Kai-Fu Lee’s TED Talk “How AI Can Save Our Humanity” outlines how AI’s core purpose is to help us harness the things that make us inherently human, our ability to empathise, considering that AI will never be capable of empathy. Former VP of Engineering of Google China, with over 50 million followers on Sina Weibo, he was named Asian Business Leader by Asia House in 2018. Kai-Fu is now available to book as a speaker and is guaranteed to provide a holistic overview of artificial intelligence.
Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures, Kai-Fu manages several technology companies in AI in China, helping young entrepreneurs in building world-class companies. For most of his career, he has worked in China, including being the Corporate Vice President of Microsoft. As a respected personality in the field of AI, he has trained and advised several AI leaders from organisations like Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba, Lenovo, Huawei, and Haier. Kai-Fu has also been the Chairman of the World Economic Forum’s Global AI Council. Amid all the polarised takes on AI, Kai-Fu maintains that how and what AI is used for, is solely dependent on its user’s intentions. He believes AI has transformational powers, provided it is used by the right people.
Kai-Fu completed his education in the USA, obtaining his BS in Computer Science from Columbia University, alongside classmate Barack Obama, and his PhD in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. After he worked as a Research Computer Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, he joined as Principal Scientist at Apple, working his way up to Vice President at Apple. He then worked as the Vice President at SGI. A career like this has warranted his place on the Time 100 List in 2013.
A marvellous author too, he has written the New York Times Bestselling “AI Superpowers”, “My Journey into AI” and “AI 2041”. Famed for developing the first speaker-independent, continuous speech recognition system, Kai-Fu is a Fellow of the IEEE. He is now available to speak at a wide range of events on artificial intelligence, its pros as well as its cons, and how it will be applied in the future. Go ahead and book AI thought leader, Kai-Fu Lee today!
