Houston Chinese Business and Trade Federation hosted a global online AI seminar titled “Impacts and Trends of Artificial Intelligence Technology” on Saturday, April 27th at 9:00 pm (US-China Time), attracting over 200 attendees from around the world.
Prominent figures such as Huang Xingyi from the World Federation of Chinese Business and Economic Associations, Wu Yiming and Zhang Shengyi from the North American Taiwan Chamber of Commerce, Liu Liqi and others from the World Chinese Commercial and Financial Women Entrepreneurs Association, Wang Yingrong from the Overseas Chinese Education Center, Liu Zhizhong from the Houston Chinese Business and Trade Federation, and former president Huang Chunlan were all in attendance.
The main speaker, Gu Jiranzhi, is the Executive Partner of TA Taiwan Chuan Suo/XCEL NEXT Venture Capital Fund, Director of the International CEO Elite Institute, and has previously served as the head of the strategic department at Foxconn Group. During the seminar, he presented the different stages of development of AI humanoid and “superhuman” through videos, prompting participants to contemplate the significance thereof. Topics included the impact and importance on future industries, trends in development, and the challenges and issues it poses for humanity.
The key elements for the commercialization of AI are summed up in three words: “big, human, things” – big data, human intelligence, and the Internet of Things. The integration of AI (Artificial Intelligence) and IoT (Internet of Things) offers vast creative space for development that can extend to various application areas such as food, clothing, housing, and transportation. The potential applications of artificial intelligence are almost limitless, as showcased by Gu Jiranzhi’s introduction to ten major AI application areas.
Gu Jiranzhi highlighted the top ten trends of artificial intelligence in 2023, with the highest application rate at 19% for the “personalized category,” creating personalized services, retail, marketing, and more based on audience preferences and behaviors. Other categories include communication (17%), biological research (17%), and then categories such as imaging, synthetic effects, programming and apps, film and television production, architecture, semiconductors, voice cloning, insurance claim processing, music, and art. As Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever of OpenAI stated, humans must choose to merge with machines.
Quoting Innovation Works Chairman Li Kaifu, “To cope with the employment situation in the AI era, we must first understand the characteristics of AI, what capabilities AI lacks, and what types of work it cannot perform: creativity, empathy, flexibility.” Gu Jiranzhi emphasized that “human” is the purpose of humans, with AI serving as a tool. Humanity seeks career success, family happiness, and financial satisfaction. “Human” is the meaning behind all existence and the purpose of all operations.
The seminar concluded with a lively question-and-answer session where participants posed various questions, which Gu Jiranzhi answered one by one. When asked about whether international organizations are beginning to implement legal regulations and sanctions on AI, he mentioned the establishment of a department called “Super Artificial Intelligence” last year, dedicated to researching how to use artificial intelligence to prevent artificial intelligence.