Digital Humanity and the Search for Intelligent Twins

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I invite you to close your eyes and imagine the near future — one that’s filled with artificial intelligence and Cloud computing.

Whenever I engage in this thought experiment, I envision data being produced by an autonomous vehicle, an industrial plant, or social media offshoots. Specifically, the data takes its place within a queue to feed software, only to be processed somewhere off in the digital universe and used to increase drive, productivity, and efficiency.

Yet, this vision of the future is incomplete.

Our world will soon be populated with smart cities that free us from the effort of having to search for a parking space, obtain a degree, or even book a medical appointment. In a word, our social and economic activities will change irreversibly over the next 10 years, and in ways, we cannot even imagine.

Such systemic and global restructuring will allow us to evolve and sustain social and economic progress.

While anything is possible in our imaginary sphere, our challenge is to transform these intriguing, albeit complex concepts, into reality. The autonomous vehicle that’s capable of finding its own parking space has built-in sensors and tracking devices; the doctor who takes the initiative to visit us at home receives emergency notifications that are based on algorithms in a global network; and the production plant adapts the speed of production by itself, according to the data it receives from orders. Of course, all of this requires effective and efficient coordination — a boss who’s capable of orchestrating these intricate activities without forgetting anything or stepping away from the office.

Here comes the news.

At Huawei Connect 2020, Huawei announced the Intelligent Twins.

Intelligent Twins leverage cloud as the foundation and AI as the core. With collaboration across the cloud, network, edge, and device, Intelligent Twins enable an intelligent, open system that is capable of all-dimensional perception, all-domain collaboration, precise judgment, and continuous evolution, delivering a smart experience for people, cities, and enterprises in all scenarios.

This level of ingenuity requires an entirely new strategy that leverages a depth and breadth of human knowledge and enables lightning-fast adaptability. More to the point, we need to manage…