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Recently, eight departments including the Ministry of Commerce issued the “Implementation Opinions on Accelerating the Development of “Artificial Intelligence + Consumption” (hereinafter referred to as the “Opinions”), launching 17 measures to vigorously promote the development of “Artificial Intelligence + Consumption”.
The “Opinions” focus on expanding the consumption of artificial intelligence + services, and clarify the specific direction of the application of artificial intelligence technology from home, elderly care, cultural tourism, accommodation and catering, education and teaching and other scenarios.
At the same time, it is also required to increase the consumption of artificial intelligence + products by accelerating the launch of new generation smart home products, strengthening the research and development and promotion of new products such as artificial intelligence glasses, and accelerating the application demonstration of new artificial intelligence products such as elderly care robots, companion robots, and artificial intelligence life assistants.
The person in charge of the Market Construction Department of the Ministry of Commerce said: “In recent years, artificial intelligence technology has developed rapidly and penetrated into the consumer field, giving birth to new products and new services, and stimulating new consumer demand; accelerating the development of ‘artificial intelligence + consumption’ will help create new growth points for consumption, promote the improvement and expansion of consumption, and better meet the people’s needs for a better life.”
Specifically, this “Opinion” has a relatively concentrated deployment on the service consumption level, and 5 of the 17 measures are related to this.
The “Opinions” clarify that it is necessary to promote the in-depth integration of artificial intelligence with services such as home care, elderly care, cultural tourism, accommodation and catering, and education and teaching, promote the intelligent upgrading of the life service industry, accelerate the application verification and iterative upgrade of intelligent products in homes, communities, elderly care institutions, tourist attractions, teaching classrooms and other scenarios, innovate application scenarios, and promote artificial intelligence to better empower service consumption.
In view of the current smart home industry, which is relatively mature in the field of artificial intelligence application, the “Opinions” proposes to accelerate the popularization of smart sweeping robots, smart refrigerators, smart kitchen equipment and other products; study the inclusion of smart home and service applications into the “good house” construction guidelines, and accelerate the application of artificial intelligence technology in the construction of “good houses”.
In the field of “one elder and one child” that is currently attracting much attention, the “Opinions” clarify that it will guide elderly care service institutions to use artificial intelligence technology, lay out information management, intelligent security and other technical systems, and equip intelligent nursing robots, rehabilitation robots and other products; carry out the construction of intelligent elderly care service robots
We will conduct pilot projects on key research and scenario applications, accelerate the verification and iterative upgrades of smart products in scenarios such as homes, communities, and elderly care institutions; promote the research and development of artificial intelligence education terminal products such as artificial intelligence-assisted learning assistants and teacher intelligent assistants, and innovate new models of human-machine collaborative education and teaching such as intelligent learning companions and intelligent teachers.
At the same time, commodity consumption is also an important carrier for the application of artificial intelligence technology.
The “Opinions” proposed to increase the new supply of artificial intelligence products and expand the consumption of new generation intelligent products such as artificial intelligence mobile phones and computers, smart homes, intelligent connected cars, smart wearables, and artificial intelligence robots.
Build a platform for the first launch of artificial intelligence products, support the first launch of artificial intelligence products, and organize the “Artificial Intelligence into Ten Thousand Households” event.
At the level of consumer environment construction, the “Opinions” also make it clear that financial and other financial support will be increased.
Specific measures include implementing new policies for purchasing new digital and smart products, encouraging local governments to independently formulate and implement subsidy policies within the framework of the trade-in policy for consumer goods, focusing on supporting the consumption of new generation smart terminals with clear “artificial intelligence +” actions; making good use of fiscal discount policies for personal consumption loans to support consumers in purchasing artificial intelligence-related products; encouraging financial institutions to develop related financial products and services around consumers’ financial needs for purchasing artificial intelligence products, etc.
In addition, the “Opinions” also emphasize that in conjunction with the “vehicle-road-cloud integration” application pilot and other work, in order to meet the application needs of intelligent network-connected vehicles, urban unmanned delivery vehicles and other application needs, urban smart facilities such as intelligent roadside infrastructure, edge computing power, and traffic safety comprehensive service management platforms should be laid out appropriately in advance.
