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In this episode, Kai-Fu and Peter discuss 01.AI's growth, Chinese entrepreneurship, and how open-source AI can impact the world.   Recorded on Oct 19th, 2024 Views are my own thoughts; not Financial, Medical, or Legal Advice. Kai-Fu Lee is the Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures, a venture capital firm he founded in 2009 that manages over $2 billion in assets and focuses on fostering the next generation of Chinese high-tech companies. In 2023, Lee launched 01.AI, a startup that built AI applications tailored for China, including Wanzhi, a productivity assistant similar to Microsoft Office 365 Copilot. As a leading figure in artificial intelligence, Lee continues to shape the tech landscape in China, where he recently noted that Chinese AI models are only 6 to 9 months behind their U.S. counterparts. He has authored influential books such as AI Superpowers (2018) and AI 2041 (2021) and was named one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people in 2013. Earlier in his career, Lee held prominent positions in tech, including Vice President at Google, President of Google China (2005-2009), and Corporate Vice President at Microsoft (2000- 2005). He also founded and led Microsoft Research Asia from 1998 to 2000. Lee remains a highly respected thought leader in AI and continues to drive innovation in the field. Beago: https://www.beago.ai/  01.AI: https://www.01.ai/  Kai-Fu's X: https://x.com/kaifulee  Kai-Fu's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaifulee/  Pre-Order my Longevity Guidebook here: https://longevityguidebook.com/  ____________ I only endorse products and services I personally use. To see what they are, please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:  Get started with Fountain Life and become the CEO of your health: https://fountainlife.com/peter/ AI-powered precision diagnosis you NEED for a healthy gut: https://www.viome.com/peter  Get 15% off OneSkin with the code PETER at  https://www.oneskin.co/ #oneskinpod Get real-time feedback on how diet impacts your health with https://join.levelshealth.com/peter/ _____________ I send weekly emails with the latest insights and trends on today's and tomorrow's exponential technologies. Stay ahead of the curve, and sign up now:  Blog _____________ Connect With Peter: Twitter Instagram Youtube Moonshots

Kai-Fu Lee is the co-founder of Sinovation Ventures, a venture capital firm funding Chinese start-ups. Before this, he was the president of Google China, and founder of Microsoft Research Asia. He's also the inventor of a speaker-independent, continuous speech recognition system. In our conversation we discuss: [00:00] - Introductions[01:50] - Kai Fu's background[05:44] - What is the first AI[11:56] - AI's future[15:01] - China's strength in AI technology[20:09] - China's Super App[24:38] - 996 and 997[28:10] - Engineering background[30:30] - Opportunities from AI[38:30] - AI as a double-edged sword[44:03] - Contribution to society[46:08] - Four Quadrants[49:39] - Relevant skillsets[52:59] - Humans falling in love with technology[55:54] - Working smart vs working hard[58:09] - Taking risks[59:20] - Longevity Watch full episodes on: https://www.youtube.com/@seankim?sub_confirmation=1 Connect on IG: https://instagram.com/heyseankim

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Pirate Water Booty CallThe Age of Transitions and Uncle 3-8-2024 Bum Wine BobAOT #416Battle lines appear to have been drawn in the “Great Powers Competition”, but where are they exactly? What is the battlefront, and is it a whole new one for the 21st century? Is AI the all important technology that will allow any given nation to reign supremer over all others? This, and many other questions are asked in this podcast episode. Topics include: powers behind presidential candidates, Project 2025, Ron Paul presidential campaigns, Truth Movement ideas, Republican mainstream apparatus, fringe and mainstream intertwined, geopolitical tension, Great Powers Competition, technology is lynchpin to world conflict, technological battlefronts, development of artificial intelligence, economic decoupling, Taiwan, TSMC, semiconductors, graphics cards, AI imagery and art, software and social use of computers, The Internet, various internets, government hour, esoteric interpretation of tech, Pepe the Frog as Kek, trash, disgusting imagery, esoteric understanding needed to interpret memes, online languages, digital spaces, content, social media apps, making a living online, TikTok ban, national security, multiple propaganda streams from varied national sources, schizo online discourse, transhumanism, Game Theory, Google China, full truth always obscured, alchemy, civilization, cyber security, JADC2UTP #326Bum Wine Bob, who now could be referred to as our very own bottom shelf drink correspondent, returns to the show. This time he has brought along Pirate Water, Margarita flavored malt beverage. What will the rating be for this new drink? Topics include: the drinker, cheap drinks, international listeners, podcasting, socials, drink locators, Pirate Water, Four Loko, Roadhouse, contest for starter pack, prize very late in the mail, malt liquor taste, mixers, cocktails, alcohol slushes in PA, Steel Reserve, Super Bowl drinks, St Patrick's drinks, ratings, spiked MD 20/20, test markets, drink promosFRANZ MAIN HUB:https://theageoftransitions.com/PATREONhttps://www.patreon.com/aaronfranzUNCLEhttps://unclethepodcast.com/ORhttps://theageoftransitions.com/category/uncle-the-podcast/''FRANZ and UNCLE Merchhttps://theageoftransitions.com/category/support-the-podcasts/

Battle lines appear to have been drawn in the “Great Powers Competition”, but where are they exactly? What is the battlefront, and is it a whole new one for the 21st century? Is AI the all important technology that will allow any given nation to reign supremer over all others? This, and many other questions are asked in this podcast episode.  Topics include: powers behind presidential candidates, Project 2025, Ron Paul presidential campaigns, Truth Movement ideas, Republican mainstream apparatus, fringe and mainstream intertwined, geopolitical tension, Great Powers Competition, technology is lynchpin to world conflict, technological battlefronts, development of artificial intelligence, economic decoupling, Taiwan, TSMC, semiconductors, graphics cards, AI imagery and art, software and social use of computers, The Internet, various internets, government hour, esoteric interpretation of tech, Pepe the Frog as Kek, trash, disgusting imagery, esoteric understanding needed to interpret memes, online languages, digital spaces, content, social media apps, making a living online, TikTok ban, national security, multiple propaganda streams from varied national sources, schizo online discourse, transhumanism, Game Theory, Google China, full truth always obscured, alchemy, civilization, cyber security, JADC2

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Over the next few months, the DOJ and a collection of state attorneys general will make their case to a D.C. District Court judge for why Google has allegedly violated anti-monopoly law through exclusive agreements with mobile phone manufacturers and browser makers to make its search engine the default for consumers. Tim Wu, Columbia University Law School professor and former Biden administration antitrust advisor, discusses the ongoing Google antitrust trial and why he believes the trial will re-write our future. Admiral James Stavridis, former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, discusses the current state of China-Taiwan tensions and the risk of a potential conflict in the region. Plus,the Republican stalemate over government funding continues and roughly 12,700 UAW workers are currently on strike, but the movement is spreading to more plants. Additional links: Check out Harry Wilson, former senior member of President Obama's auto industry tax force, offering lessons from previous auto strikes, recently on Squawk Box. Tim Wu: 12:50James Stavridis: 22:04In this episode:Joe Kernen, @JoeSquawkBecky Quick, @BeckyQuickKatie Kramer, @Kramer_Katie

