Suddenly, like a night wind blowing, as if the pear trees blooming.  This ancient poem of more than 1,000 years ago can be aptly used to describe the current artificial intelligence.  Artificial intelligence is too hot, the fire is too fast, let a person unexpected.  Han Liqun, director of the Intelligent Products and Industry Working Committee of the Chinese Association of Artificial Intelligence, felt this way. She remembered the scene of campaigning with her colleagues for the establishment of an artificial intelligence specialty more than ten years ago: ' At that time, many people shunned artificial intelligence and others thought it was pseudoscience.'

 Nowadays, artificial intelligence has become a hot topic.  In the face of the artificial intelligence specialty set up by colleges and universities, and a vast array of artificial intelligence products, Han Liqun believes that many of them blindly follow the trend, ' this is a very dangerous trend.'

 This is not the feeling of Han Liqun alone.  Many experts expressed the same concern at the 8th Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Award Ceremony held recently and the 2018 China Artificial Intelligence Industry Annual Meeting.

 Why follow the trend?  Lu Ruqian, a researcher at the Institute of Mathematics and Systems Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who won the highest achievement award for artificial intelligence in Wu Wenjun, said bluntly that our researchers lacked confidence.

 Our country has done a good job in the application of artificial intelligence, but there is a big gap between basic research and foreign countries.  ' Wang Haifeng, senior vice president of Beijing Baidu Netnews Technology Co., Ltd., pointed out.  The winner of the Wu Wenjun Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Artificial Intelligence said regretfully that the basic theories and technologies of artificial intelligence we are currently using are in the hands of others.

 In 2017, the State Council issued the ' Development Plan for New Generation of Artificial Intelligence' and proposed that by 2030, China's artificial intelligence theory, technology and application will reach the world's leading level and become the world's major artificial intelligence innovation center.  Experts believe that in order to achieve this goal, China's artificial intelligence needs to do a good job in basic research, with less following the trend and more practical.