11月27日上午，在2021亚洲青年领袖论坛开幕式上，科大讯飞股份有限公司董事长刘庆峰发表了题为《人工智能技术引领亚洲新未来的三大趋势》的主旨演讲。

原文如下：

今天我们大家在此欢聚一堂，共同探讨亚洲新未来，探讨青年朋友们如何加强合作，共同推动构建人类命运共同体，创造更加美好的未来，我在此想与大家分享关于人工智能技术所带来的亚洲新未来的三大重要的趋势。

第一个趋势是，人工智能技术在未来十四五期间以及未来十年之内，必将建成人类语言的巴别塔，推动我们亚洲青年更好地沟通和交流。应该说，只有语言的相互交流、深度理解，才能推动真正的更好的合作共赢。而今天，人工智能技术的进展已经使得我们的机器翻译通过了中国国家翻译师资格考试，而在大学六级考试中，超过99%的大学六级考生是研究生。而我想告诉大家，机器翻译绝不仅仅是针对中文，而是已经有60多个语种，覆盖了全世界200个国家和地区。就在一周前，由美国国家标准与技术研究院（NIST）组织的全球多语种语音识别大赛中，一共15个语种，科大讯飞都获得了全世界第一名。我想，这是讯飞的骄傲，也是我们亚洲科技的骄傲，因为这项技术的进展，我们一直孜孜追求的人类语言的巴别塔必将在未来建成，它将更好地推动亚洲的新未来，一个更加互信、更加充分沟通合作、更美好的新未来。

第二个趋势是，人工智能技术最新进展将推动我们亚洲的教育、医疗这两个最受关注的民生事业再上一个全新的台阶。我们科大讯飞的梦想是让机器不仅像人一样能听会说，还要能理解会思考，用人工智能建设美好世界。而在机器的理解和思考上，在过去两年中，我们的机器在全世界最权威的机器阅读理解大赛——美国斯坦福大学牵头的SQUID大赛的英文比赛中已经超过了人类的平均水平，因而机器可以学习各个领域的知识。

以我们今天特别关注的疫情防控和基层医疗来看，机器已经通过了中国国家职业医师资格考试，超过了96.3%的参加考试的医生。大家知道这个考试满分600分，录取分数线360分，医学专业毕业的学生工作几年后，参加考试只有一半能过。我们在全球首次让机器具备了全科医生的潜质，而这样一个系统已经在中国经过了从核心技术到产品试点应用到规模推广的非常关键的过程。现在已经在240个县区开始推广应用，在过去两年内给2.8亿基层老百姓进行了辅助诊疗，不改变基层医生的任何操作习惯，如果他看病有问题，就由人工智能会诊医生给他提醒。你说是高血压，我认为是脑梗，我就会告诉你脑梗和高血压有什么差别，应该再问哪些内容，要检查哪些。

仅以安徽为例，所有村医工作室、乡镇卫生院、社区院已经全部常态化使用，去年一年修订了97万基层老百姓的第一次诊断，救了很多人命，节约了很多医保费用，而且使得医生的诊疗能力每看一个病例就会得到学习和进步，大幅提升了基层医生的能力，而此前很难进行个性化培训。这样的系统已经在南沙开始使用。其实，在此基础上针对六大症候群、44个法定传染病，机器都可以自动判断，在基层医生没有感觉的时候，机器已经知道这个重大传染病并开始预警。把习近平总书记所要求的重大疾病和疫情防控的多点触发、智慧化防控的体系真正能够建立起来。所以我们在武汉封城之后，用人工智能的语音技术，加上对新冠肺炎的医疗能力，一个机器可以代替几百上千人，给每个家庭做电话排查，一百万家庭六个小时就做完了。韩语版的系统在韩国大邱上线以后，得以在全韩国推广。我想，这样的技术既能够提升我们基层的诊疗能力，又可以提升我们传染病的防控能力，将会为整个亚洲人民的健康带来全新的不一样的未来。

关于教育，今天我们认知智能技术的进展不仅在数理化上可以精准分析孩子的薄弱环节，从而因材施教减少大量无效重复的学习时间，而且改作文都比人还准。不论是中国的高考语文、还是雅思的英语口语和英语作文，机器都已经超过人类水平，从而可以让最偏远地区的孩子，能够得到和发达城市里面的孩子一样的教育。人工智能赋能教育，使得贫穷的代际传承可以被阻断，使得我们每个孩子每个家庭，可持续地以教育创造全新的未来，我想这些技术都不仅在中国成功了，我们将赋能整个亚洲。