Chen Qiufan (AKA Stanley Chan) is an award-winning science fiction writer, screenwriter, creative producer, and columnist. He is the president of the World Chinese Science Fiction Association and the founder of the content development studio Thema Mundi.     Chen joins the show to discuss his latest novel, AI 2041: Ten Visions for the Future, which he co-wrote with former Google China president Kai-Fu Lee.     Part science fiction, part science forecasting, over ten short stories AI 2041 imagines the different ways, good and bad, that AI will impact our society. The central thesis? AI will transform our lives, but we remain masters of our fate.     Important Links: Qiufan's Website Qiufan's Twitter Show Notes: Qiufan's sci-fi influences When did the third wave of AI begin? Why is modern sci-fi so dystopian? How AI is going to impact education Hidden biases & the objective function Deep fakes & narrative collapse Accelerationism, balance & Daoism Do we need real jobs? Happiness is a byproduct Living in a post-scarcity society What's next? MORE! Books Mentioned: AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future; by Kai-Fu Lee & Chen Qiufan Bullshit Jobs: A Theory; by David Graeber Tao Te Ching; by Lao Tzu Trekonomics: The Economics of Star Trek; by Manu Saadia Waste Tide; by Chen Qiufan

Our 116th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check out our text newsletter at https://lastweekin.ai/ Stories this week: Applications & BusinessOpenAI is massively expanding ChatGPT's capabilities to let it browse the web and more NVIDIA's big AI moment is here Lighting RoundFormer head of Google China joins ChatGPT frenzy by starting own venture Cerebras Systems Releases Seven New GPT Models Trained on CS-2 Wafer-Scale Systems Generative AI set to affect 300 million jobs across major economies Agility's Latest Digit Robot Prepares for its First Job Research & AdvancementsLearning to grow machine-learning models Researchers from UC Berkeley and Deepmind Propose SuccessVQA: A Reformulation of Success Detection that is Amenable to Pre-trained VLMs such as Flamingo Lighting RoundNew virtual testing environment breaks the 'curse of rarity' for autonomous vehicle emergency decision-making  Scientists are using machine learning to forecast bird migration and identify birds in flight by their calls  New in-home AI tool monitors the health of elderly residents Runway Gen-2 is the First Publicly Available Text-to-Video Generator Policy & Societal Impacts OpenAI co-founder on company's past approach to openly sharing research: ‘We were wrong' 1,100+ notable signatories just signed an open letter asking “all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months” Lighting RoundIn San Francisco, some people wonder when A.I. will kill us all Clearview AI used nearly 1m times by US police, it tells the BBC Voice system used to verify identity by Centrelink can be fooled by AI AI can draw hands now. That's bad news for deep-fakes Art & Fun Stuff People Aren't Falling for AI Trump Photos (Yet) WGA Would Allow Artificial Intelligence in Scriptwriting, as Long as Writers Maintain Credit

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Dans le livre IA 2042 (Les Arènes, 2022), l'auteur de SF Chen Qiufan image dix nouvelles de fiction dans une Chine du futur. On peut y trouver en prime le décryptage de Kai-Fu Lee, ancien PDG de Google China. Les deux hommes y dressent un panorama exhaustif de tout ce que l'intelligence artificielle pourrait révolutionner dans nos vies… en édulcorant franchement ses risques. À la clé, beaucoup de prédictions hasardeuses et une bonne dose de techno-solutionnisme…Une chronique de Pablo Maillé du magazine Usbek et Rica. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Senator Marsha Blackburn joins the show to talk about google censorship, Pelosi's trip to Taiwan, and Title IX for transgenders. • mypillow.com PROMO CODE: ABS • betterhelp.com/abernathy • gacraftpirits.com PROMO CODE: ABS • https://share.2ashield.com/a/2A/ABS

Senator Marsha Blackburn joins the show to talk about google censorship, Pelosi's trip to Taiwan, and Title IX for transgenders. • mypillow.com PROMO CODE: ABS • betterhelp.com/abernathy • gacraftpirits.com PROMO CODE: ABS • share.2ashield.com/a/2A/ABS

In 2017, leading AI expert Kai-Fu Lee shared a dire prediction: half of all jobs – both blue collar and white collar – could be automated within ten years, replacing the workforce with solutions built on artificial intelligence. Brad and Kai-Fu discuss what this coming change means for national economies and for people who care about their work. Kai-Fu lays out practical steps policy makers can take today to prepare, the three areas he believes human intelligence will continue to lead, and why he remains an AI optimist.Dr. Kai-Fu Lee has driven innovation in AI research and development for over three decades. He is the Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures and President of Sinovation Venture's Artificial Intelligence Institute. Prior to founding Sinovation in 2009, Dr. Lee was the President of Google China, and a senior executive at Microsoft, SGI, and Apple. In the field of AI, Dr. Lee built one of the first game playing programs to defeat a world champion, as well as the world's first large-vocabulary, speaker-independent continuous speech recognition system. His bestselling book AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order discusses US-China co-leadership in the age of AI, as well as the greater societal impacts wrought by the AI technology revolution. His new co-authored book AI 2041 explores how AI will change our world over the next 20 years.Click here for the episode transcript.

There is no shortage of passion in the culture and information wars that rage 24/7 online. What is lacking is any sort of self reflection as to how we all fall prey to misinformation and disinformation. It is likely too late to turn the tide, but it is still useful to see what is happening, and where things are going.  Topics include: passing of Joshua Brookshire, first autonomous big rig on US road, logistics, supply chain, automation, EVs, GE, Einride, Ford plans to solely produce fleet vehicles, individual vehicle ownership now phasing out, rideshare apps, public transportation, TikTok labeled national security threat by FCC, user data, China and US tech rivalry, surveillance, intelligence gathering, consumer drones banned, social media apps sell data, stuck in the digital world, Russia, cyber warfare, Google China, scientific advances of Cold War were always publicly available, open source intelligence, culture wars, social media used to spread misinformation by many different groups, divide and conquer techniques, alternative media personalities swayed by social media misinformation, feeding information to influencers and alt media, power of suggestion, no one is immune, MindWar, self promotion, fringe ideas entering mainstream, internet freedom at risk due to fools spreading disinformation, constant manipulation, Google likely demoting The Age of Transitions website

