The Era of Artificial Intelligence
with Dr. Kai-Fu Lee,Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures, President of Sinovation Ventures Artificial Intelligence Institute
Saturday, 15 September, 2018
Start time:
• 14:00 Doors open
• 14:30 Event begins
CHAO Art Center, 1F Plaza
How will A.I. affect us as individuals, as societies and as humanity? In his talk, Dr. Lee will discuss the four waves of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and how AI will permeate every part of our lives in the next decade. He will explain how this will be different from previous technology revolutions – it will be faster and driven not by one superpower, but by two: the US and China. AI will add $16 trillion to our global GDP, but also cause many challenges that will be hard to solve. Dr. Lee will talk in particular about AI replacing routine jobs — the consequences, the proposed solutions that don’t work (such as UBI), and end with a blueprint of co-existence between humans and AI.
ABOUT KAI-FU LEE
Dr. Kai-Fu Lee is the Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures, a US$1.7 billion venture capital firm investing in Chinese technology companies, also the President of Sinovation’s Artificial Intelligence Institute. Prior to founding Sinovation Ventures in 2009, Dr. Lee was the President of Google China and previously held executive positions at Microsoft, SGI, and Apple. He has a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence in 1988 from Carnegie Mellon University and honorary Ph.D.s from Carnegie Mellon University and City University of Hong Kong. Altogether Dr. Lee has been in AI research, development, and investment for more than 30 years. He is the author of seven top-selling books in Chinese, and has over fifty million followers on social media. His new book “AI Superpowers” coming out late September 2018 will explain how China and Silicon Valley will change the world order from a technologist perspective.
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