From Speech AI, 5G to Autonomous Driving; find out the top 10 tech trends in 2019 - Express Computer

Alibaba DAMO Academy, the global research program launched by Alibaba in 2017, has published its predictions for the Top 10 technology trends in 2019. From speech AI, super-large graph neural networks, heterogenous computing architecture, to autonomous driving, blockchain and data protection technologies, machine intelligence has been generating great impacts on our lives, and an accelerated pace of technology revolution is expected in the year ahead. Real-time urban simulation becomes possible More resources will be allocated to technologies powering an intelligent "city brain" and its applications, while a city simulation model reflecting the real-time impulses and movements of a physical city can be built to facilitate the optimisation of city governance. More cities in China are expected to have a "city brain" in 2019. Speech AI in certain areas to pass Turing Test As speech intelligence technology advances, realtime text-to-speech on mobile devices would be almost identical to human speech, even passing the Turing test in certain conversations, such as ones using a robotic voice to alert about delivery status.