Screw Google Video GamingThe Age of Transitions and Uncle 7-1-2022 No GuestAOT #357There is no shortage of passion in the culture and information wars that rage 24/7 online. What is lacking is any sort of self-reflection as to how we all fall prey to misinformation and disinformation. It is likely too late to turn the tide, but it is still useful to see what is happening, and where things are going. Topics include: passing of Joshua Brookshire, first autonomous big rig on US road, logistics, supply chain, automation, EVs, GE, Einride, Ford plans to solely produce fleet vehicles, individual vehicle ownership now phasing out, rideshare apps, public transportation, TikTok labeled national security threat by FCC, user data, China and US tech rivalry, surveillance, intelligence gathering, consumer drones banned, social media apps sell data, stuck in the digital world, Russia, cyber warfare, Google China, scientific advances of Cold War were always publicly available, open-source intelligence, culture wars, social media used to spread misinformation by many different groups, divide and conquer techniques, alternative media personalities swayed by social media misinformation, feeding information to influencers and alt-media, power of suggestion, no one is immune, MindWar, self promotion, fringe ideas entering mainstream, internet freedom at risk due to fools spreading disinformation, constant manipulation, Google likely demoting The Age of Transitions websiteUTP #267Uncle had a fine week of nostalgia for this podcast episode. Video games, movies, TV, and more. Topics include: flight problems, LAX Livestream video, new broadcast room, holiday weekend, Stranger Things, surprise ending, street team, internet connectivity issues, Rockfin, video game streams, listener engagement, goth tractor girl, Twitch, Army Men games, Cool Spot games, Cabazon Dinosaurs, going inside Mr. Rex, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Pasadena movie house, CHUD, Spaceballs, Huey Lewis Ghostbuster's themeOCHELLI LINKS:If You Appreciate what Ochelli.com Radio Does: https://ochelli.com/donate/Chuck's PayPal: blindjfkresearcher@gmail.comOchelli Effect - Uncle - Age of Transitions - T-shirts and MORE: https://theageoftransitions.com/category/support-the-podcasts/Special New Audiobook SeriesPayPal & Contact for special arrangements: blindjfkresearcher@gmail.comOchelli Effect Patreon https://www.patreon.com/ochelliSign-up on Ochelli.comhttps://ochelli.com/membership-account/membership-levels/

Today's guest Elisa Covington fell in love with house flipping when she bought her first home. Now transforming houses as a living, she'll share her secrets to her success. Eavesdrop on this conversation and learn how to look for excellent house flipping deals, ensure a smooth renovation project, and more tips and strategies for home remodeling and selling!Key Takeaways To Listen ForTips for finding a good tenantReason to hold a “reserve fund” when flipping and how to make sure that property is profitableThings you should pay attention to when remodeling propertiesSecrets to finding great deals for flippingBest advice for people who are new to fixing and flippingDifferent course of action to finance your dealsResources Mentioned In This EpisodeFree Apartment Syndication Due Diligence Checklist for Passive Investor About Elisa CovingtonElisa Covington is a real estate investor in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the Founder and CEO of Transform Real Estate Investments, LLC, a Bay Area local Real Estate Solutions Company that purchases and improves all types of homes in various conditions and locations. In 2017, Elisa transitioned out of a comfortable, good-paying 9-5 job to a full-time investor. With 40 completed projects, she became her own boss and managed to work fewer hours but make many times more than her old W2 income. She's been making a 7-figure profit every year since 2019. Elisa started her investing journey by purchasing, remodeling, house hacking, and owning furnished rentals in San Francisco. She has done a DIY remodel with her husband and also managed rental properties on her own.   Elisa enjoys helping people and sharing her knowledge with others. She currently mentors a few aspiring investors and hopes to empower more women to get started in real estate. She started a Youtube Channel (Youtube.com/TransformRealEstate) to teach people to invest in real estate and achieve financial freedom and now has over 50K subscribers. Elisa was born and raised in Beijing, China. After working for Google China briefly, she came to the US to pursue her MBA at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Elisa loves to design her own flips and use unique design features to appeal to buyers. When she isn't prospecting new properties or supervising projects, she loves hiking, swimming, and traveling. She has been to over 20 countries on 6 continents.  You can follow her on Instagram @transformrealestate where she shares remodeling tips & tricks and before & after photos and subscribe to her Youtube channel (Youtube.com/TransformRealEstate) to learn about real estate investing and home remodeling.  Connect with ElisaWebsite: Transform Real EstateYouTube: Transform Real EstateInstagram: @transformrealestateFacebook: Transform Real EstateTo Connect With UsPlease visit our website: www.bonavestcapital.com and please click here, to leave a rating and review!SponsorsGrow Your Show, LLCThinking About Creating and Growing Your Own Podcast But Not Sure Where To Start?Visit GrowYourShow.com and Schedule a call with Adam A. Adams.

One of AI's greatest champions has turned to fiction to answer the question: how will technology shape our world in the next 20 years? Kai-Fu Lee, CEO of Sinovation Ventures and a former president of Google China, spoke with NVIDIA AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz about AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future. The book, his fourth available in the U.S. and first work of fiction, was in collaboration with Chinese sci-fi writer Chen Qiufan, also known as Stanley Chan. Lee and Chan blend their expertise in scientific forecasting and speculative fiction in this collection of short stories, which was published in September. Among Lee's books is the New York Times bestseller AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order, which he spoke about on a 2018 episode of the AI Podcast. https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/12/15/kai-fu-lee-ai-2041/

