TikTok’s Shou Chew expects an AI science breakthrough within three years
TikTok chief executive Shou Chew expects AI to deliver a major scientific breakthrough within two to three years. He named physics, biotech, chemistry and materials science. Chew spoke on Monday at DBS Bank’s Asia Future Forward Conference in Singapore, CNBC reported.
“In the next two to three years, we’re going to have a real scientific breakthrough: physics, biotech, chemistry, material science, because of AI. It’s very, very, very possible,” Chew said, according to CNBC.
Shee Tse Koon of DBS moderated the session, according to the conference programme.
Not there yet
Chew also said people may expect too much of AI for now.
“I think in the short term we are probably overestimating it, but in the long term we are probably underestimating it,” he said, CNBC reported.
People still handle the nuances of visual recognition and long-term memory retrieval better than AI, Chew said. Gao Yuan and Gabrielle...
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