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Top AI brains envision what’s next for AI

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Officiating guest Prof. Sun Dong (front row, sixth left); symposium co-chairs Prof. Harry Shum (front row, fourth left), Prof. Nancy Ip (front row, fourth right) and Prof. Pascale Fung (front row, third left) as well as keynote speaker Prof. Yann LeCun (front row, fifth left) in group photo with Prof. Teng Jin-Guang, GBAAA Vice Council Chair and President of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (back row, first left), Prof. S Joe QIN, President of Lingnan University (back row, third left) and other distinguished speakers and guests.

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It will take years or decades for the development of artificial intelligence (AI) to reach human-level AI. Robots will not take over the world. “Open source” is the only option.

These are among the thought-provoking insights that Turing Prize Winner Prof. Yann LeCun, hailed by the media as one of the “Godfathers of AI,” has shared with AI experts, scholars, industry leaders from around the world and students at a symposium held recently in Hong Kong.

Entitled AI NEW HORIZONS 2023: A Symposium with Scientific Leaders, the symposium was jointly hosted by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and the Greater Bay Area Association of Academicians (GBAAA). 

In his keynote speech, Prof. LeCun envisioned objective-driven AI will help predict the future, and Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA) model will make a paradigm shift in predictive modeling, that JEPA could bring about a “new Renaissance.”

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Prof. Yann LeCun delivers a keynote speech on Objective-Driven AI.
Prof. Yann LeCun delivers a keynote speech on Objective-Driven AI.
AI, Prof. LeCun said, will become a “shared infrastructure” in the future, like the Internet today. That also means, he said, AI platforms must be made “open source.” “All interactions with the digital world will be mediated by AI assistants… They will constitute a repository of all human knowledge and culture,” the leading AI expert said.

The issue of “open source” AI platform was further discussed at a “Fireside Chat” among Prof. LeCun, HKUST Council Chairman and AI expert Prof. Harry Shum and Director of HKUST’s Center for AI Research Prof. Pascal Fung, at the symposium held at the Asia Society Hong Kong Center.

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