The audience's eyes and ears were particularly focused on one person. Zhang Yachin, director of Tsinghua University's AI Industry Research Institute and a Chinese Academy of Processors (chief scientist), who attended as a debater, are the main characters. The audience paid attention to every word and gesture he made. After the discussion, most of the questions poured out from the audience were directed at him.
During the session, Jang diagnosed, "The emergence of Dipsyck, a 'cost-effectiveness AI model' earlier this year, is the biggest innovation in the AI industry over the past two years," and predicted, "After that, autonomous vehicles will be implemented first." In other words, AI will be actively applied in the field of self-driving vehicles next to generative AI.
Jang met with Maeil Business Newspaper on the same day and mentioned the Korean AI industry. "Korea has the world's best technology in large-scale language models (LLM) and Generative AI," he said. "It is supported by high-tech infrastructure such as semiconductor industry and wireless network." Director Jang saw that there is room for Korean companies to cooperate with Chinese tech companies that are drawing attention from all over the world with the emergence of Dipsyk, which developed a "cost-effectiveness AI model" earlier this year. As the introduction of AI is inevitable in various fields such as education, medical care, pharmaceuticals, and climate, there are many needs for cooperation between the two sides.
Zhang is called a "genius of the IT industry" in China. At the age of 12, he received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from George Washington University in the U.S. at the age of 23. After serving as Microsoft China's representative, he served as Baidu's president for five years from 2014 at the invitation of Baidu Chairman Li Yanhong's Samgo. It has been moved to Tsinghua University since 2020.
[Bao correspondent Song Kwang-seop]
