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AI Superpowers

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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,

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