Intelligently Connecting People with Information

How to effectively connect people with information is a fundamental problem in human society. We are now in the era of mobile first, and everything is digitally connected. With the advent of diverse social contents, information feeds have become a new way to connect people with information. Thus, there is a pretty good opportunity for artificial intelligence (AI) to make innovations in this direction. AI can make more efficient and intelligent the creation, moderation, dissemination, searching, consumption, and interaction of information and contents. As an industry leader in the product platform and service of information feeds, Toutiao takes the lead to develop and leverage diverse machine learning techniques to efficiently process, analyze, mine, understand, and organize a large amount of multimedia data. Meanwhile, owning to its rich application scenarios and active users all over the world, we have accumulated huge amount of training data, which makes the machine learning system form a closed feedback loop and thus can continually improve and evolve itself. This closed-loop system enables Toutiao to develop core AI technologies in large-scale machine learning, text analysis, natural language processing, computer vision, and data mining. In this talk, I will share some personal opinions to the development prospects of AI in this fundamental area, including my understanding to AI, important research progress in recent years, the influence of AI to the software industry, and how to build the core competence strategy of AI in a company. Moreover, I will also introduce some research progress of Toutiao AI Lab.