第三个趋势，不仅对教育医疗这些民生事业，人工智能还对整个数字平衡，整个弱势群体以及科技适老带来全新的帮助。老年人对APP的应用不习惯，眼睛不好不方便操作，他可以说话，打12345电话。不仅可以对独居老人进行更好的家庭管理，包括老人们点餐、叫车、网上挂号都可以做成，还可以模仿他们的孩子，在家里给他读书读报讲故事。那么，聋人听不见声音，他可以通过语音识别来变成看得见的文字，盲人看不见文字可以用语音读出来。所以这次北京冬奥会专门设了自动语音转换和翻译的供应商，科大讯飞有幸成为独家供应商。我们就是要打造人类历史上首次信息沟通无障碍的奥运会，我们相信人工智能技术进展将使得每一个特别的群体、每一个弱势群体和需要关爱的群体拥有更加温暖的未来。

当然，人工智能在工业赋能中，无论是生产制造还是工业管理，无论是销售还是质量控制等，在越来越多的领域都可以发挥非常重要的作用。可以说未来的幸福中国、工业强国必须靠人工智能，未来的幸福亚洲、工业强国的亚洲也必须依靠人工智能，而这个技术绝对不是单个龙头企业可以做成的，一定要有一个开放的生态。科大讯飞已经把我们400多项人工智能的能力开放给全世界的创业者。去年10月份，我们的开发者团队数量是157万家，今年10月份已经到了265万家，一年内新增了108万的实名认证的开发者团队，相当每个月增加9万开发者团队，已经形成一个非常好的生态。我们相信在这个生态下，亚洲青年从产业合作、民生事业的合作以及对于扶贫事业的合作，都可以有更大的空间。我们也期待着大家在人工智能时代，在数据治理、数据安全、隐私保护以及伦理、人文方面能够展开更全面的合作，期待着青年人一起团结起来。在数字经济时代，在人工智能深刻改变这个世界的生产和生活方式的时候，我们亚洲青年能够在全球引领，能够团结合作，共创更加美好的亚洲新未来。


On 27 November, Liu Qingfeng, Chairman of iFlytek Co., Ltd., delivered a keynote speech titled “Three Trends in AI Technology that Will Usher in a New Era for Asia” at the Asia Youth Leaders Forum 2021.

The full speech is as below.

We gather here today to discuss the new future of Asia and how our young friends can strengthen cooperation and work together to promote a better and shared future with common destiny. I want to share with you three important trends regarding the new future of Asia brought by AI technology:

The first trend is that AI technology will undoubtedly build the Tower of Babel for human languages in the coming 14th Five-Year Plan period and the next decade, promoting better communication and exchange between Asian youth. It should be said that only mutual communication and a deep understanding of languages can promote better cooperation and a win-win situation. Today's progress of AI technology has enabled our machine translation to pass the China Accreditation Test for Translators and Interpreters and surpass 99% of candidates of the CET-6 examination which is designed for graduate students. I want to tell you that this is definitely not just for Chinese. There are now more than 60 languages, covering 200 countries and regions worldwide. Just one week ago, in a global multilingual speech recognition competition organized by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), iFlytek won the first place in the world in all 15 languages, which I think is a pride for iFlytek and also a pride for our Asian technology. Because of the progress of this technology, I think the Tower of Babel for human languages that we have been pursuing will be built in the future. It will better promote a new future of Asia, a new future with greater mutual trust, better communication and cooperation, and more prosperity.

Secondly, the latest advances in AI technology will drive Asia's education and health care, two of the most relevant livelihood issues, to a whole new level. Our dream at iFlytek is to build a better world with AI by making machines not only listen and speak but also understand and think like humans. In terms of machine understanding and thinking, in the past two years, we have enabled machines to surpass the human average in English in the world's most authoritative machine-reading comprehension competition, the SQuAD challenge by Stanford University. Thus, machines are able to acquire knowledge in various fields.

