President's Distinguished Lectures Series—Dr. Kai-Fu Lee

The Era of Artificial Intelligence by Dr. Kai-Fu Lee
Sunday, October 21, 2018 at 3:30 p.m.
Auditorium (bldg. 20)

Dr. 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 discuss how this will be different from previous technology revolutions in that it will be faster and driven by not one superpower, but two—China and the U.S. AI will add $16 trillion to global GDP, but will also create many challenges that will be hard to solve. He will also 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 human-AI coexistence.

About the speaker

It’s not hyperbole to say that Dr. Kai-Fu Lee is at the forefront of the coming AI revolution, and a legend on both sides of the Pacific.

Lee has led Apple, Microsoft and Google. He has more than 50 million followers on Sina Weibo. He founded Microsoft Research China, which was named the hottest research lab by MIT Technology Review, and through which he has trained many of today’s AI leaders at Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba, Lenovo, Huawei and Haier.

Lee is well known for education projects, including Sinovation’s AI Institute, the firm’s Beijing-based lab of AI research and talent development. He received a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Columbia and a doctorate from Carnegie Mellon. He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and has been awarded honorary doctorates from both Carnegie Mellon and the City University of Hong Kong. Lee holds 10 U.S. patents, and has authored over 100 journal and conference papers.

World-renowned thinkers sing praises for his latest book “AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order,” click here for more information. Acclaim for his book includes the Chairman and CEO of Blackberry John Chen; Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella; former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz; HuffPost Founder Arianna Huffington; and many more.

With worldwide interest in AI, and the perceived rivalry between China and the U.S. in this technological domain, Lee’s lecture presents a unique opportunity to learn more about this topic from a premier expert.

Don’t miss his talk via livestream: “The Era of Artificial Intelligence,” Sunday, October 21 at 3:30 p.m. in the Campus Auditorium (bldg. 20). Lee will deliver the first President’s Distinguished Lecture of Tony Chan’s presidency, followed by a reception.

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