The year of 2018 was defined as the theme year of “Inheriting and Innovating Development” by the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST). The Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI) thoroughly implemented the spirit of the China Association for Science and Technology, and promoted the “three-wheeled” linkage of internationalization, informatization and synergy through the “three rounds” of think tanks, academics and popular science. The organization's outward expansion, vertical and horizontal integration, and active "three-dimensional" network forces promote the reshaping, process recreating and organizational restructuring of the CAAI.

On March 29th, the Chinese Association for  Artificial Intelligence(CAAI) think tank preparation working  meeting was successfully held in Beijing.

More than 20 experts and scholars including CAAI Chairman, Academician Deyi LI of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Academician Qionghai DAI of the Chinese Academy of Engineering attended the conference and held a lively and fruitful discussion on the construction of artificial intelligence think tanks.

Academician Deyi LI emphasized at the meeting that the preparation of artificial intelligence think tank project is the key task of the 2018.

Initiating the construction of think tanks requires vigorously discovering and absorbing the top scientific and technological workers, top-level staff, and top entrepreneurs in the field of artificial intelligence in the country and the world to jointly build think tanks.

Based on the five secondary disciplines concise in the first-level disciplinary report, establish "Basic Brain Cognition", "Machine Perception and Pattern Recognition", "Natural Language Processing and Understanding", "Knowledge Engineering", "Robot" and "Intelligent Systems" six professional direction think tanks, benchmarking the national strategic needs, the world's advanced level and the expectations of science and technology workers, thus creating a forward-looking, strategic, academic and integrated top academic exchange platform and high-end international influence. Innovate think tanks, form the requirements of academic frontier strategic reports, and carry out activities to promote the construction of high-level scientific and technological innovation think tanks.

 Photos of the meeting

The think tank preparatory work meeting conducted a standardized interpretation of the six professional direction think tanks. The meeting established the "Basic Cognition Foundation", "Machine Perception and Pattern Recognition", "Natural Language Processing and Understanding", "Knowledge Engineering", and Robot and "Intelligent Systems" think tank lead experts, lead the research direction and develop standard specifications, build services for CAAI think tanks, guide the artificial intelligence activities, build the "smart society" and effectively improve the capabilities of service science and technology workers. 

Academician Deyi LI

Academician Qionghai DAI

At the same time as the preparation working meeting of the CAAI think tank was held, the construction of the think tank of the institute in the same period echoed the requirements of the special brand activities in the spirit of the theme work of the China Association for Science and Technology, and it also followed the development law of the scientific and technological group organization. The approach will help promote the reform of internal governance structure and governance methods, continuously improve the ability of the society to develop and serve science and technology workers, and explore the unity of innovation and unity to lead science and technology workers in the field of artificial intelligence to participate in the construction of innovative countries and the development of modern economic systems. Institutional mechanisms and path initiatives.
As the only national first-level society in the field of artificial intelligence, CAAI has the advantage of “land advantage” and coincides with the best opportunity of the current artificial intelligence boom. Learning how to play a greater role in “human harmony” is to guide the future of learning. Important content of work.

The construction of the CAAI think tank is an important measure to build the “Human Harmony” of the Science and Technology Innovation Think Tank of the China Association for Science and Technology, which will promote the strategic support, international influence and the mass organization to achieve a new leap in CAAI development.

Group photo of CAAI think tank preparation meeting