Enthusiasm high at AI conference in Taiyuan

The 2020 China (Taiyuan) Artificial Intelligence (AI) Conference opened on Oct 31 in Taiyuan, the capital city of North China's Shanxi province.

The conference will run until Nov 3 and is hosted by the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, Chinese Association of Automation, Institute of Software at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, CPC Taiyuan Municipal Committee, Taiyuan's municipal government, Shanxi Science and Technology Department and Shanxi Department of Industry and Information Technology.

It aims to build a high-end platform dedicated to cooperative research, development and application, technical exchange and investment attraction. It will also promote the development of the digital economy and AI and IT application innovation industries, providing new momentum for the high-quality transformation and development of Taiyuan and Shanxi.

The conference is being attended by academicians from the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, entrepreneurs from leading IT and internet enterprises – such as Huawei, Alibaba, iFLYTEK and China Electronics Co – and researchers. Many of these attendees are delivering speeches on the development of AI and IT application innovation industries.