AI Godfather Jordan is appointed Chairman of the Ant Financial Science Think Tank

【Global Science and Technology Report】 Jordan came to China to sign a contract! But it is not in the CBA but in Ant Financial.

On May 27th, Ant Financial CEO Jing Xiandong announced at the Technical Day Conference that Ant Financial officially established a scientific think tank and will recruit world-class scholars from all fields in the world. The first member of the scientific think tank is the artificial intelligence godfather Michael I. Jordan. He will serve as the first chairman of the Ant Financial Science Think Tank.

Professor Michael Jordan is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He is an academician of the American Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the only scientist in the field of artificial intelligence who has achieved this achievement, and is also one of the founders of machine learning. His student Tao Li is full of people, and Wu Enda, who is well-known in the country, is one of them.

To the surprise of the audience, Jordan took the tie after receiving the letter of appointment in the hands of Jing Xiandong. "There are two kinds of companies in Silicon Valley," he said. "One is an old-school technology company that likes suits and shoes. The other is an innovative company that is full of vigor. I don't even look at the ants. I don't wear a tie, so I put it too. Tie it!"

Explaining why this invitation from the other side of the ocean was accepted, Jordan said, “The value of some companies is to make the rich richer. Even though this is not a bad thing, I value the company’s efforts to use technology and data to make more sense. Ordinary people's lives have become better, and Ant Financial is one of the few companies to do so. I'm glad that I have joined the family now."

"I believe in science and technology for the benefit of mankind," Jordan told reporters, because he had previously established trust with the Ant Financial Team's joint research project at the University of California, Berkeley. More importantly, he shared the same idea of ​​the latter using technology to promote inclusive finance: various technical application scenarios and technical problems to be solved by Ant Financial, which can give fuller play to the technical value of his research field.

Cheng Li, Chief Technology Officer of Ant Financial Services, said that Michael Jordan is chairman of the Ant Science Think Tank and will assist the Think Tank in promoting the establishment and operation of its members. This think-tank will attract world-class scholars in the fields of machine learning, security, computing infrastructure, blockchain, and biometrics, and “create the future of global digital inclusive finance together with Ant Financial Services.”

It is understood that the hiring of top industry scholars as senior advisors has long been a routine practice of Silicon Valley Star Technology Corporation. Google and Facebook are closely connected with the academic community and leveraging their strength in the field of artificial intelligence and image recognition.

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Deep cooperation between Ant Financial and academics (part)

In 2014, ants sent painter Yu Yuan from Purdue University’s Department of Computer Science as his chief data scientist and formed the AI ​​team. At present, AI has been widely used in ant applications such as smart customer service, transaction risk control, loan models, intelligent investment advice, and image loss determination.

In 2016, Ant teamed with the only Chinese recipient of the Turing Award, and Yao Qizhi, Director of the Institute of Cross-informatics at Tsinghua University, set up a digital financial technology laboratory. The two sides conducted research in areas such as blockchain technology, artificial intelligence, and intelligent investment advice.

In early 2017, Ants became a partner of RISE Laboratories at Berkeley University in the United States, working together to provide AI with a secure, real-time intelligent decision-making computing platform.

In March 2017, Ant Financial’s layout in basic science became part of Alibaba’s NASA plan. The NASA plan aims to mobilize more than 20,000 scientists and engineers from around the world to join in the new technology strategy. It plans to build a strong independent R&D part in the next 20 years, establish a new mechanism and system, and reserve 2 billion people for core technologies.

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