Academician of the European Academy of Sciences, Academician of the Japan Academy of Engineering, Ren Fujiji: The future society is an era of "co-dancing" among natural persons, robots, and digital persons.

“In the future society, everyone will have one or more humanoid robots and digital avatars to do a lot of work for us. Now, it takes us 100 hours of work, but in the future, it may only take 10 hours, without the need for overtime.” Recently, at the 22nd China International Software Cooperation Conference (referred to as the “Software Conference”) held in Chengdu, Ren Fujiji, an academician of the European Academy of Sciences, an academician of the Japan Academy of Engineering, and a professor at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, shared his views on the future development of robots and digital humans.

Ren Fujin said that in the future society, the production mode will change, and robots and digital humans will become parallel employees of humans. Natural persons will only account for 5%~10% of the labor force, and more than 90% of the production tasks will be completed by robots and digital humans.

The key point of humanoid robots entering the home scene is to enhance emotional interaction.

The wave of large-scale models in the past two years has promoted the rapid development of artificial intelligence and also brought about the outbreak period of the humanoid robot industry.

It is widely expected in the industry that labor shortages and highly automated automotive production lines will become the first landing scene for humanoid robots. From the perspective of enterprises, Tesla has launched the first humanoid robot prototype Optimus, and domestic car companies such as BYD, Changan, and Saic-Iveco are also actively involved in the field of humanoid robots, demonstrating the accelerating embrace of humanoid robots by automotive companies.

Some believe that humanoid robots will be the next breakthrough after smartphones and new energy vehicles. Some institutions predict that the application of humanoid robots in factories can be achieved as early as 2027, and the application in the consumer market will be between 2028 and 2031.

“Four-legged robots and robotic arms that transport goods have long proven their efficiency and reliability in the industrial field, but in the household domain, humans do not want to be accompanied by a cold machine.” Ren Fujiji believes that for humanoid robots to enter household scenarios, the key is to enhance ‘emotional interaction’.

Ren Fujijiang emphasized that the perception and interaction of humanoid robots depend on software driving, so the value of software is crucial. However, in actual development, hardware still accounts for the majority of the development cost of humanoid robots. Taking the latest emotional robot developed by Ren Fujijiang’s team as an example, hardware costs account for about 80%, while software costs only account for 20%. Ren Fujijiang believes that humanoid robots, especially emotional robots, do not have the value of market promotion and are difficult to commercialize if the proportion of software value does not exceed 60%.

Ren Fujijie mentioned that the humanoid robots currently available only have a human-like appearance and do not have emotional awareness. However, with the development of future artificial intelligence, advanced intelligence with brain intelligence, emotional intelligence, and consciousness will eventually be born. Ren Fujijie predicts that robots with preliminary emotions will enter industrialization within five years.

“Three people” dancing together will lead to a major change in the social production mode.

In the future society, everyone will have their own digital avatar to help us with many things. In addition to robots, Ren Fu emphasized the important role of digital humans in the future society.

Ren Fujie believes that the future society is an era where natural persons, robots, and digital persons ‘three persons’ dance together organically. Natural persons refer to human beings themselves, with biological significance; robots mainly refer to humanoid robots, with lifelike appearance, and empowered by computer technology, they have basic human behaviors such as perception, decision-making, and execution; digital persons refer to the ‘indigenous people’ of the metaverse, virtual characters with digitalized appearance, to some extent, they can replicate human knowledge, emotions, memories, and thoughts.

Ren Fujij further stated that in the scenario of the ‘three-person’ dance, human production efficiency, perception capability, and execution capability will all be greatly improved, leading to significant changes in the social production mode.

In future production, there is a hierarchy among the ‘three individuals’ in terms of identity, with robots and digital humans serving natural humans. However, the three individuals are equal in division of labor, and complete production tasks through mutual cooperation. The workload of natural humans will be greatly reduced, accounting for only 5%~10% of social division of labor, while robots account for 15%~20%, and the remaining 70%~80% is completed by digital humans.

To achieve the “three” dance, the key is how to organically combine the three. “Today’s artificial intelligence is generally more than IQ and insufficient emotional intelligence.” Ren Fuji believes that at this stage, there is still a big gap between the emotional function of robots and digital humans and the human brain. Ren Fuji proposed to combine artificial intelligence, natural intelligence, and emotional computing to build a shared brain of robots, digital humans, and natural people, so that robots and digital humans can have both IQ and emotional intelligence, and be on par with humans in terms of understanding, expression, and thinking.

(Article Source: Daily Economic News)

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