Within the next two decades, Kai-Fu Lee says, artificial intelligence will become the defining development of the 21st century, making aspects of daily human life today virtually unrecognizable. AI will revolutionize medicine and education through human-machine symbioses. It will challenge the social and economic order by creating brand-new forms of communication and generating unprecedented wealth. AI is at its tipping point, and if our society doesn't prepare for both the exciting and possibly perilous pathways ahead, we will lose the ability to control our collective future. In their new book AI 2041, Kai-Fu Lee, bestselling author and former president of Google China, teams up with Chen Qiufan to create an image of what a world with artificial intelligence will look like in 20 years. In 10 gripping short stories, the authors introduce readers to an array of eye-opening concepts, such as the rogue scientist in Munich who uses AI technologies in a revenge plot that endangers the world. Or the teenage girl in Mumbai who rebels when AI's crunching of big data gets in the way of romance. Through these stories, Lee and Qiufan draw on the ominous possibilities of autonomous weapons and human bias in smart technology as well as the incredible liberating power of artificial intelligence and its unprecedented ability to strengthen societal connections. Kai-Fu Lee is the CEO of Beijing-based Sinovation Ventures and the co-chair of the Artificial Intelligence Council at the World Economic Forum. Formerly the president of Google China, Lee was also a senior executive at Microsoft, SGI and Apple. Join us as Kai-Fu Lee delves into the intriguing future of artificial intelligence. SPEAKERS Kai-Fu Lee Ph.D., CEO, Sinovation Ventures; Co-author, AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future In Conversation with Rumman Chowdhury Ph.D., CEO and Founder, Parity AI n response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are currently hosting all of our live programming via YouTube live stream. This program was recorded via video conference on September 28th, 2021 by the Commonwealth Club of California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Within the next two decades, Kai-Fu Lee says, artificial intelligence will become the defining development of the 21st century, making aspects of daily human life today virtually unrecognizable. AI will revolutionize medicine and education through human-machine symbioses. It will challenge the social and economic order by creating brand-new forms of communication and generating unprecedented wealth. AI is at its tipping point, and if our society doesn't prepare for both the exciting and possibly perilous pathways ahead, we will lose the ability to control our collective future. In their new book AI 2041, Kai-Fu Lee, bestselling author and former president of Google China, teams up with Chen Qiufan to create an image of what a world with artificial intelligence will look like in 20 years. In 10 gripping short stories, the authors introduce readers to an array of eye-opening concepts, such as the rogue scientist in Munich who uses AI technologies in a revenge plot that endangers the world. Or the teenage girl in Mumbai who rebels when AI's crunching of big data gets in the way of romance. Through these stories, Lee and Qiufan draw on the ominous possibilities of autonomous weapons and human bias in smart technology as well as the incredible liberating power of artificial intelligence and its unprecedented ability to strengthen societal connections. Kai-Fu Lee is the CEO of Beijing-based Sinovation Ventures and the co-chair of the Artificial Intelligence Council at the World Economic Forum. Formerly the president of Google China, Lee was also a senior executive at Microsoft, SGI and Apple. Join us as Kai-Fu Lee delves into the intriguing future of artificial intelligence. SPEAKERS Kai-Fu Lee Ph.D., CEO, Sinovation Ventures; Co-author, AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future In Conversation with Rumman Chowdhury Ph.D., CEO and Founder, Parity AI n response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are currently hosting all of our live programming via YouTube live stream. This program was recorded via video conference on September 28th, 2021 by the Commonwealth Club of California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kai-Fu Lee is the co-founder of Sinovation Ventures, a venture capital firm funding Chinese start-ups. Before this, he was the president of Google China, and founder of Microsoft Resaerch Asia. He's also the inventor of a speaker-independent, continuous speech recognition system. Watch his TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/kai_fu_lee_how_ai_can_save_our_humanity?language=en ✔ Subscribe on YouTube: http://bit.ly/38bZNAY ✔ Subscribe on Apple Podcast: https://buff.ly/2PycRL1 ✔ Subscribe on Spotify: https://bit.ly/growth-minds ✔ Subscribe on Google Podcast: https://buff.ly/2tua5hb ✔ Sponsor the podcast: http://bit.ly/growthsponsor Connect with me: ► Follow on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/heyseankim ► Follow on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/heyseankim ► Like on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/seankim Sean is an entrepreneur, investor, and host of Growth Minds. He is currently the CEO of Jumpspeak.com.

Kai-Fu Lee (@kaifulee) is an AI expert, CEO of Sinovation Ventures, former President of Google China, and co-author (with Chen Qiufan) of AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future. What We Discuss with Kai-Fu Lee: How AI will magnify the effects of the energy revolution, materials revolution, and life science revolution currently under way. How can we keep the data that trains AI to operate free from human and cultural biases and other inaccuracies? The four waves of AI and where we are on the path to truly autonomous AI that frees humans to do more worthwhile work. How human beings can avoid displacement when all the repetitive, soul-crushing tasks are being done by robots, and what society must do to keep this from widening the gap in economic inequality. How AI might be used to optimize the educational experience and make it engaging for every child by tailoring it to their individual interests. And much more... Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/567 Sign up for Six-Minute Networking -- our free networking and relationship development mini course -- at jordanharbinger.com/course! Like this show? Please leave us a review here -- even one sentence helps! Consider including your Twitter handle so we can thank you personally!

Kai-Fu Lee is one of the world's leading AI experts and a bestselling author. He founded Microsoft Asia's research lab that has trained CTOs and AI heads at Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba and Huawei. As President of Google China he helped establish the company in the Chinese market. And now, as CEO of Sinovation Ventures, he is investing in China's high-tech sector, giving him a unique perspective on how AI is set to change our world over the next 20 years. On September 22 Lee came to Intelligence Squared to explain how AI is at an inflection point and urged us to wake up to its radiant possibilities as well as to the existential threats it poses to life as we know it. In conversation with Kamal Ahmed, former Editorial Director of the BBC, he discussed his new work of ‘scientific fiction', AI 2041, co-authored with the celebrated novelist Chen Qiufan. The book offers up eye-opening scenarios of our techno-future – from a teenage girl's rebellion when AI gets in the way of romance to a rogue quantum computer scientist's revenge plot that imperils the world. To buy his new book AI 2041 with the Intelligence Squared discount click here: https://www.primrosehillbooks.com/product/ai-2041-ten-visions-for-our-future-kai-fu-lee-chen-qiufan/ Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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. You can access the second part of this episode, as well as the transcript and rundown to this week's conversation through the Hidden Forces Patreon Page. All subscribers gain access to our premium feed, which can be easily added to your favorite podcast application.  gain access to our overtime feed, which can be easily added to your favorite podcast application. If you enjoyed listening to today's episode of Hidden Forces you can help support the show by doing the following: Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | SoundCloud | YouTube | CastBox | RSS Feed Write us a review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe to our mailing list through the Hidden Forces Website Producer & Host: Demetri Kofinas Editor & Engineer: Stylianos Nicolaou Subscribe & Support the Podcast at https://patreon.com/hiddenforces Join the conversation on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter at @hiddenforcespod Follow Demetri on Twitter at @Kofinas Episode Recorded on 09/13/2021

Kai-Fu Lee is the CEO of Sinovation Ventures and the New York Times bestselling author of AI Superpowers. Lee was formerly the President of Google China and a senior executive at Microsoft and Apple. He chairs the Artificial Intelligence Council at the World Economic Forum. His new book, AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future, co-authored with Chen Qiufan, is a literary call-and-response: Qiufan calls to Lee with one fictional chapter on the future of AI, and Lee responds to Qiufan with a supporting, nonfictional analysis of those futures. Each chapter deals with the applications of a different technology and explores the human dilemmas which arise as a result. This novel approach not only educates, engages, and entertains readers but also encourages to think ahead on the moves we need to takes as companies and societies in order to maximize benefits and minimize negative consequences. In a conversation with Martin Reeves, Chairman of the BCG Henderson Insitute, Lee shares his thinking and predictions on artificial intelligence's potential applications, its social impact, and also the regulations required to tame it. *** About the BCG Henderson Institute The BCG Henderson Institute is the Boston Consulting Group's think tank, dedicated to exploring and developing valuable new insights from business, technology, economics, and science by embracing the powerful technology of ideas. The Institute engages leaders in provocative discussion and experimentation to expand the boundaries of business theory and practice and to translate innovative ideas from within and beyond business. For more ideas and inspiration, sign up to receive BHI INSIGHTS, our monthly newsletter, and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

