Artificial Intelligence and Rethinking the Principles of Society - with De Kai

In this interview De Kai talks about Artificial Intelligence from his cross-disciplinary perspective. We talk about the meaning of creativity, consciousness and mindfullness for modern AI, various misconceptions about modern AI and whether it is still programmable in the classical sense at all, about AI ethics and what AI means for us as a society, humanity and our future.

About De Kai

De Kai is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at HKUST and Distinguished Research Scholar at Berkeley's International Computer Science Institute. He is among only 17 scientists named Founding Fellow by the Association for Computational Linguistics, for his pioneering contributions to machine learning foundations of machine translation that led to the Google/Microsoft/Yahoo/etc translators. De Kai was recruited as founding faculty of the University of Science and Technology in Hong Kong directly from UC Berkeley, where his PhD thesis was one of the first to argue for the paradigm shift toward machine learning based natural language processing. He holds a Kellogg-HKUST Executive MBA and a BS in Computer Engineering (Phi Beta Kappa, cum laude, Revelle College honors) from UCSD.

For his work on AI, machine learning, machine translation, natural language processing, music technology, computational creativity, Debrett's HK 100 recognized De Kai as one of the 100 most influential figures of Hong Kong.

For his work on AI ethics and society, De Kai was one of eight inaugural members selected by Google in 2019 for its AI ethics council.

See http://dek.ai for details.

De Kai’s Links

Website: http://dek.ai

Universal Masking Project: http://dek.ai/masks4all

Twitter: @dekai123

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dekai1

YouTube, 26 Apr 22, Visual simulations show why we all need to wear masks now https://youtu.be/yfeW2l8G_W4
South China Morning Post, 25 May 2020, Coronavirus spread would dramatically drop if 80% of a population wore masks, AI researcher says https://www.scmp.com/video/coronavirus/3085971/coronavirus-spread-would-dramatically-drop-if-80-population-wore-masks-ai
Boma COVID-19 Summit, 23 Mar 2020, The disastrous consequences of information disorder erupting around COVID-19: AI is preying upon our unconscious cognitive biases https://youtu.be/ZidC7oRd7Pc
TEDxChiangMai, Thailand, 7 Sep 2019, The Paradox of AI Ethics: Why Rule-based AI Ethics Will Fail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKPhvb_9taw
TEDxOakland, California, 18 Nov 2018, Why AI is impossible without mindfulness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_Sd2ZPPhv8
TEDxKlagenfurt, Austria, 16 Jun 2018, Artificial Gossips https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHyjSgCoNlw
TEDxBlackRockCity, Nevada, 29 Aug 2017, Artificial Children (no video due to technical difficulties)
TEDxZhujiangNewTown, Guangzhou, 14 Jan 2017 Why Meaningful AI is Musical https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzA4MDQwODE4MA==.html or https://v.qq.com/x/page/i05088lu78h.html
TEDxBlackRockCity, Nevada, 31 Aug 2016 (no video due to technical difficulties)
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