According to a November 7 report from Sina Technology, several teams from Chinese tech giant Alibaba are collaborating to develop a device interaction engine that digital people will take over completely. The first digital person + device product is expected to be available to users in the first quarter of 2023. The project brings together Alibaba Dharma Academy’s natural language processing, speech, vision, 3D construction drivers, large-scale models and other teams, as well as AliGenie interaction system experts.
Just as finger touchscreens laid the foundation for smartphone interaction, large-scale digital humans will take over the future of intelligent interactions. From this year, the Dharma Academy’s multi-modal model is being applied to voice search scripts and Ali Jini’s encyclopedia. Currently, all relevant teams are promoting its application in the system and user experience of Ali Genie interaction.
Lu Yong, head of product planning at AliGenie, said AliGenie connected devices have reached more than 40 million households, including 460 million connected products from over 1,600 brands, enabling digital people to interact with users in a sustainable and large environment. scale way. Scale and compositional scenarios.
AliGenie previously announced that smart speakers make over 8 billion interactions per month, 70% of which are active services. Many consumer equipment manufacturers are also looking to provide intelligence that goes beyond a single connection and conversation with a single device.
At the 2022 Feitian conference held on Nov. 3, Alibaba researcher Bruce Lee revealed that over the past two years, DAMO Academy has accumulated 100 patents and conference papers in various fields, including multi-modal large models, speech, natural language, and 3D Build the driver. By testing these results in several interaction scenarios, a digital human engine was formed based on a multimodal large model.
During the 2022 Winter Olympics, Alibaba launched a digital person named Dongdong. In an interview in March this year, Bruce Lee said that Dongdong is a real digital person controlled by real-time artificial intelligence. It can chat with people and answer questions in real time without making an appointment or preparation, and even participate in talk shows, providing users with an immersive experience.
Li Keqiang said that Alibaba’s attempts at digital human business arose from its previous accumulation in the intelligent customer service business, and it is still in the profit exploration period. For this process, Li said he was taking his time and showed that “research and testing is needed. It took about five years for intelligent customer service to enter the stage of large-scale commercialization.”
In terms of e-commerce scenarios, Li predicted in a March interview that digital people could reach an annual market size of 70 to 100 billion yuan ($9.6 to $13.8 billion) within five years. In terms of the total digital human market size, the “2021 Virtual Digital Human Depth Industry Report” predicts that China’s total market size will reach 270 billion yuan by 2030, with a wide range of applications.
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Post time: Nov-14-2022