El Salvador becomes the first country in the world to make Bitcoin legal tender - a move that sparked some small protests. We speak to John Dennehy, a journalist based in the capital San Salvador. Protonmail, an email provider which sold itself as a secure, private service, is under fire for handing police the IP address of a French activist - Eva Galperin of the Electronic Frontier Foundation discusses cybersecurity. Canada opens its borders to double-jabbed visitors, and we take a look at artificial intelligence: Kai Fu Lee, former CEO of Google China talks about the future of AI, and Kathryn Dill of the Wall Street Journal explains how one algorithm wasn't up to the job of sorting job applications. There's a bit of K-Pop to lighten the mood and throughout we're joined by Takara Small, technology reporter for the CBC and Timothy Martin of the Wall Street Journal. (Image: A protester wears a mask with the slogan "no to Bitcoin"/Credit: Reuters)

AI will be the defining development of the 21st century and in the next two decades it is set to transform our lives. Kai Fu Lee, a former CEO of Google China and AI pioneer tells us that the technology will revolutionise health and education and has the power to create great wealth but it also has a dark side. AI he says, can pose huge risks like when used in autonomous weapons. Kai Fu Lee believes that we are now at a turning point, and is urging society to wake up to the benefits and the existential threats. (Image: Kai Fu Lee, Image credit: Getty Images)

In this episode, we spoke to Xiaojun (Joanna) Guo, Senior Marketing Solution Manager at Google China, about how local businesses are going global with the help of Google China services. We also talked more broadly about Google’s operations in China. Listen and explore: 00:00 Intro 08:00 Google is a big data company running 8 platforms with more than 1 billion active users. 09:00 Google services in China 14:07 Warehousing for Google China, collaboration with JD to provide better logistics 16:31 Seeing differences between the Chinese market and the global market from the perspective of a Google China expert 19:00 Outbound business in China 20:50 D2C (direct to consumers) or brand independence strategy 22:38 Covid-19 shaped the readiness of Chinese brands to go abroad 26:31 Examples of Chinese make up brands who are going overseas now 27:21 The role of agencies and websites builders in this ecosystem: Chinese brands are building their own websites to go overseas 29:14 Chinese companies are doing well in gaming apps 32:00 The B2C market, four main subcategories 33:12 The B2B market and an advertising format 34:10 Opportunities for Chinese companies based on geography 38:40 How do you think Chinese companies are managing their advertisement budget when they already have offices overseas? 42:14 Perception of Chinese brands overseas and mistakes made by Chinese brands in pursuit of quick profits 47:18 Which sectors are the easiest and most difficult to develop overseas from the point of view of a Chinese brand? 48:43 Case study of a Chinese brand released an IPO

This week on CUTalks, we are speaking to Dr. Kai-fu Lee who is the Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures, a leading Chinese technology venture capital firm. He was also the founder of Microsoft Research Asia and the president of Google China as well as authoring the bestseller ‘AI Superpowers’. Kai-fu shared his journey into AI and gave an overview of the entrepreneurial landscape in China. He then went on to give insights into how governments can support AI, how humans can adapt as AI adopts certain tasks and how AI can revolutionise education. This podcast was produced by Carl Homer, Cambridge TV.

So you're into Tech. Great. This means this episode will speak directly to you. I'm so glad that I could have a sitdown with Anthony, Product Development Head of Google China, to share with us some of his insights about tech and his advice for those just about to start out. This has been an invaluable lesson for me. What do you think? What's your current struggle with tech right now? Finding your niche? Feel free to DM me over at Instagram @andreas.wx or Voice Message me at Anchor. Hope you find this episode useful. If you do, please help to pay it forward by sharing. Hey, it means lots! Anyway, stay happy and keep hustling yo! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/llmbydre/message

Google controls over 75% of the information that is on the web. As a result, Goole has positioned its tech company to be the arbitrator of what should be known and unknown. This style of control is strictly observed in China. Citizens in China are limited to the kind of data that they can gather and communicate. It seems that Google is following suit. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/vincent-rhodes4/message

Google controls over 75% of the information that is on the web. As a result, Goole has positioned its tech company to be the arbitrator of what should be known and unknown. This style of control is strictly observed in China. Citizens in China are limited to the kind of data that they can gather and communicate. It seems that Google is following suit. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/vincent-rhodes4/message

eicker.TV - EU vs Google, China forciert Gesichtscans und UN-Standardisierung - Frisch aus dem Netz. EU vs Google: "EU antitrust regulators are investigating Google's collection of data, the European Commission told Reuters on Saturday, suggesting the world's most popular internet search engine remains in its sights despite record fines in recent years. - Competition enforcers on both sides of the Atlantic are now looking into how dominant tech companies use and monetise data. - The EU executive said it was seeking information on how and why Alphabet unit Google is collecting data, confirming a Reuters story on Friday." - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-alphabet-antitrust-exclusive-idUSKBN1Y40NX China forciert Gesichtscans: "China launches mandatory face scans for mobile users - A new rule requiring face scans of customers signing up for new mobile plans in China came into effect Sunday (Dec. 1), amid widespread adoption of facial-recognition technology across the country. - In September, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced the change (link in Chinese) in a notice to telecom operators, saying it would 'protect the legitimate rights and interest of citizens in cyberspace.' The notice said that 'artificial intelligence and other technical methods' should be used to match the faces of customers buying new SIM cards with their identity documents." - https://qz.com/1759108/china-launches-mandatory-face-scans-for-mobile-users/ China forciert UN-Standardisierung von Gesichtserkennung: "Leaked documents show Chinese businesses are shaping UN facial recognition standards - The United Nations' standards for facial recognition, video monitoring, and city and vehicle surveillance are being shaped by Chinese tech groups including ZTE, Dahua and China Telecom, according to leaked documents reported by the Financial Times. ... Developing widely used standards could promote social acceptance of facial recognition and other AI-driven technologies. However, human rights lawyers argue standards being proposed by the ITU do not do enough to protect consumer privacy and data." - https://www.axios.com/facial-recognition-china-un-standards-itu-585838b3-7b24-467b-8097-dbc81bf18117.html eicker.TV ist der Videokanal von Gerrit Eicker und eicker.digital zu Technews und Netzpolitik. Wir sprechen Online. Frisch aus dem Netz. https://eicker.digital Wir sprechen Online. http://eicker.TV Frisch aus dem Netz. - https://YouTube.com/eickerTV - https://TikTok.com/@eickerTV - https://Instagram.com/eickerTV - https://SoundCloud.com/eickerTV - https://Twitter.com/eickerTV #eickerTV #Netzpolitik #Privatsphäre

