On April 27, 2024, the Zhongguancun Forum "Future Artificial Intelligence Pioneer Forum" was held in Beijing. Wang Haifeng, chief technology officer of Baidu, was invited to attend and give a speech, explaining the latest development direction of the big model, and announcing the latest achievements of Wenxin big model and PaddlePaddle deep learning platform.
Wang Haifeng said that since ERNIE Bot was fully opened on August 31 last year, it has grown rapidly. At present, the number of users and daily average volume of calls has exceeded 200 million, the number of customers served has reached 85000, and the number of AI native applications developed has exceeded 190000.
He pointed out that intelligent agents are an important development direction for large models, which will bring more application explosions. Intelligent agents are further trained in thinking enhancement based on the basic model, including supervised fine-tuning of the thinking process, preference learning for behavioral decision-making, and reinforcement learning for result reflection, in order to obtain the thinking model. The thinking model of an intelligent agent, like a human, can read instructions, learn how to use tools, and then call tools to complete tasks.
From trillions of training data, the Wenxin model has learned both natural language skills and coding skills, bridging the process from thinking to execution. Based on the two abilities of the Wenxin model, Baidu has developed code agents and intelligent code assistants. Wang Haifeng said, "Code agents allow everyone to do things that only programmers could do before, and everyone can become a programmer. Intelligent code assistants help professional programmers write better code more efficiently, and can be said to be programmers' AI peers."
Wang Haifeng finally said that artificial intelligence has become an important driving force for a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial reform. To accelerate the development of artificial intelligence, he hopes to promote the transformation of scientific and technological innovation into industrial innovation based on Wenxin and PaddlePaddle, and help achieve self-reliance and self-reliance in high-level science and technology.