Dr Kai-Fu Lee, Sinovation Ventures
HOW TO: take advantage of the potential of AI
“For those of you who are in you school, you are in the perfect timing to enter a world where a general omni-purpose use technology is about to change the world - treasure that opportunity”
This week on CUTalks, we are speaking to Dr. Kai-fu Lee who is the Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures, a leading Chinese technology venture capital firm. He was also the founder of Microsoft Research Asia and the president of Google China as well as authoring the bestseller ‘AI Superpowers’. Kai-fu shared his journey into AI and gave an overview of the entrepreneurial landscape in China. He then went on to give insights into how governments can support AI, how humans can adapt as AI adopts certain tasks and how AI can revolutionise education.
This podcast was produced by Carl Homer, Cambridge TV.
Jump to the following topics:
Journey into AI - 1:02
Entrepreneurship in China vs the US - 4:50
What Sinovation looks for in a company - 10:47
AI research overview - 14:47
How governments should approach AI policy - 22:20
Advantages of open source research - 26:37
GPT-3 and transfer learning - 29:58
Impact of success on transparency - 32:28
Co-existing with AI - 34:52
Implementing AI in education - 42:57
Breaking into the online education sector - 49:22
Potential of AI - 53:38