Kai-Fu Lee is the Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures that manages a 2 billion dollar dual currency investment fund with a focus on developing the next generation of Chinese high-tech companies. He is the former President of Google China and the founder of what is now called Microsoft Research Asia, an institute that trained many of the AI leaders in China, including CTOs or AI execs at Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba, Lenovo, and Huawei. He was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by TIME Magazine. He is the author of seven best-selling books in Chinese,

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Kai Fu Lee, former head of Google China and founder of Sinovation Ventures, to talk about the dawning of the age of artificial intelligence (3:35), why this is the tip of the iceberg (5:50), why up to 40% of jobs will be replaced (7:30), how China’s approach differs (9:40), how AI is like nuclear technology (10:05), whether it should be a human right (17:15), tech colonialism (19:25), the dystopian elements (23:45), AI bias (26:10), the existential threat it poses (30:40), and remaking education for a new era (32:40). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Former president of Google China, Kai-Fu Lee, describes the rapid acceleration of artificial intelligence (AI) technology in China. He discusses what AI is and is not capable of and how AI challenges us to get much more clarity about what it means to be human. His new book AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order presents a much more realistic view of the future than the typical science fiction of most journalists. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dr. Kai-Fu Lee is the Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures and President of Sinovation Venture's Artificial Intelligence Institute. Sinovation Ventures, manages $2 billion in investment funds, is a leading venture capital firm focusing on developing the next generation of Chinese high-tech companies. Prior to founding Sinovation in 2009, Dr. Lee was the President of Google China and held executive positions at Microsoft, SGI, and Apple. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Times 100 in 2013, WIRED 25 Icons , Asian Business Leader 2018 by Asia House, and followed by over 50 million audience on social media. In the field of artificial intelligence, Dr. Lee built one of the first game playing programs to defeat a world champion (1988, Othello), as well as the world's first large-vocabulary, speaker-independent continuous speech recognition system. Dr. Lee founded Microsoft Research China, which was named as the hottest research lab by MIT Technology Review. Later renamed Microsoft Research Asia, this institute trained the great majority of AI leaders in China, including CTOs or AI heads at Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba, Lenovo, Huawei, and Haier. While with Apple, Dr. Lee led AI projects in speech and natural language, which have been featured on Good Morning America on ABC Television and the front page of Wall Street Journal. He has authored 10 U.S. patents, and more than 100 journal and conference papers. Altogether, Dr. Lee has been in artificial intelligence research, development, and investment for more than 30 years. His New York Time and Wall Street Journal bestselling book AI Superpowers discusses US-China co-leadership in the age of AI as well as the greater societal impacts brought upon by the AI technology revolution.   Connect Linkedin – https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaifulee/ Twitter – https://twitter.com/kaifulee Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai-Fu_Lee Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/kaifu_lee/ Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/drkaifulee/ Google+ – https://plus.google.com/101657038397569061811 Website – http://www.sinovationventures.com   People Mentioned Confucius Elon Musk – https://twitter.com/elonmusk   Resources VIP Kid – https://www.vipkidteachers.com/    Books AI Superpowers by Kai-Fu Lee: https://amzn.to/2QmNV6y

The influence of artificial intelligence on our world is only growing, as smart home products, algorithm-based streaming platforms, and even autonomous vehicles become a part of our daily lives. Since the 1990s, American tech companies in Silicon Valley have dominated the development and application of AI-driven technologies. However, AI pioneer Dr. Kai-Fu Lee explains that China has rapidly caught up with the United States, accelerating AI innovation and implementation in our daily lives. Lee argues that the future of AI will be even larger than the industrial revolution, posing unprecedented challenges and responsibilities for both AI superpowers. Are the United States and China going to cooperate or compete? Dr. Kai-Fu Lee is the chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures and president of Sinovation Venture’s Artificial Intelligence Institute. Sinovation Ventures, is a leading technology investment firm focusing on developing the next generation of Chinese high-tech companies. Prior to founding Sinovation in 2009, Dr. Lee was the president of Google China. Previously, he held executive positions at Microsoft, SGI, and Apple. Dr. Lee received his bachelor’s degree from Columbia University, Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University both in computer science, as well as honorary doctorate degrees from both Carnegie Mellon and the City University of Hong Kong. He is also a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). In the field of artificial intelligence, Dr. Lee founded Microsoft Research China, which was named as the hottest research lab by MIT Technology Review in 2004. Later renamed Microsoft Research Asia, this institute trained the great majority of AI leaders in China, including CTOs or AI heads at Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba, Lenovo, Huawei, and Haier. While with Apple, Dr. Lee led AI projects in speech and natural language, which have been featured on Good Morning America and in the Wall Street Journal. He has received 10 U.S. patents, published more than 100 journal and conference papers, and written seven top selling books in Chinese. He has over 50 million followers on social media.    

In this episode, we talk with one of the world’s leading experts on Artificial Intelligence: Kai-Fu Lee. Former CEO of Google China and author of the international bestseller “AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order”. It’s a fascinating look into what AI actually is, where the technology is going and how it is literally changing the global balance of power. We also look at what Europe can do to avoid missing out on the technology that is changing the world as we speak.

The internet has changed marketing and sales forever. I’m here to make sense of this chaos. I want companies to feel confident in their marketing. To be confident, businesses have to know what has changed, what has stayed the same, and what they can do about it.

