In 2022, the five major technologies highlight the new trend of intelligent life.

Human fireworks have been consistent for thousands of years, but the development of science and technology is changing with each passing day, and its influence on human beings is becoming more and more complicated. In a recent report, Forbes biweekly website listed five technical trends in 2022, including the ubiquity of artificial intelligence (AI), the acceleration of digitalization and virtualization in the whole society, the code-free revolution in full swing, the growing voice of technical supervision, and the increasing popularity of renewable energy and new energy.

Artificial intelligence is everywhere.

AI-driven devices, usually machine learning algorithms, will help us in more and more innovative ways. For example, smart cars will use facial recognition algorithms to detect whether drivers pay attention to road conditions and send reminders when drivers feel tired and tired; Smartphones use artificial intelligence algorithms to do everything, from maintaining the quality of calls to helping us take better photos. Even the coming smart toilet is the same-it can help diagnose gastrointestinal problems by analyzing stool samples!

Artificial intelligence has penetrated into various tools in our daily life-from voice assistants to language translation, and tools that allow us to extract structured data from pictures and handwritten notes. AI also provides power for many process automation, reducing the workload and pressure of employees in management, logistics, accounting and human resources departments.

In 2022, the collaborative work of AI, the Internet of Things and emerging ultra-high-speed networks (such as 5G) will greatly increase our capabilities in all aspects, and the growing amount of data, faster network and processor speed will merge together, and the impact on society will far exceed the impact of a single factor.

No code interface is more popular.

Another driving force of social development will be the continuous democratization of data and technology. In recent years, a new industry has emerged, whose goal is to let more members of society enjoy the fruits of technological development and use technology to lead the skills and tools needed for innovation.

Code-free interfaces will become more popular! OpenAI, founded by elon musk and funded by Microsoft, announced Codex in August this year, which is a programming model that can translate human spoken language into code. It can translate English into code, aiming at reducing the workload of professional programmers and helping amateurs to code.

In 2022, such technology will become more and more mature. Ready-made artificial intelligence solutions will be applicable to everything from marketing to human resources, project management and the planning and design of production processes.

The trend of digitalization and virtualization is accelerating.

In 2022, the whole society will accelerate towards digitalization and virtualization, and the "hyperuniverse" will be closer and closer to our lives.

Ericsson, for example, provided virtual reality headsets for employees who worked at home during the COVID-19 epidemic, and is also developing the so-called "Perceptual Internet". The company previously released a report saying that consumers expect to perceive the Internet in 2030, when it will be difficult for consumers to distinguish between virtual experience and reality. In 2022, when the new film The Matrix is about to be released, we will be closer to the world described in The Matrix.

The voice of supervising AI is getting louder and louder.

Facebook's AI tool recently identified the black people in the Daily Mail video as "primates", and then the company spokesman apologized for this "unacceptable mistake". In fact, this is not the first time that AI has gone wrong. Last year, the facial recognition system led to the wrongful arrest of two black people in Detroit.

In view of this, in recent years, transparent and interpretable AI has become more and more popular. The government is also clearly aware of the need for a regulatory framework. The proposed EU legislation prohibits the government and relevant departments from using AI to create social scoring systems and using facial recognition tools in public places. It also lists a series of potential dangerous effects, including "exploiting loopholes" and "causing physical or psychological harm". AI solution providers must prove that their systems will not cause these impacts before they are allowed to sell.

But sundar pichai, Google's chief executive, said that although he recognized the need to regulate artificial intelligence, he "needed a balance" to ensure that innovation was not stifled.

As more and more people realize the positive and negative impacts that AI and other technological trends may bring to society, how to find the "balance point" mentioned by Pichai will become a hot topic in 2022.

Sustainable energy is more and more popular.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that the production and use of renewable energy will increase by 40% in 2020 compared with the previous year, and predicts that this growth will continue until 2022. In addition, the power generation cost of various renewable energy sources such as onshore and offshore wind energy, solar energy and tidal energy decreased by 7%- 16%. Exciting new energy sources, such as biofuels, liquid hydrogen and even nuclear fusion, are becoming more and more feasible.

According to the World Nuclear News website, Helion Energy Company of the United States announced on June 22nd that its sixth prototype fusion generator Trenta reached a high temperature of over 1 100 million degrees Celsius, becoming the first private fusion research enterprise in the world to achieve this milestone. It is expected that the latest prototype fusion generator will be launched in 2022.

In addition, the "green hydrogen" energy field is also expected to add more green to the whole world. In 2020, "green hydrogen" will become the preferred green fuel in many countries in the future. Within one year, the "Green Hydrogen" project with a total amount of more than 654.38+050 billion dollars was announced worldwide. It is expected that this trend will be further highlighted in 2022.

Editor/Fan Hui