{"id":129465,"date":"2021-10-24T14:44:17","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T21:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/ai-2041-co-author-kai-fu-lee-talks-about-ais-sweeping-future-and-how-he-invests-in-it"},"modified":"2021-10-24T14:44:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T21:44:17","slug":"ai-2041-co-author-kai-fu-lee-talks-about-ais-sweeping-future-and-how-he-invests-in-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/ai-2041-co-author-kai-fu-lee-talks-about-ais-sweeping-future-and-how-he-invests-in-it","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAI 2041\u201d Co-Author Kai-Fu Lee Talks About AI\u2019s Sweeping Future And How He Invests In It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-2041-co-author-kai-fu-lee-talks-about-ais-sweeping-future-and-how-he-invests-in-it2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AI is changing the way we live and the global balance of military power. Ex-Pentagon software chief Nicholas Chaillan said this month the U.S. has already lost out to China in military applications. Even 98-year-old Henry Kissinger weighs in on AI as co-author of a new book due next month, \u201cThe Age of AI: And Our Human Future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kai-Fu Lee has been sizing up the implications for decades. The former Google executive turned venture capitalist looked at U.S.-China competition in his 2018 book, \u201cAI Superpowers.\u201d His new book, \u201cAI 2041,\u201d co-authored with science fiction writer Chen Qiufan, suggests how AI will bring sweeping changes to daily life in the next 20 years. I talked earlier this month to Lee, who currently oversees $2.7 billion of assets at Beijing-headquartered Sinovation Ventures. Sinovation has backed seven AI start-ups that have become \u201cunicorns\u201d worth more than $1 billion: AInnovation, 4Paradigm, Megvii, Momenta, WeRide, Horizon Robotics and Bitman. We discussed Lee\u2019s new book, the investments he\u2019s made based on his predictions in it, and where the U.S.-China AI rivalry now stands. Excerpts follow.<\/p>\n<p>Full Story:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI is changing the way we live and the global balance of military power. Ex-Pentagon software chief Nicholas Chaillan said this month the U.S. has already lost out to China in military applications. Even 98-year-old Henry Kissinger weighs in on AI as co-author of a new book due next month, \u201cThe Age of AI: And [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}