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Are we already enslaved to AI? With Nicholas Young

2019/8/16
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Nicholas Young: 人工智能(AI)的本质是从数据中学习并应用这些知识来完成任务。AI擅长处理重复性任务和规则明确的任务，通过大量数据训练可以超越人类。AI的应用应该基于用户需求，以提高效率或降低成本为目标。在商业领域，AI可以用于推荐引擎，帮助企业更精准地了解用户需求，但数据规模对个性化推荐至关重要。对于小型公司而言，建立品牌情感连接比依赖数据驱动的推荐引擎更重要。AI在社交媒体中的应用，例如抖音/TikTok的视频推荐算法，可以提高用户留存率，但也可能缺乏道德考量，导致用户沉迷于数字内容。AI行业需要科学家、工程师、产品经理和设计师等多种人才。AI算法的运行目标由人类设定，AI根据设定参数进行优化。AI技术发展迅速，控制AI的关键在于设定明确的目标和参数。AI推荐引擎已经对人们的生活产生影响，让人们沉迷于数字内容。我们需要思考如何引导AI技术发展，并设定符合社会价值观的准则。过度依赖AI和虚拟世界可能导致人们与现实世界脱节。AI技术提高了效率，但关键在于如何利用节省下来的时间。需要区分AI带来的效率提升与人们如何利用额外时间之间的关系。AI技术本身并非邪恶，关键在于如何使用它。人脸识别技术在提高公共安全的同时，也引发了对隐私的担忧。AI技术可以用于改善儿童安全，例如在幼儿园监控儿童安全。AI技术的应用需要考虑社会信任和道德伦理问题。AI是人类行为的反映，需要社会共同决定如何使用AI技术。AI的应用需要提高透明度，并赋予用户更多选择权。 主持人：中国利用机器人和AI技术推动经济发展。AI在B2C领域的应用主要集中在文本、语音、图像和视频识别以及推荐引擎等方面。社交媒体平台利用AI算法推送个性化内容，以提高用户留存率。关于AI的风险存在两种观点：一是AI可能失控并主宰人类；二是AI只是被用来优化人类劳动力的工具。需要讨论AI技术控制权的问题：是私营公司、政府还是公众共同拥有。

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The episode begins with a discussion on defining AI and its current applications, featuring insights from Nicholas Young about AI's role in advanced manufacturing and its use in e-commerce platforms like JD.com.
  • AI is described as a system that interprets and learns from data to complete tasks.
  • China is using AI and robotics to move from low-value to advanced manufacturing.
  • Nicholas Young's background includes leading AI innovation teams at JD.com.

Shownotes Transcript

One of the most hyped up words of 2018, AI or Artificial Intelligence has lately been portrayed as something that can enslave the human kind by everything from tech founders (Elon Musk) to tv shows (Black Mirror).   This week’s episode we have a special guest, Nicholas Young, to talk about this topic. Understanding what AI actually is, what it is used for currently, how the future will look like and discussing if we actually already are enslaved to AI.   Nicholas Young is an entrepreneur running the fintech startup Karakul based in Shenzhen. Born in the United States, Nicholas moved to China to pursue his passion around entrepreneurship and tech. He has held multiple product and innovation centric roles in China after finishing MBA at Stanford University with the most recent being leading the innovation team within the AI department of JD.com, China’s second largest e-commerce company.   Throughout the episode we will: Clarify what AI actually means and what it is used for The impact of AI on society, user behavior and our dependency on Social Media The future of AI, if Elon Musk is right and questioning whether we maybe already are enslaved? Digitally China is a subjective but independent depiction of the tech scene in China. Audio clips used in the podcast have not been distorted nor taken out of context and are included for commentary and educational purposes and thus shall be considered “Fair Use”. Digitally China ispowered by RADII (www.radiichina.com)), an independent media platform exploring China from all angles.