A.I. Future: Utopia or Apocalypse? Ten Visions For Our Future | Kai-Fu Lee

Hidden Forces

Demetri Kofinas

Business, Government

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 210 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Kai-Fu Lee, CEO of Sinovation Ventures, a leading Chinese technology venture firm. Dr. Lee was formerly the president of Google China and the New York Times bestselling author of AI Superpowers. His latest book, "AI2041: Ten Visions for Our Future," provides the foundation for today's conversation about the future of a world driven by artificial intelligence, what it will look like, and the challenges and opportunities for humanity that such a world will create.

In the first part of today's episode, Kai-Fu and Demetri discuss a number of key technologies that Dr. Lee believes will play a pivotal role in transforming our lives over the next 20 years such as artificial intelligence and quantum computing, how these technologies work, and their application in fields such as autonomous driving and predictive analytics. Most of the first half, however, is spent on the subject of "deep learning," which is a subset of machine learning, which itself is fundamental to many of the transformative technologies that the two speak about in this episode.

In the Overtime, which is available to our premium subscribers, our conversation turns to the subjects of deep fakes and autonomous weapons, job displacement, as well as digital currency and how to think about money in the type of post-scarcity world that Kai-Fu believes we are progressively moving towards as the technologies we discuss today are increasingly integrated into our applications, devices, and systems.

This is a fascinating discussion that fits right in with the type of content that you have come to expect from this podcast. If you enjoy the first half of today's conversation, we encourage you to take the leap and become a premium subscriber. There is no commitment; you can cancel at any time, and the entire library of premium content going all the way back to episode 1 becomes instantly available to you, including the overtimes, transcripts, and rundowns depending on your tier.

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Episode Recorded on 09/13/2021

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0:00.0	What's up, everybody? My name is Demetric Afinas and you're listening to Hidden Forces,
0:06.0	a podcast that inspires investors, entrepreneurs, and everyday citizens to challenge consensus
0:12.5	narratives and to learn how to think critically, but the systems of power shaping our world.
0:18.4	My guest in this week's episode is Kai Fu Li. Dr. Li currently serves as CEO of Innovation
0:24.9	Ventures, a leading Chinese technology venture firm, and was formerly the president of
0:29.8	Google China and a senior executive at Microsoft, SGI, and Apple. He's the New York Times best-selling
0:36.8	author of AI Superpowers and is out with a new book titled AI2041, Ten Visions for Our Future,
0:45.0	which provides the foundation for today's conversation about the future of our world, what it's going
0:49.9	to look like, and the challenges and opportunities that such a world will create. In the first part
0:55.9	of today's episode, Kai and I discuss a number of key technologies that he believes will play a
1:01.4	pivotal role in transforming our lives over the next 20 years, such as artificial intelligence
1:07.3	and quantum computing, how these technologies work, and their application in fields such as autonomous
1:13.0	driving and predictive analytics. Most of the first half, however, is spent on the subject of deep
1:19.0	learning, which is a subset of machine learning, which itself is fundamental to many of the transformative
1:24.9	technologies that we speak about today. In the second half, which is available to our premium
1:30.0	subscribers, our conversation turns to the subjects of deep fakes and autonomous weapons,
1:35.4	job displacement, as well as digital currency, and how to think about money in the type of post-scarcity
1:41.1	world that Kai food believes we're progressively moving towards, as the technologies we discuss today
1:46.9	are increasingly integrated into our applications, devices, and systems. Again, a fascinating
1:53.5	discussion that fits right in with the type of content that you have come to expect from this
1:58.2	podcast. If you enjoy the first half of today's conversation, I encourage you to take the leap
2:04.2	and become a premium subscriber. If you aren't already, there's no commitment, you can cancel at
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