At a time when the PC industry is coming to the end of destocking and is returning to the track of growth, AI PC is particularly important for the overall drive of the PC industry. A chip industry practitioner who promotes AI PC told China Business News that how to turn AI applications into a necessity through PCs, not just fun to use, will be the challenge for the next generation transformation of PCs. , but also an opportunity.
Is AI PC different?
What are the differences between AI PCs and PCs of the past?
Yang Yuanqing said that each company has different definitions of AI PC. Some think that as long as it has an NPU (neural network processing unit), it is an AI PC, and some can use large cloud models and so on. In his opinion, AI PC must have five major characteristics: run compressed and performance-optimized AI agents that interact naturally with users; have stronger computing power and support local heterogeneous computing that combines CPU, GPU, and NPU. Power; accommodate more personal life-cycle data and form a personal knowledge base; open artificial intelligence application ecosystem; protect personal data and privacy security.
He said that with these five features, PC will no longer be a Personal Computer, but an AI Personalized Computer.
During the live demonstration, Li Yuansheng, the first station director of China’s Antarctic Kunlun Station and a pioneer in China’s Antarctic deep ice core science, asked the large cloud model connected to “Lenovo Xiaotian”: “Summarize the scientific research projects that I need to focus on recently.” Because Without giving specific areas of expertise, AI listed some projects that may be worthy of attention, such as giant panda protection and research, biological and medical research, chemical waste gas treatment solutions, etc. Li Yuansheng joked: There are no giant pandas in Antarctica, which is too far away from the direction of his research.
Subsequently, when switching to the PC local model to ask the same question, AI provided projects more related to Antarctic research, including the drilling expedition project of the Antarctic Kirin Subglacial Lake, the Antarctic Kunlun Station near-infrared astronomical telescope deployment project, etc., and gave Documentation on related topics.
In other words, AI PC can not only serve as the entrance to a public large model, but also run a personalized private large model independently in an offline environment. It masters the user’s comprehensive personal data and information, and also understands the user better.
A person familiar with the matter revealed to China Business News that Xiaotian Intelligence is based on Alibaba’s Tongyi Qianwen and will serve as an AI assistant to provide personalized services in the future.
In the reporter’s experience, taking PPT that is often used in office scenarios as an example, when opening AI PPT, the user only needs to give a topic or submit a document, and AI can write a PPT outline based on the content, and use the template selected by the user. , converting the revised outline into page-by-page PPT, and the generation time took less than a minute.
In addition, there are applications including AI painter, document summary, knowledge question and answer, AI picture recognition, meeting minutes and other applications. Users can use these AI skills through natural interaction methods such as voice or text questions.
Regarding the series of capabilities of AI PC, Yang Yuanqing believes that AI is like a digital extension and digital mirror of the user. It can even predict the next task based on your thinking mode and behavioral frequency, proactively make suggestions, and find solutions independently, such as reminding users Make family vacation plans and place timely orders to replenish food, daily necessities, etc. Users’ personal data will never be shared or sent to the public cloud unless authorized by the user.
“Personal intelligence even exceeds everyone’s lifespan and will exist forever, allowing humans to achieve immortality in another sense.” Yang Yuanqing said.
However, he emphasized that “AI enhances but does not replace human intelligence,” because AI is essentially a technical means. With its assistance, human imagination will be more easily transformed into reality.