What are the stems of Kant, Fahai, and AI? Tsinghua Professor Liu Yunhao's lecture "The New Industrial Revolution in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" at Quzhou Second Middle School
The New Industrial Revolution in the Age of Artificial Intelligence", is your heart a little bit in denial when you see such a high-end and esoteric lecture title? On December 21, in Quzhou Second Middle School, a lecture presented by Professor Liu Yunhao from Tsinghua University was nevertheless lively and interesting. Faced with such a profound topic, Professor Liu Yunhao ignited the students' enthusiasm with his lectures on mathematics, philosophy, and Buddhism, with poetry, ancient languages, and English all flying together.
Professor Liu Yunhao talked about Alan Turing, the "Thinker in the Long Run", to Kant, the "Super Geek", and from "The Wizard of Oz" to Fahai, and the students were completely attracted by his erudition and knowledge of the East and the West.
The development of artificial intelligence is inseparable from mathematics, physics and philosophy, and "Li Zi - Tang Wen", "King Mu of Zhou on his western tour", "Qian Kun in his sleeve" and "Sikong See" turn out to be inextricably linked to artificial intelligence. "The three industrial revolutions thrust human society into the steam age, the electrical age, and the information age, respectively." "The new industrial revolution will be the era of intelligence coming into the world where everything is connected." "Professor Liu has used convincing, interesting quotations, in-depth, witty and vivid narratives to make us understand something from these profound and difficult professional knowledge. It turns out that AI is very close to us.
"The mind of man is not a vessel to be filled, but a torch that needs to be lit." "All advanced technology looks the same as magic." It will take the tireless efforts of our generation to make this magic happen. All the students of the second year of Quzhou Second High School also thanked Professor Liu, the great wizard, for unveiling a corner of the cloth curtain covering the magical world.
Student Evaluation.
"Funny without being sassy and handsome full of talent!" "A good-looking skin is one in a thousand, an interesting soul is one in a hundred!" ...... These are the words of admiration from the sophomores of Quzhou Second Middle School for the main character of the lecture: Professor Liu Yunhao of Tsinghua University.
Biography of Prof. Yunhao Liu
He is a Distinguished Professor of Changjiang Scholars at Tsinghua University, a National Outstanding Youth, an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, and the Honorary Chairman of ACM China Council. He received his B.E. degree in Automation from Tsinghua University in 1995; M.A. degree in Advanced Translation from Beijing Foreign Studies University in 1997; M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Michigan State University in 2004; Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Head of Department Graduate School at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from 2004-2011; Researcher and Ph.D. Supervisor at National Laboratory of Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University from 2011-2013; Dean of School of Software, Tsinghua University from 2013-2017.
Text and Pictures: Sophomore Year Team Chen Ke
Edited by Shaojie Fan and Mu Mu
Reviewed by Zhu Lingyu
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