Ji Tongkai, Chairman, Secretary and research fellow of Cloud Computing Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences, gave a lecture titled Development of Artificial Intelligence and New Media to teachers and students of NKU School of Journalism and Communication in Conference Room 215 of Xiushan Hall on the afternoon of December 14. The meeting was chaired by Liu Yadong, Dean of the school.
Ji has been devoting to the research and development of underlying systems and applications for cloud computing and big data. He shared the basic concepts and development history of artificial intelligence, introduced its three major schools and core technologies, analyzed the status quo of the artificial intelligence industry, and comprehensively introduced and elaborated on the discipline and industry overview of artificial intelligence.
On the basis of discussing issues related to artificial intelligence, Ji briefly expounded the concept, characteristics, and development forms of new media, saying media, as a means of communication, shows a trend of increasing generalization and popularity. He encouraged students to broaden their horizon in learning and research.
Ji also analyzed the current conditions and significance of the AI application in new media, believing that AI technology can promote information dissemination, improve media efficiency, create new industrial models, and boost the diversified development of the new media industry. Meanwhile, he also pointed out ethical and legal challenges are inevitable in the combination of the AI and new media.
Ji predicted the perspective of the combination of AI and new media, which, he believed, would present a trend of diversified integration, open cooperation, diversely interactive AIGC, career in substitution for improvement, business development in place of decision-making process, as well as contents of dispersed focus. He made a comprehensive outlook on the future of the combination of AI and new media.
At the end of the lecture, Ji Tongkai made a summary, put forward some considerations, and exchanged ideas with the teachers and students on issues such as research on big data teaching in universities and China’s development trends of AI and new media.
