Technological progress has led us to a point where what was only fantasy a few years ago is now reality. We talk about artificial intelligence, which without realizing it, is everywhere, even in our smartphone. The same MIUI 10 of Xiaomi integrates the AI in a massive way and it is the flagship so much that a whole team of the company is dedicated to the development of new technology. Today, through an official announcement, Xiaomi tells us that he has acquired in his team the professor Wnag Bin, who boasts a doctorate at the Institute of Information Engineering, researcher of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In fact it is already from the 20 August that Wang Bin has formally joined the Xiaomi group as chief scientist of the Natural Language Processing (NLP) project at the AI Lab. He will be responsible for building the basic language processing platform natural and exploration and innovation of cutting-edge technologies.
Wang Bin
According to the data, Wang Bin is a well-known expert in information retrieval and natural language processing. Before joining the Xiaomi Group, Dr. Wang Bin was director of the Institute of Information Technology, the Institute of Information Engineering and the Institute of Information and Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and of course Professor university.
An important AI professor arrives in Xiaomi's leadership
His entry into Xiaomi, Wnag Bin commented as follows:
I am honored to be part of this family and company, with the hope that the future will allow us to achieve together the result of bringing innovation through the union of science and technology in China and abroad, addressing the academic world, the community entrepreneurship and AI developers, to make the advantage of this technology available to the users! "
Lei Jun is already from October of 2016 that has realized that the future is linked to the Internet and the development of the IoT, and the transition to artificial intelligence is part of the development of the company's expansion strategy. In the future, artificial intelligence will be the heart and soul of Xiaomi that will offer not only hardware but more and more internet services.
