Xinhua News Agency, Nanning, February 24th Title: "Artificial Intelligence +" has given birth to new changes in the industry - visits to many places in the central and western regions

Xinhua News Agency reporters Nong Guanbin, Wu Yanxia, ​​Xie Ben

The converter of the steel plant is installed with "fire eyes", the AI ​​assistants in the hospital have begun to "show their duties", and the AI ​​"quality inspectors" in the workshop have achieved precise quality control... The reporter recently visited many places in the central and western regions that industrial transformation with "artificial intelligence +" is being accelerated, and they have deeply rooted the seeds of AI in thousands of industries.

Look at the application, new scenarios continue to emerge

In the steelmaking plant of Guangxi Iron and Steel Group Co., Ltd., "AI steelmaking" further improves production efficiency. In the early years, workers had to rely on their experience to "break the steel by looking at the fire". The judgment result was greatly affected by personal experience and there was still a certain risk. Nowadays, through various probes and AI algorithms, the color, shape, brightness and other information of flames can be captured and analyzed in real time, and accurately guided feeding and production.

"We 'translate' manual experience into digital language. With the help of AI, we not only reduce the losses caused by artificial misjudgment, but also produce better steel with smaller feedstocks." said Lu Zhijian, a technical expert at Guangxi Iron and Steel Plant.

AI can also extend from the workshop where steel flowers splash to hospitals that save lives and heal the wounded. The Three Gorges Hospital affiliated to Chongqing University recently introduced the DeepSeek big model base and launched a large model application based on local deployment. "Input the patient's main complaint, medical history and other information in the system, click 'Disease Analysis', and you can directly call the big model." Zhang Jianming, director of the Department of Cardiovascular Internal Medicine of Three Gorges Hospital, said that the reply given by the big model includes the patient's possible disease assumptions, recommended examination items, etc., and has become a good assistant for doctors to treat diseases and save lives.

The Development Report of China's New Generation Artificial Intelligence Technology Industry 2024 shows that the development and commercial application of large models have created conditions for the "diffusion" of AI in a larger scope and a wider field. The AI ​​industry innovation scenarios have begun to appear in the central and western regions, jointly promoting the development of my country's AI industry. "The era of using AI technology to lead the transformational development of productivity has arrived." said Tan Hao, deputy director of the Frontier Technology Department of the Hunan Provincial Department of Science and Technology.

Pursuing development, new industries are booming

Turn around, pace, run... In a petrochemical factory, a well-trained "special dog" can not only flexibly avoid obstacles, but can also stay in front of each oil tank for about 10 seconds to scan out the liquid level and pressure inside the tank body through the air, and automatically analyze whether there are safety hazards.

Explosion-proof four-legged robot developed by Qiteng Robot Co., Ltd. (Photo provided by the interviewee)

This is an explosion-proof four-legged robot developed by Qiteng Robot Co., Ltd., located in Liangjiang New District, Chongqing. According to the company's person in charge, compared with the "fixed program + robotic arm" combination of traditional industrial robots, this intelligent robot has the functions of "multimodal perception + brain decision-making" and can adapt to more complex and changeable environments.

"Artificial intelligence has spawned not only technological iteration, but also the reconstruction of the industrial ecosystem." Wang Xiaolin, director of the Institute of New Generation Information Technology, Guangxi Academy of Sciences, said that emerging industries related to artificial intelligence are bursting out with great momentum.

In Hunan, the driverless mines developed by Xidi Zhijia have "running" higher than manual transportation efficiency in mines in many places, accelerating the operation of mines to become smarter and greener; Wanxing Technology has created a "sky" model in the audio and video field, allowing content creators to input text to quickly generate high-definition creative videos. The software and services have covered more than 200 countries and regions. In Guangxi, the robot microbial detection platform of Pinge Intelligent Manufacturing has increased its work efficiency by 14.4% with the "human-management experiment + machine execution" model; the Liuzhou UBL Robot Super Smart Factory project is being built, and will produce industry service scenarios, C-end consumer-grade robot products in the future.

"At present, the new district has 15 smart terminal companies including UBL Robots. In the next step, it will continue to break through and accelerate the formation of an industrial development pattern led by many leading backbone enterprises." A relevant person in charge of the Management Committee of the Northern Ecological New District of Liuzhou City, Guangxi said.

Promote collaboration, and the entire chain is becoming more efficient.

In the smart workshop of Weisheng Group Co., Ltd. in Changsha, a series of smart meters are accelerated to be removed from the line. AI technology is like a "golden thread", connecting the entire production chain: the design link, with the assistance of AI large models, greatly improving the efficiency of product design; in the production link, AI can predict production line failure problems and maintain it in advance, saving nearly 50 million yuan in costs a year; in the quality inspection link, AI cooperates with machine vision and other technologies, greatly improving the accuracy and efficiency of quality inspection.

In the finished workshop of Weisheng Group Intelligent Manufacturing Center, smart devices are undergoing power meter testing. (Photo by Zhu Yilin)

Lu Xinwei, the relevant person in charge of Weisheng Group, said that through the in-depth application of AI, the company has achieved close collaboration between various production links and improved its ability to optimize resource allocation. "It is estimated that after the application of AI, the per capita production efficiency of enterprises will be increased by more than 60%, and the product production cycle will be shortened by 50%. "

Now, AI technology has been deeply embedded in many links in the industrial chain. Western Chuangyuan Zhixing Technology (Chongqing) Co., Ltd. focuses on professional automobile big model platforms and application technologies. The G-VoTest smart cockpit voice interaction AI testing system released in 2024 realizes "testing AI with AI" for the first time, saving 50% of testing time and labor costs. Guangxi Mesda Engineering Machinery Equipment Co., Ltd. realizes "cloud inspection" of crushers in African mines through AI remote diagnosis system, reducing after-sales cost by 40%.

"Data link is a value chain." Wang Xiaolin admitted that AI breaks the traditional production model with its efficient data processing and intelligent decision-making capabilities, promotes information interoperability and collaborative innovation, makes the industrial chain system more open and flexible, and injects strong impetus into industrial development.