On July 28th, it was reported that Wang Jian, founder of Alibaba Group's cloud computing and AI department, stated that 90% of the numerous AI technologies and applications that have emerged since the ChatGPT craze may disappear within ten years. Wang Jian believes that although OpenAI has brought AI into the mainstream market, it has also caused people's "bias" towards AI capabilities. The public's attention to chatbots has been ignited, but the application scope of AI is far beyond that.
He pointed out that developers need to eliminate noise and think about application scenarios with more creative thinking in order to push AI into the next stage of development. Wang Jian said, 'I believe that 90% of the AI content currently being discussed by people may disappear within five to ten years, because these are not the essence of technology.'. But this is not a bad thing, it actually helps us explore. ”
In addition, regarding the recent practice of high paying talent poaching by companies such as OpenAI and Meta, Wang Jian believes that "Silicon Valley's approach is not the way to success, what really matters is innovation. So in the early stages of innovation, I don't think talent is a problem, because the only thing you need to do is find the right people, not the expensive ones." Wang Jian also admitted that he did not expect the AI revolution to come so quickly nearly twenty years ago, and all he could imagine at that time was that computing would be as important as electricity or oil.
