially the demand of the Internet, is infiltrating the traditional industry at an unprecedented speed. For the traditional physical industry, this will be a major opportunity to promote industrial upgrading. Through the in-depth application of a new generation of artificial intelligence technology, it will foster new kinetic energy and create new growth points.

New era artificial intelligence promotes the development of the real economy towards a "smart society" form

In the report of the 19th National Congress, General Secretary Xi Jinping discussed the new scientific concept of “smart society” when accelerating the construction of an innovative country. The concept of "smart society" is the expansion and sublimation of the concept of "artificial intelligence." A smart society is a new type of society with high efficiency, harmony and sustainability as its basic coordinates. It will be a kind of network, system, integrity and openness. It will be a kind of post-agricultural society, industrial society and information society. The more advanced social form is accelerating.

Building a network-structured smart society with artificial intelligence will greatly improve the efficiency of resource science optimization. The use of artificial intelligence technology to conduct infiltration services in society, especially at the city level, is actually the landing of a new concept of serving the real economy. Artificial intelligence technology will certainly play a pivotal role in boosting the construction of a smart society, and a more effective and orderly "smart society" will also become an important support for building a modern economic system. By promoting the development of community building, urban construction, mass entrepreneurship, industrial development and institutional mechanism construction in smart society, artificial intelligence will provide a new impetus for the comprehensive and deepening development of China's economy and society in the new era. Under the guidance of Xi Jinping's new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics, we must accelerate the widespread application of artificial intelligence in the real economy, deepen the development of intelligent entity industries and intelligent productive services, and promote the construction of smart societies to realize social, especially urban management intelligence. To finally meet the needs of the people for a better life.

Enterprises are the key to the integration of real economy and artificial intelligence

In January 2018, in his congratulatory letter to the Fifth National Congress of Individual Workers, General Secretary Xi proposed that the majority of individual and private enterprise operators should "promote entrepreneurship, play the role of entrepreneurs, adhere to the real economy, and implement high-quality development." ", fully demonstrates that enterprises are the main force and force to promote the deep integration of the real economy and artificial intelligence, and revitalize the real economy.

In the process of artificial intelligence gradually integrating into the real economy, enterprises can not only carry out technological innovation at all levels, but also promote various business model innovations. However, enterprises may face greater disadvantages in terms of capital, technology, and market when applying and developing artificial intelligence. The traditional regulatory model may not be compatible with these business model innovations. The new era must adopt more effective policy measures to improve the development environment of enterprises, especially small and medium-sized enterprises.

The conditional areas can be provided to the labor at preferential or free prices through the purchase of services by the government, the basic software necessary for purchasing artificial intelligence, computer vision systems, natural language processing systems, data development platforms, cloud computing services, etc. Enterprise use in the smart field. At the same time, it is necessary to adopt an attitude of tolerance, encouragement and support for various business model innovations, introduce corresponding incentive policies, adopt a model of post-development and post-regulation, and effectively promote the deep integration of the real economy and artificial intelligence.

Wang Fangfang (Deputy Dean and Associate Professor, School of Economics, Guangdong University of Finance and Economics)