139: Kai-Fu Lee | AI Superpowers and the Future of Humanity

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Jordan Harbinger

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🗓️ 27 December 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Kai-Fu Lee (@kaifulee) is a venture capitalist, technology executive, and author of AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order.

What We Discuss with Kai-Fu Lee:

Why the advent of AI is as important as the Industrial Revolution.
The AI Superpowers that are competing to shape the nature of our future.
How soon we can expect artificial intelligence (AI) to drastically disrupt the jobs we take for granted today.
What can humans do to prepare for a future where their livelihoods might be taken over completely by AI?
Should we fear what we're losing in such a future, or embrace the opportunities we're gaining?
And much more...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. Of course, I'm here with my producer, Jason
0:04.3	DeFilippo. There's a lot of talk about artificial intelligence these days. From whether it'll
0:09.1	take all of our jobs and leave us all unemployed, or whether it will just murder all of us in
0:13.7	some particularly brutal fashion. Now, while watching experts and science fiction authors
0:18.2	debate this endlessly online, I came across this book by Kai Fu Lee, former president of
0:23.2	Google China, discussing the rise of AI in China and what this means for AI for the rest
0:28.7	of the world. We'll learn just how close or how far we are from the different types of
0:33.7	artificial intelligence and how AI will begin to change the world and our position in it.
0:38.6	We'll also discover why AI is as important as the industrial revolution was and yet it
0:44.0	will happen a lot faster. And of course, what this means for us is mere humans. Kai Fu
0:49.2	Lee is a venture capitalist technology executive, writer and an AI expert. And this was a really
0:54.6	fascinating conversation. And I hope you enjoyed as well. If you want to learn how I book
0:58.6	some of these amazing guests, well, I'm teaching you how I do outreach and manage my network
1:03.0	over at JordanHarbinger.com slash level one, that level one course is free. All right,
1:09.0	here's Kai Fu Lee. We have all these kindergarten questions about AI, things like will it replace
1:15.4	us? How quickly is this going to happen? Are we going to end up with robot overlords?
1:21.0	My phone already bosses me around. So how long until something actually is forcing me
1:26.2	to take action? And I think people aside from Elon Musk, people like yourself are more
1:32.1	excited and less scared when it comes to AI. How far away are we from generalized AI that
1:39.9	can do all kinds of what we as sci-fi readers expect AI to be able to do?
1:45.3	Well, I think the really important answer to the question is no one can possibly know.
1:51.0	Because there are still probably 10 to 20 breakthroughs needed to get there. And no one
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