In recent years, the Internet industry has changed dramatically, and with the opening of the curtain of AI industrialization, it is showing a new development trend. On November 16th, 2017 Baidu World Congress was held in Beijing. Under the theme of "Bring AI to Life", Baidu AI began to be productized.
AI-driven map function iteration brings users an intelligent travel experience.
The 2017 Baidu World Congress announced that AI should enter ordinary people’s homes from laboratories and high-end technology forums and integrate into people’s daily lives. Faced with the increasingly complex travel needs of human society, Baidu Map takes artificial intelligence technology as the core to drive the iteration of the map, upgrading from a single navigation tool to an "intelligent travel steward" that can change the way of human travel, bringing many unprecedented travel experiences to users.
Thanks to the continuous self-evolution of artificial intelligence technology and the increasing strength of R&D technology, the iterative speed of Baidu map update has obviously accelerated. Since the beginning of this year, the intelligent voice technology of Baidu map has made continuous progress. Users can adjust the intelligent voice function by opening Baidu map and shouting "small degree", which can check the route, query point, limit number, weather and other information by voice, and simultaneously support destination change, route change, road condition query and other operations in navigation. "GO Travel" is the first function launched in Baidu map industry, which transcends the limitation of planning routes by means of transportation in traditional map navigation, and combines "taxi+subway" and "cycling+subway" to calculate roads, truly providing optimal and cost-effective travel strategies around users’ needs.
In 2017, artificial intelligence was widely mentioned by people, but for Baidu map, which took the lead in AI, it has long taken the lead in big data, deep learning, human-computer interaction and image recognition. Baidu map has become the "traffic brain" in the era of artificial intelligence with over 80 billion times of location service and over 300 million kilometers of navigation service every day.
"Smart" index "Real", changing the way users travel.
Baidu map not only realizes a high degree of intelligence in functional design, but also brings smarter travel choices, more reasonable time management and more economical travel costs to the public. It also introduces AI technologies such as image recognition and deep learning into map production, driving maps to approach the real world infinitely.
According to the statistics of the Traffic Management Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, by the end of March 2017, the number of motor vehicles in China had exceeded 300 million for the first time, including 200 million vehicles and over 364 million drivers, including 320 million drivers. The users who are "on the road" are large in scale and long enough, which will inevitably bring the problem of congestion.
Baidu map identifies the density of vehicles on the road through AI image recognition technology, which directly hits the essence of "many cars" congestion, effectively solving the congenital problem that traditional map speed calculation relies heavily on trajectory speed, "knowing the speed, but not knowing the number of vehicles". Based on the pioneering "multi-habitat combined collection mode", image deep learning technology, automatic and accurate identification of panoramic images and automatic difference of multi-source data, the efficiency of data collection, processing and updating has been improved exponentially. Baidu Map can help drivers realize "intelligent traffic avoidance" based on big travel data while predicting "traffic jams".
With artificial intelligence as the core, Baidu Map is setting off a revolution in the field of travel, which is based on intelligent voice technology, intelligent blocking avoidance based on big data cloud computing, and personalized travel plan based on user portraits. Baidu map deeply integrates the advantages of artificial intelligence technology with daily travel scenes, realizing the leap-forward transformation from tools to platforms, and bringing people smarter travel choices and more humanized use experience.