Autumn Issue, 2017

“ Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the singular thing that will be larger than all of human tech revolutions. AI has reached the level in many years I dreamed of, and even surpassed human beings. It is not a copy of the human brain, but a new generation engine based on big data and logic. We humans exist for our self-awareness and with all our desires. The computer algorithms, the AIs that we use today have absolutely no desire to preserve their lives. They don’t have any self- awareness. There’s absolutely no emotion. When AlphaGo beat Ke Jie, it felt no joy. It doesn’t want to hug in. Ke Jie was crying. We all sympathise with him, but AlphaGo is not gloating or laughing or smiling to happy, and it doesn’t want to hug anybody. And then when Google shut it down, it’s gone, right? So AI is just a tool for human use for the foreseeable future. AI might create so much economic value that we are able to eradicate poverty. Secondly, it will free us from repetitive work that we currently do and let machines take care of that. Lastly, it might get us really think: Why do we exist on this Earth? I think it is to create and to love. It’s not figuring out how our brains work, but how our hearts work . ” Global Thinkers- The Future of Artificial Intelligence Dr Kai-Fu Lee 李開復 Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures and former President of Google China Full speech: http://www.asiaglobalinstitute.hku.hk 42