AI For Social Good丨Civilization achievements protection

As a new international organization focusing on the Internet, the World Internet Conference (WIC) is committed to building a global Internet platform for extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits. In order to advocate technology-for-social-good concept, guide global parties concerned to use AI technology to bridge the digital divide and promote human well-being, WIC launched the World Internet Conference AI for Social Good Action Plan and solicited the projects globally. The first round of 33 projects received from 23 enterprises and organizations cover cultural exchanges, biodiversity conservation, medical health, accessible transformation, education and training, livable environment and other fields. These projects reflect the development trend where close combination of voice recognition, image recognition, natural language processing, situational awareness and other AI technologies with specific social good scenarios provides more diversified solutions to constantly improving social welfare capabilities.

Douyin Group uses digital technology to reproduce the content of ancient books. Taking advantage of natural language processing, optical character recognition and other technologies, Douyin Group enables the digitization of the ancient books. By logging on to the "Reading Classic Ancient Books" platform, subscribers can efficiently retrieve the contents of ancient books, make photocopies and conduct text comparison reading, convert between simplified and traditional Chinese characters and look up pronunciation and meaning in the dictionary, etc. The "Reading Classic Ancient Books" platform has made more than 1200 ancient books available online free of charge. Among them, the online Yongle Canon HD image database employs Web3D, OpenGL Shading Language and other technologies to restore the light and shadow effect, convert model space, and reconstruct the dispersion track, allowing subscribers to get a more immersive interactive experience.

Google utilizes image recognition and processing technology, as well as 360° panoramic images, to present global artworks and exhibitions in an all-round way. The Google Arts & Culture platform, in collaboration with its partners, uses image recognition and processing and 360° panorama technology to create immersive and engaging online exhibitions that allow subscribers around the world to appreciate the world’s amazing collections and read the stories behind them, anywhere, anytime. The Paris-based Arts and Culture Lab is at the intersection of culture and advanced technology. Using Google’s AI image generation research technology, the Lab creates new experiences for culture lovers of all ages from around the world.To date, the platform has showcased more than 7 million artworks and cultural archives worldwide and hosted more than 22,000 online exhibitions, allowing anyone to feel the charm of arts and culture immersive anytime, anywhere.

SenseTime develops chess-playing robots for family entertainment to carry forward Chinese chess culture. By combining machine vision and highprecision robotic arm technology, SenseTime unveils "SenseRobot" - AI interactive Chinese chess robot for family entertainment, which can achieve "thinking" and "acting" in physical harmony and millimeterlevel accuracy operation. The recognition accuracy of chessboard and chess pieces reaches more than 99.9%, and the positioning accuracy is within 1mm. Robots can serve as a bridge between technology and traditional culture, which helps to better inherit and promote Chinese chess culture.

iFLYTEK combines audio-visual technology to reproduce "Suzhou soft dialect". Due to factors such as population migration and complexity of language environments, some dialects are gradually disappearing. Relying on its leading artificial intelligence technologies including speech recognition and speech synthesis, iFLYTEK has managed to increase the text recognition rate of Suzhou dialect to 84% by continuously accumulating Suzhou soft dialect corpus. The company has also employed digital virtual human technology to create a virtual anchor of Suzhou dialect to enable a more vivid dissemination of the dialects.

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