Artificial intelligence promises to have a dramatic—and yes, disruptive—effect on education and over jobs during the next decade. And here’s a second big trend—the role of China and Chinese companies, particularly those building products or services laced with the machine learning algorithms that we call “AI.” If you wanted to get a glimpse into what these twin forces mean for the world—and for education and learning—there's perhaps no better expert than Kai-Fu Lee. Dr. Lee has done it all: He’s been an enormously influential researcher, driving forward work on AI. Originally from Taiwan, he came the US at age 11 and went on to earn degrees from Columbia University and Carnegie Mellon University. He then went on to have pivotal roles at Apple, Microsoft and Google, serving as president of Google China. He started a venture capital firm in 2009 based in Beijing called Sinoventures. He’s written eight top-selling books in China and has more than 50 million followers on social media. His latest book, AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley and the New world order, is almost two books in one: It tells the story of the development of artificial intelligence and why we should pay attention to this work. And he does a remarkably deft job of describing entrepreneurism in China, and giving us a peek at what he calls the “gladiator capitalism” that is giving rise to companies with billion dollar valuations and the power to change the world. It’s already hitting the best-seller charts. EdSurge caught up with Dr. Lee in California over a Saturday morning breakfast in Palo Alto. Here’s why Dr. Lee believes that AI—and particularly AI developed by Chinese companies—is fated to rock our world, and how we learn.

w/ Kevin Roose (Columnist, The New York Times)- *Black* Intellectuals- Live @ The Comedy Cellar- All the Presidents Rogues- Nature, Severity, and Consequence- Facebook's Peril- Google's Dragonfly- China's Citizenship Scores Recorded: PM 11/29/2018Published: 11/30/2018 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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In the 1990s, as the dotcom era began to unfold, artificial intelligence (AI) expert and developer Kai-Fu Lee was busy at Apple streamlining many of the company’s early R&D projects. Those initial days, or the era of development, as Dr. Lee has since come describe it, were dominated by American technological innovation. Corporations like Apple and Microsoft paved the way for Silicon Valley companies to become global leaders. However, as Dr. Lee details in a new book, AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order, we have moved to the era of AI implementation, and Silicon Valley is no longer the center of gravity it once was. While American tech giants remain formidable players, the most prominent companies in areas of speech synthesis, computer vision, and machine translation are all Chinese. Moreover, Chinese consumers are significantly more comfortable than their American counterparts in embracing the growing role of AI in their daily lives. For instance, unlike in the United States, the overwhelming majority of Chinese transactions now occur on platforms such as Weibo, allowing companies to gather data at an unprecedented rate. With the increasing industrial application of AI, the potential for huge numbers of American and Chinese jobs to be replaced by technology has enormous economic and political implications. On October 2, Dr. Kai-Fu Lee shared his views on the future of AI in both countries, as well as possible risks with the National Committee.   Dr. Kai-Fu Lee is the chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures and president of Sinovation Venture’s Artificial Intelligence Institute. Sinovation Ventures, is a leading technology investment firm focusing on developing the next generation of Chinese high-tech companies. Prior to founding Sinovation in 2009, Dr. Lee was the president of Google China. Previously, he held executive positions at Microsoft, SGI, and Apple. Dr. Lee received his bachelor’s degree from Columbia University, Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University both in computer science, as well as honorary doctorate degrees from both Carnegie Mellon and the City University of Hong Kong. He is also a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Kai-Fu Lee, the CEO of Sinovation Ventures and former president of Google China, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, "AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order." In this episode:00:55 - Lee's background & Google China03:32 - Why he left Google05:41 - Why American companies struggled to compete in China09:46 - It's not all because of the government12:23 - Investing in artificial intelligence18:42 - What "AI Superpowers" means21:15 - Data and privacy in China vs. the West25:17 - Where AI is going next30:17 - How Lee thinks about American tech companies33:09 - The impact of AI on jobs40:10 - The political implications of those job changes43:30 - The responsibilities of tech creators and investors Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Roy Green Show Podcast How hard is the Canadian economy being hit by the NAFTA negotiations? Donald Trump has threatened that auto tariffs will be the “ruination” of Canada. There has been a lot of focus on the Trans Mountain pipeline extension. But there is another pipeline option waiting for development, once that would protect indigenous rights. Artificial Intelligence is increasingly impacting the world stage. Kai-Fu Lee is the former president of Google China, he joins Roy to discuss how AI will massively change governments, economies, infrastructures and lives over the next few decades. Guests: Mark Warner, Canada/U.S. Trade Lawyer Calvin Helin, Chairman of the Eagle Spirit Pipeline and Aboriginal Lawyer Kai-Fu Lee, Chairman and CEO at Sinovation Ventures, Former President of Google China See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Google invests $550 billion in JD.com, China’s second-largest online retailer. Apple announces a partnership with Oprah Winfrey. And Incredibles 2 racks up a record debut. Analysts Jason Moser and Taylor Muckerman discuss those stories and talk about two public companies they’d like to see go private.

GGV Capital's Hans Tung and Zara Zhang interview Kai-Fu Lee, the founder and CEO of Sinovation Ventures (an early-stage VC fund in China) and a renowned computer scientist known for his work in artificial intelligence. He was the founding president of Google China and played a key role in establishing Microsoft Research Asia as well. In this episode, Kai-Fu recounts the journey that took him from Taiwan to Tennessee and then to prominence in the tech sector. At first a computer science student working on speech recognition, he became one of the world's experts on artificial intelligence. He has helped U.S. giants like Google and Microsoft expand into China and assisted Chinese entrepreneurs as an investor, mentor, and thought leader. Join our listeners' community via WeChat/Slack at 996.ggvc.com/community. GGV Capital also produces a biweekly email newsletter in English, also called "996," which has a roundup of the week's most important happenings in tech in China. Subscribe at 996.ggvc.com. The 996 Podcast is brought to you by GGV Capital, a multi-stage venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, Shanghai, and Beijing. We have been partnering with leading technology entrepreneurs for the past 18 years from seed to pre-IPO. With $3.8 billion in capital under management across eight funds, GGV invests in globally minded entrepreneurs in consumer internet, e-commerce, frontier tech, and enterprise. GGV has invested in over 280 companies, with 30 companies valued at over $1 billion. Portfolio companies include Airbnb, Alibaba, Bytedance (Toutiao), Ctrip, Didi Chuxing, DOMO, Hashicorp, Hellobike, Houzz, Keep, Musical.ly, Slack, Square, Wish, Xiaohongshu, YY, and others. Find out more at ggvc.com.

GGV Capital’s Hans Tung and Zara Zhang interview Kai-Fu Lee, the founder and CEO of Sinovation Ventures (an early-stage VC fund in China) and a renowned computer scientist known for his work in artificial intelligence. He was the founding president of Google China and played a key role in establishing Microsoft Research Asia as well. In this episode, Kai-Fu recounts the journey that took him from Taiwan to Tennessee and then to prominence in the tech sector. At first a computer science student working on speech recognition, he became one of the world’s experts on artificial intelligence. He has helped U.S. giants like Google and Microsoft expand into China and assisted Chinese entrepreneurs as an investor, mentor, and thought leader. Join our listeners' community via WeChat/Slack at 996.ggvc.com/community. GGV Capital also produces a biweekly email newsletter in English, also called "996," which has a roundup of the week's most important happenings in tech in China. Subscribe at 996.ggvc.com. The 996 Podcast is brought to you by GGV Capital, a multi-stage venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, Shanghai, and Beijing. We have been partnering with leading technology entrepreneurs for the past 18 years from seed to pre-IPO. With $3.8 billion in capital under management across eight funds, GGV invests in globally minded entrepreneurs in consumer internet, e-commerce, frontier tech, and enterprise. GGV has invested in over 280 companies, with 30 companies valued at over $1 billion. Portfolio companies include Airbnb, Alibaba, Bytedance (Toutiao), Ctrip, Didi Chuxing, DOMO, Hashicorp, Hellobike, Houzz, Keep, Musical.ly, Slack, Square, Wish, Xiaohongshu, YY, and others. Find out more at ggvc.com.

