Speech: From deep learning to deep understanding资料文件与下载

Date Time: 20 July 2020, 21:00-21:45 Beijing

Description: In this talk, I will discuss some aspects of current progress in machine learning and artificial intelligence: unreasonable effectiveness of big data, unreasonable demand of computing power, and unreasonable procrastination of deep understanding. I will also propose a few directions that we should invest and pursue towards an elusive future of robust and general intelligence.

Speaker: Professor Harry Shum (SHEN Xiangyang), Adjunct Professor of Tsinghua University, Former Executive Vice President of Microsoft Corporation, Artificial Intelligence and Research Group

Bio Professor Harry Shum 

Harry Shum, Foreign Member of the National Academy of Engineering, USA, International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK, IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, and Former Executive Vice President of Microsoft Corporation, Artificial Intelligence and Research Group. He was appointed Adjunct Professor in the Institute for Advanced Study in 2005 and since then has supervised 18 PhD students in the field of Computer Science and Technology for Tsinghua. Previously, he was responsible for driving Microsoft's overall AI strategy and forward-looking research and development efforts spanning infrastructure, services, apps and agents. He oversaw AI-focused product groups including Bing and Cortana. He also led Microsoft Research, one of the world's premier computer science research organizations, and its integration with the engineering teams across the company.