The Era of Artificial Intelligence--CANCELED
Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
In this talk, Dr. Kai-Fu Lee will talk about the four waves of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how AI will permeate every part of our lives in the next decade. He will also talk about how this will be different from previous technology revolutions — it will be faster and be driven by not one superpower, but two (US and China). AI will add $16 trillion to our global GDP, but also cause many challenges that will be hard to solve. He 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.
Dr. Kai-Fu Lee is the Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures (www.sinovationventures.com/)
In the field of artificial intelligence, Dr. Lee built one of the first game playing programs to defeat a world champion (1988, Othello), as well as the world’s first large-vocabulary, speaker-independent continuous speech recognition system. Dr. Lee founded Microsoft Research China, which was named as the hottest research lab by MIT Technology Review. Later renamed Microsoft Research Asia, this institute trained the great majority of AI leaders in China, including CTOs or AI heads at Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba, Lenovo, Huawei, and Haier. While with Apple, Dr. Lee led AI projects in speech and natural language, which have been featured on Good Morning America on ABC Television and the front page of Wall Street Journal. He has authored 10 U.S. patents, and more than 100 journal and conference papers. Altogether, Dr. Lee has been in artificial intelligence research, development, and investment for more than 30 years.