Cutting Through the Fog of AI


Lucid, candid, thoughtful and thought-provoking, prudent and pragmatic, Kai-fu Lee is at his brilliant best in this eye-opening interview with Singularity University’s equally brilliant Peter Diamandis

rather than wallow in what’s worst.” —Kai-fu Lee (MIT 2018)

NOTE: Edited segments taken from 90-minute video interview from Abundance Digital. See full-length version.

Video #1 Kai-fu Lee (7:52)

Why I wrote the book

The emergence and consequences of AI

What are the biggest issues brought about by AI

How did China get to now? AI acceleration in China

Video #2 Kai-fu Lee (13:16)

The Four Waves of AI: From the Internet to Autonomous AI

Video #3 Kai-fu Lee (2:09)

Ray Kurzweil predicts human-level AI by 2029. However, you disagree. Why is that?

Kai-fu Lee completed his PhD in artificial intelligence (speech recognition) at Carnegie-Mellon University in 1988, worked at Apple, SGI, Microsoft and Google (president of Google China) and, in 2009, established Beijing-based Sinovation Ventures (CEO), an early stage venture capital firm.

Sinovation has 11 unicorns (4 of which are AI companies, including, Face++)

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AI Arrives in Asia: Let the Games Begin!
“Asia’s business landscape is poised not only to benefit greatly from AI’s rise, but to also define it,” reports MIT’s Technology Review

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Why Is AI Important for Asian Automation?
Can Asia’s Industrial Internet of Things and its robot-driven Factories of the Future succeed without Artificial Intelligence (AI)?

AI Arrives in Asia: Who’s Doing What…or Not Enough?
Deep learning in Korea, Japan and China. Differing agendas and directions; same goal: Manufacturing


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