How Google's Former China Chief Thinks AI Will Reshape Teaching - EdSurge News

Artificial intelligence promises to have a dramatic--and yes, disruptive--effect on U.S. education and jobs in the next decade. But that technology won't be entirely homegrown: Chinese companies, particularly those building products or services laced with the machine learning algorithms, are increasingly playing a role in the tools that we call "AI." There are few that understand what these forces mean for the world--and for education and learning--better than Kai-Fu Lee. Lee has been an enormously influential researcher, driving forward work on AI. Originally from Taiwan, he came the U.S. at age 11 and went on to earn degrees from Columbia University and Carnegie Mellon University. He then went on to work at Apple, Microsoft and Google, where he served as president of Google China.