by Kai-Fu Lee
Zhou and, 41–42
TensorFlow, 95, 228
Terminator (film series), 141
Tesla, 131–32
tests and grading, 123
3Q War, 41–42
Thrun, Sebastian, 88, 113–14
Tmall, 36
Toutiao (news platform), 40, 108–9, 163
traffic management, 84, 94, 103, 124, 134
transfer learning, 12
Traptic, 129
truck drivers, 101, 102
Trump, Donald, 98, 104
Tsinghua University, 89
Tujia, 73
tutoring, customized, 123–24
Twitter, 23, 24, 31, 33, 40
U
Uber
bicycle sharing compared to, 78, 79
Chinese entrepreneurs compared to, 24–25
Chinese market and, 39
Didi and, 40, 68–69, 70, 72, 79, 137
four waves of AI and, 106
global markets and, 137
O2O revolution and, 68–69
self-driving cars and, 19, 131
services using model of, 213–14
WeChat and, 70
UBI. See universal basic income (UBI)
unemployment, mass, 5, 19–21, 144, 145–48, 154–55, 173, 199–200
United Kingdom, 11, 20, 169
United States
birth of AI and, 11, 13–14
China’s competition with. See China and U.S., competition between
digital world dominance of, 2, 11–12, 18
economic stratification in, 150
education experiments in, 229
Fermi’s move to, 85
global economic inequality and, 168–70
government’s hands-off approach, 18, 229
great decoupling and, 150, 202
inequality within, 170–72, 199–200
inheritance of technological skillsets in, 33
jobs at risk of automation in, 157–60, 164
mobile payments in, compared to China, 75–77
privacy protection in, 125
self-driving cars in, 133
spending on research vs. Google, 92–93
traffic accidents in, 101
universal basic income and, 207
universal basic income (UBI), 201, 206–10, 218, 220, 222, 225
University of Modena, 191–92
University of Science and Technology of China, 81–82
“useless class,” 172, 230
utopians vs. dystopians, 140–44
V
value alignment problem, 142
venture capital (VC) industry
AI world order and, 20
American, 70
Chinese, 3–4, 11, 40, 47–48, 51–54, 58, 64–65, 88, 97–99
competition between companies and, 15
creation of, and AI revolution, 153–55
Lee and, ix, xi, 3, 52
new venture ecosystem, 216–17
VIPKid, 123–24
volunteerism, 218–20, 221, 229
W
Wadhwa, Vivek, 165
wage suppression, 165
Wall Street, 35
Walsh, Frank, 173
Wang Xing
as the Cloner, 22–24, 25–26
Facebook and Twitter copied by, 22, 23, 24, 31, 32–33, 42
Meituan, founding of, 45–49
Meituan Dianping, 49, 69, 70, 78
Ware, Bronnie, 186–87, 195
War of a Thousand Groupons, 45–49
Waymo, 92, 131, 135
weak features vs. strong features, 110–11, 113, 191
wealth and class inequality, 19–20, 144, 145–47, 150–51, 154, 170–72, 199–200. See also global economic inequality
WeChat
AI community and, 88
Chinese students and, 83
development of, 58–59
as digital Swiss Army knife, 17, 54
mobile payments and, 60–61, 74, 75, 112
super-app model and, 70–71
Tencent and, 58–59, 60–61, 93
WeChat Wallet, 60, 69, 70, 74, 76, 77, 121
Weibo (micro-blogging platform), 40, 181, 189
Weixin, 58. See also WeChat
WhatsApp, 59
white-collar workers, 146, 153, 166, 167, 168
Whitman, Meg, 36–37
work-sharing arrangements, 205–6
World Economic Forum (2018), 215
World Health Organization, 101
X
Xiaomi (hardware startup), 127
Xiaonei (Facebook clone), 22–23, 42, 46, 47
Xiong’an New Area, China, 133–34
Y
Yahoo!, 31, 41
Yang, Jerry, 31
Y Combinator, 208
Yelp, 71–72, 77
YouTube, 107
Z
Zhang, Charles, 30–31
Zhongguancun Bank, 68
Zhongguancun neighborhood/technology zone, 3, 51–52, 53, 61–62
Zhou Hongyi, 40–42
Zhu Yuanzhang, 48
Zuckerberg, Mark, 22, 28, 33, 208
About the Author
Dr. Kai-Fu Lee is the chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures and the president of Sinovation Ventures’ Artificial Intelligence Institute. Sinovation, which manages $1.7 billion in dual-currency investment funds, is a leading venture capital firm focused on developing the next generation of Chinese high-tech companies.
Before founding Sinovation in 2009, Lee was the president of Google China. He previously held executive positions at Microsoft, SGI, and Apple. Lee received his bachelor’s degree in computer science at Columbia University and his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University. He holds honorary doctoral degrees from Carnegie Mellon and the City University of Hong Kong and is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Lee is the author of seven best-selling books in China.
In the field of artificial intelligence, Lee founded Microsoft Research China, which was named the “hottest computer 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 at Apple, Lee led AI projects in speech and natural language, which have been featured on Good Morning America and the front page of the Wall Street Journal. He is the author of ten U.S. patents and more than one hundred journal and conference papers. Altogether, Lee has been in artificial intelligence research, development, and investment for more than thirty years.
For more information on Kai-Fu Lee,
visit www.aisuperpowers.com
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