IFLYTEK Spark upgrades its code ability and multimodal ability to build everyone’s AI assistant.

On August 15th, the iFLYTEK Spark Cognitive Model V2.0 upgrade conference arrived as scheduled. Liu Qingfeng, Chairman of Iflytek, and Liu Cong, Dean of the Research Institute, released the code capability and multimodal capability upgrade, and at the same time released and upgraded a number of applications and products equipped with V2.0 capability of iFLYTEK Spark Cognitive Model.

Spark Cognitive Model Released (Photo courtesy of Iflytek from Yangguang. com)

Liu Qingfeng said that code ability is the key dimension to support the wisdom of cognitive big model, and multimodal ability is the only way to realize general artificial intelligence, which is also the long-term strategy of artificial intelligence technology in Iflytek. The big future of empowering individuals and industries by big model is coming.

Everyone can program and develop.

Liu Qingfeng, Chairman of Iflytek, released it on the spot (Photo courtesy of Yang Guangwang and Iflytek)

"Code data can enhance the’ wisdom’ of cognitive big model, and code ability is an important symbol of the intelligence of cognitive big model." Liu Qingfeng said that code ability is an effective means to build and link the digital world, which can greatly reduce the threshold and cost of starting a business in the digital economy.

This time, iFLYTEK Spark 2.0 upgraded the code ability in five dimensions, including code generation, code completion, code error correction, code interpretation, unit test generation, etc., so that ordinary people don’t need to be programming experts, but they can improve development efficiency and realize related entrepreneurship by exerting their imagination and based on their knowledge of application scenarios.

In the live demonstration, we used Python to draw a red heart line, draw a three-dimensional diagram of the saddle equation and set up a gradient color, and generate a "greedy snake" with code … "iFLYTEK Spark" was completed one by one, and even the need to use a small video as an expression pack could be quickly solved.

According to Liu Qingfeng, according to HumanEval, a public test set of code ability built by OpenAI, the effect of Spark V1.5 Python language is only 41 points, and V2.0 has reached 61 points, which is close to ChatGPT. According to the test set of real-life code usage scenarios constructed by the State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Intelligence, the dimension of code generation and completion has surpassed that of ChatGPT. According to the plan, iFLYTEK Spark Code will surpass ChatGPT in all dimensions on October 24th this year, and benchmark GPT-4 in the first half of next year.

Programming assistant iFlyCode is online

The upgrading of iFLYTEK Spark code capability not only enables ordinary people to program and develop, but also enables developers to improve efficiency. At the scene, the intelligent programming assistant iFlyCode1.0 was officially released. In Liu Cong, the function of "handwriting in the air" has been realized immediately without writing a single line iFlyCode after a few simple steps of Prompt. In the past, it took even experienced engineers half a day to complete it, but now it only takes a few minutes.

Live demonstration of iFlyCode function (Photo courtesy of Iflytek from Yangguang. com)

According to the statistics of more than 2,000 employees tested and used iFlyCode1.0 in iFLYTEK internal R&D efficiency platform within one month, in some typical scenarios, the code adoption rate reached 30%, the coding efficiency increased by 30%, and the comprehensive efficiency increased by 15%.

"Zero code" ability can also build a digital campus.

The upgrading of iFLYTEK Spark’s code ability, on the one hand, helps professional programmers to improve their efficiency, get rid of tedious routine work, and exert greater creative value, on the other hand, helps non-professional "Little White" enter the code world with zero threshold.

At the press conference, Iflytek released an industrial application case of code ability: teachers with "zero programming foundation" can also use the educational digital pedestal as a development assistant to meet the individual needs and customized development in the digital transformation of school management.

"Please help me build a school leaving management application. Parents can help students apply for leaving school. The application information needs to be approved by the class teacher." Only a simple instruction is needed to complete the application construction on the digital education base. After the voice input of parents’ leave, it becomes an automatic leave note, which is approved by the class teacher online. Teachers can see the list of students consulted today on the class board synchronously, and can also complete the statistics of school leavers under limited conditions according to their needs.

Liu Qingfeng said that the code capability is not only applied to the digital base of education in iFLYTEK, but also widely used in hospitals, universities, enterprises, governments and other different institutions, and it can be built quickly and presented quickly at low cost through iFlyCode.

Multi-modal capability applies multiple scenarios.

Code ability is the key dimension to support the wisdom of cognitive big model, and multimodal ability is the only way to realize general artificial intelligence.

On the same day, Liu Qingfeng released the multimodal ability of iFLYTEK Spark, and iFLYTEK Spark upgraded its image description, image question and answer, image recognition creation, text generation and virtual human synthesis, resulting in "iFLYTEK Zhizuo 2.0" which can create videos, "Spark Teacher’s Assistant" which can help teachers generate courseware with one click, "Spark Language Partner 2.0" which is oriented to students’ oral practice, and so on. "iFLYTEK Spark’s multimodal ability is a measurable model in the industry.

Liu Qingfeng said that at present, multimodal capability has been widely used in education, medical care, industry, automobiles, robots and other fields. It can obtain more and more data from the real world, and has learning, training and upgrading at the product terminal, including more flexible and autonomous industrial robots, better autonomous driving, and companion robots entering the home.

"Multimodal capability is also Iflytek’s established long-term strategy of artificial intelligence technology." In the last three years, Iflytek has won 17 international authoritative evaluation champions in the multimodal field. In early 2022, iFLYTEK released the "iFLYTEK Super Brain 2030 Plan" which includes core competencies such as multimodal perception, deep understanding, multidimensional expression and sports intelligence, so that robots with knowledge, good learning and evolution can enter every family. "With the opportunity of general artificial intelligence, we will strive to build everyone’s AI assistant and release everyone’s unlimited dreams."

Building a new ecology of general artificial intelligence

"The development of artificial intelligence in China is by no means the mission of a single enterprise or a single research institute, but the opportunity of the whole society. The development of ecology determines the prosperity of the industry." Liu Qingfeng said at the press conference that since the release of iFLYTEK Spark on May 6, the number of developers has increased by 282% year-on-year, and the number one in the developer industry distribution is "enterprise service", "indicating that the big model has really begun to be empowered to just need applications."

In addition to the original initiatives such as opening up capabilities, co-construction of industries, and dual-innovation empowerment, Iflytek announced at the press conference that it would further open up the assistant ecosystem, plug-in market and Spark Camp, and build a new ecosystem of general artificial intelligence with the developer team.

Work with the developer team to build a new ecosystem of general artificial intelligence (Photo courtesy of Yangguang. com, Iflytek)

It is reported that there are currently 4,109 assistant developers in iFLYTEK Spark who have developed 7,862 Spark assistants. "We hope to greatly reduce the threshold of innovation and entrepreneurship in society through general artificial intelligence." In addition, iFLYTEK Spark Camp will jointly train leading talents of general artificial intelligence with universities and build a technical exchange platform with developers.

When the iFLYTEK Spark model was first released on May 6th this year, Iflytek announced the milestone of this year’s upgrade, and then iFLYTEK Spark V1.5 and V2.0 were released on June 9th and August 15th respectively as scheduled. On October 24th this year, ChatGPT will be fully benchmarked, with Chinese surpassing and English equivalent, and GPT-4 will be benchmarked next year.

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