When talking about the pandemic prevention and control as well as the primary medical care to which we are paying particular attention, our machine has passed China's Qualification Examination for Medical Practitioners, surpassing 96.3% of the people who took the exam. For your information, the full score of the examination is 600, the passing score being 360, and only half of the medical graduates with a few years of working experience pass the exam. This means that the machine has the potential of a general practitioner for the first time in the world. Such a system has already gone through a critical process in China, from technology to product pilot and large-scale applications. It has been applied in 240 counties and districts in China now and provided assistance to the diagnosis and treatment of 280 million residents at the grassroots level, without changing any practicing habits of grassroots doctors. When it detects a potential misjudgment of a human doctor, the AI will remind the doctor. Suppose the human doctor thinks it is hypertension while the AI thinks it is a cerebral infarction. In that case, the AI will prompt the differences between hypertension and cerebral infarction and what should be asked again and what should be checked of the patient. 

For example, in Anhui alone, it has been used in all village doctors' clinics, township health centers, and community hospitals regularly. It has revised the initial diagnosis of 970,000 patients last year, saving many lives and a large number of medical insurance costs and, at the same time, improving the doctors' diagnosis and treatment abilities with each patient. In the past, such training is hard to be personalized. Now, this kind of system has already been used in Nansha District. The machine can automatically determine 6 major syndromes and 44 statutory infectious diseases on this basis. When grassroots doctors do not discover the cause, AI will be able to discern a certain major infectious disease and initiate early warning, so that we can actually establish the multi-point trigger and intelligent prevention and control system for major diseases as well as pandemic, as stated by General Secretary Xi Jinping. Therefore, during the lockdown of Wuhan, we used AI voice technology coupled with the medical capability to fight against COVID-19. We used a machine instead of hundreds or thousands of people to do telephone screening of families. The screening of 1 million households was finished in 6 hours. After the Korean version went live in Daegu, Korea, it was promoted throughout Korea. I think such technology can improve both the ability of treatment at the grassroots level and the ability to prevent and control infectious diseases, bringing a new and different future for the health of Asian people.

Then, education. Today, the recent progress of our cognitive intelligence technology can accurately pinpoint the weaknesses of children in mathematics, science, and chemistry, thereby providing customized teaching according to their needs and reducing the amount of time spent on ineffective repetitive learning. The composition correction is more accurate than humans. The machine has surpassed the human not only in the Chinese subject of China’s college entrance examination, but also the IELTS English speaking and English composition. This means that children in the most remote areas can get the same AI-empowered education as the children in developed cities. The inter-generational transmission of poverty can be interrupted, and a new future through education can be guaranteed for each child and each family. I think the success of these technologies is not only limited to China. We will empower the whole Asia with such applications.

Third. In addition to livelihood issues such as education and healthcare, AI also lends a new help to the overall digital balance, the vulnerable, and the technology for the elderly. Elderly people are not used to applications, and due to poor sight, they have difficulties in interacting with applications. However, they can talk and make calls such as 12345. AI can help with the care for elderly people who live alone, including ordering food, calling a taxi, or making hospital registrations online. It can also imitate the voice of their children to read books, newspapers, and stories to them at home. For deaf people, AI can transform the text to voice. For blind people, AI can read the text out loud. That's why Beijing Winter Olympic Games looked for automatic voice conversion and translation providers. iFlytek is honored to be the exclusive provider. We will create the first Olympic Games with barrier-free information communication in human history. We believe that the progress of AI technology will usher every special group, every vulnerable group, and every in-need group in a warmer future.

Of course, artificial intelligence can play a crucial role in more and more areas in industrial empowerment, whether in manufacturing, industrial management, sales, or quality control. It can be said that China's future and industrial strengths must rely on artificial intelligence, and the future happiness and industrial power of Asia must rely on artificial intelligence as well. This technology is definitely not something a single leading enterprise can do, and there must be an open ecosystem. iFlytek has authorized the use of more than 400 AI capabilities to entrepreneurs around the world. In October last year, the number of our developer teams was 1.57 million. This October, it has reached 2.65 million, adding 1.08 million real-name certified developer teams in one year, equivalent to an increase of 90,000 developer teams every month, which has formed a good ecosystem. We believe that Asian youth will have more space of cooperation in industry, livelihood, and poverty alleviation within this ecosystem. We also look forward to more comprehensive cooperation in data governance, data security, privacy protection, ethics, and artificial intelligence. I look forward to seeing youth work together, so that in the era of the digital economy when AI is profoundly changing the way of production and life, we, the youth of Asia, can lead globally and unite and cooperate to create a new and better future for Asia.