How AI can save our humanity | Kai-Fu Lee

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🗓️ 13 June 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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AI is massively transforming our world, but there's one thing it cannot do: love. In a visionary talk, computer scientist Kai-Fu Lee details how the US and China are driving a deep learning revolution -- and shares a blueprint for how humans can thrive in the age of AI by harnessing compassion and creativity. "AI is serendipity," Lee says. "It is here to liberate us from routine jobs, and it is here to remind us what it is that makes us human."

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Chris Anderson, and today we've got a talk by Kai Fu Lee from TED
0:05.9	2018. Kai Fu is one of the leading thinkers on artificial intelligence, AI. And in this talk,
0:13.6	he says that AI could actually liberate us to be more human, provided we change how we think
0:19.1	about work.
0:23.3	A few subjects, I think, are as urgent as this.
0:27.7	So after the talk, I invite you to listen to my podcast, The TED Interview,
0:34.4	where I sit down with Kai Fu to hear more about the inescapable arrival of this world-changing technology.
0:39.3	That's the TED interview on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. I'm going to talk about how AI and mankind can coexist, but first we have to rethink
0:46.8	about our human values. So let me first make a confession about my errors in my values.
0:53.7	It was 11 o'clock, December 16th, 1991. I was about to
0:58.8	become a father for the first time. My wife, Shenling, lay in the hospital bed, going through a very
1:05.3	difficult 12-hour labor. I sat by her bedside, but looked anxiously at my watch, and I knew something that she didn't.
1:15.1	I knew that if in one hour our child didn't come, I was going to leave her there and go back
1:22.8	to work and make a presentation about AI to my boss, Apple CEO.
1:30.8	Fortunately, my daughter was born at 1130,
1:39.1	sparing me from doing the unthinkable,
1:43.2	and to this date, I am so sorry for letting my work ethic
1:47.2	take precedence over love for my family.
1:55.7	My AI talk, however, went off brilliantly.
2:01.6	Apple loved my work and decided to announce it at TED192,
2:07.6	26 years ago, on this very stage.
2:10.6	I thought I had made one of the biggest, most important discoveries in AI,
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