If a trillion dollar market opportunity exists, you can bet the people at Google are thinking about it. Within X, Google’s most secretive lab, they’ve been working on solving the problem of how to make building construction more efficient in order to deal with the world’s severe and worsening urban housing shortage. By the year 2050, the global population is expected to grow by 2.2 billion people, and 90% of that growth is expected to take place in cities that are in dire need of new housing. In China, one company has figured out how to deal with this challenge by prefabricating components for skyscrapers inside of a factory. Sponsored by: If you’re a startup, apply for DigitalOcean’s Hatch program, where if selected, you’ll have access to their cloud for 12 months, in addition to technical training and mentorship. You can also go to do.co/predictingourfuture and ask the sales team for a free trial. Interviewees Episode Excerpt Google & Flux When you hear the word Google, you first and foremost associate it with search. You have a disagreement with someone: let’s Google it. You want to know where to vacation: Google it. You want to know what a company does: Google it. But if you’ve been watching Google over the years, you know that Google does much more, than well, Google. There’s Gmail and Google Hangouts and Google Apps and Google Drive. The relationship between these offshoots became so obvious that Google just decided to brand them collectively as the “G Suite.” Somewhere along Google’s path of phenomenal success, the company decided to start working on some super interesting and hard problems that are really unrelated to the company’s initial mission of organizing the world’s information. The founders of Google have become so invested in developing other businesses that the company is no longer called Google. In January of 2016, the company was renamed Alphabet, with Google becoming just one of their subsidiaries. Calico is Alphabet’s biotech subsidiary that is focused on extending human life. Verily is Alphabet’s life sciences subsidiary. One of their projects is to develop contact lenses for diabetics that are able to determine when a person’s glucose levels are running high. And then there is Google X, now referred to simply as “X,” the secretive think tank within Alphabet pioneering projects like the driverless car that will one day make the act of driving obsolete. On the website for X, the mission statement reads: “We’re a moonshot factory. Our mission is to invent and launch ‘moonshot’ technologies that we hope could someday make the world a radically better place.” Google can be very secretive about their work, and this is ground zero for where their secret projects are born. X’s stealth projects have one of three outcomes: they are elevated to a division within Google and made public, they are spun out to become a separate stand-alone company, or they are killed. To date, the only company to ever come out of X and be spun out into a separate entity is Flux. I spoke with Jen Carlile, a Co-founder of Flux, who initially joined Google as a software engineer in 2010. Jen Carlile: “The way that Google X works is they identify what they call ‘world scale problems’ and then put a group of smart people together and say, ‘try to come up with a solution for this that can be tackled within a 10 year time horizon.’ So our big hairy problem was urban population growth. And the Google X leadership recognized that the pace at which we're building buildings and with the way that we do it now, we're simply not going to be able to keep up with urban population growth.” In 1803, just 3% of the world’s population resided in urban areas. I have this romantic image of living in the 18th century in a glamorous European city. But as it turns out, if you lived in a city in the early 1800’s, you were part of a minority.

Henry Mance reviews Google's transformation from a profitable search engine to a tech conglomerate, China's decision to devalue its currency and the abuse of migrants by British employers, and talks to Andrew Hill, management editor about the best business books of the year. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this inaugural episode, Kaiser, Jeremy, and Bill Bishop sit down to discuss the landscape surrounding Google’s pullout in China. They seek to answer: What exactly happened earlier this week with Google's inaccessibility? Does Yasheng Huang have the right take on their pull-out of China, or is Tania Branigan from the Guardian more on the money? What are the consequences for Google's future in Asia, and what does any of this mean to the average Chinese user? The song used in the show is an excerpt from “The Huntsman” (猎人 lièrén) from Chunqiu’s (春秋 chūnqiū; Spring and Autumn) first and eponymous album. Both song and album are available on iTunes. Bill Bishop is among the most recognizable China-watchers in the business. His long-running Sinocism newsletter is an essential resource for serious followers of China policy, and he is regularly quoted in a variety of major news outlets reporting on China.

Live from Atlas Purveyors. Google claims they're not going to abide by China's rules. Censorship is becoming increasingly difficult to police around the world. It's up to citizens to determine what's acceptable, and take control if they don't like it. Parents should ultimately get control over what their kids see, not governments. What is community decency? It's arrogant for us (the US) to dictate what's acceptable in other countries. If a business wants to play in a country, they have to abide by that country's rules. Bing is OK with China's rules.Find us at http://callisto.fm or http://threeinsight.com - and as always, we're brought to you by Blue Microphones http://bluemic.com

SEGuru breaks down the SMX West 2010 Keynote conversation featuring Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, where he spoke about issues including: Microsoft Bing is being planned to be made default engine on iPhone, the Yahoo deal, Google issues in China and more.

SEGuru breaks down the SMX West 2010 Keynote conversation featuring Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, where he spoke about issues including: Microsoft Bing is being planned to be made default engine on iPhone, the Yahoo deal, Google issues in China and more.

A slight goof up has led to this delayed release. Saket & I recorded this episode on the 26th of Jan but is being released almost 5 days later. Blame me. More details will follow in the next episode. In the episode we cover IPL 3 live broadcast on Youtube, updates ont he Google-China story, Apple get cozy with Microsoft (again) and it seems like using patents to sue each over out of business is becoming fashionable.

A slight goof up has led to this delayed release. Saket & I recorded this episode on the 26th of Jan but is being released almost 5 days later. Blame me. More details will follow in the next episode. In the episode we cover IPL 3 live broadcast on Youtube, updates ont he Google-China story, Apple get cozy with Microsoft (again) and it seems like using patents to sue each over out of business is becoming fashionable.

The year has just started but is full of news. We talk about the privacy discussions around Facebook and we look into the Google-China situation. (Download MP3) Facebook and Privacy RWW on the topic Twitter is Profitable Deals based on traffic can go sour very quickly Interview with an employee Google vs. China Google’s blog post […]

Bob Berring, Connie Crosby, Roger Skalbeck, Marcia Dority Baker and Richard Leiter discuss some of the important issues of the day.