AI expert Harry Shum gives talk at UM on AI creation

The University of Macau (UM) today (7 December) held a lecture titled ‘A Gentle Introduction to AI Creation’, which was the first of the University Lecture Series for this academic year. The speaker, Dr Harry Shum, is an expert in artificial intelligence, a renowned computer scientist, a foreign member of the National Academy of Engineering of the United States, an international member of the Royal Academy of Engineering of the United Kingdom, a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Association for Computing Machinery in the US, and a former executive vice president of Microsoft. During the lecture, Dr Shum discussed the basis of AI creation by drawing on Microsoft’s experience in developing its AI robot Xiao Bing. He also talked about the three guiding principles of AI creation and other issues that arise from AI creation. 

Source: Rector’s Office