WUZHEN, China, May 31, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Liulishuo as a
world's leading AI+Education company was invited to the Future of
Artificial Intelligence forum held in Wuzhen, China from May 23rd to
27th. As part of the Future of Go summit, the forum opened
with the first game in the three-part "man-vs-machine" Go series
between Google's upgraded AlphaGo and Ke
Jie, the world's top Go player. It would also share AI's
most recent achievements and innovations to the world under the
watchful eyes of over one thousand different media outlets in the
following days.
The forum opened on May 23 with
the first game in the three-part "man-vs-machine" Go series between
Google's upgraded AlphaGo and Ke
Jie, the world's top Go player. Two of Liulishuo's
co-founders, CEO Yi Wang and Chief
Scientist Hui Lin, as well as its
Chief Algorithm Engineer Dr. Yi Sun
who joined Liulishuo early this year, watched the whole game
unfold together. Dr. Sun, being the first Chinese student of
Jurgen Schmidhuber, the "father of
artificial intelligence" had a particular interest in the
outcome. After the game concluded, Demis Hassabis, CEO and
co-founder of DeepMind, had a long discussion with the Liulishuo
team and praised Liulishuo's achievements in education and
technology. Both parties are looking forward to deeper cooperation
in the future.
On May 24, the second day of the
summit, many "big names" in artificial intelligence joined the
Future of AI Forum, including Hassabis, Executive Chairman of
Alphabet Eric Schmidt; and Jeff
Dean, legendary senior engineer of the Google Brain Team.
Before the forum, Yi Wang discussed
future opportunities in education with Dean, who thought highly of
Liulishuo's business model. During a presentation shortly
afterwards, he pointed out the limitations extant in the modern
education industry, saying that students can never share the same
amount of resources from one instructor among a class of 30 people.
One instructor can only reach a limited number of students
effectively, with limited time devoted to each pupil. As such, "AI
+ Education" could become an exciting formula in the future.
That afternoon, Yi Wang also gave
a presentation about some potential applications of AI in education
at the Future of AI Forum. Yi Wang
pointed to three major deficiencies he sees in the traditional
education systems: low efficiency, high cost, and severe inequality
of resource distribution. Liulishuo self-developed the "AI English
Teacher", an intelligent adaptive learning system for English
language students to address these shortcomings. This was supported
by the world's leading speech recognition engine and the world's
largest collected speech corpus of Chinese English-language
students. This software was demonstrated to triple the learning
efficiency achieved by human teachers according to CEFR (The Common
European Framework of Reference for Languages) standards, providing
real-time feedback through its multi-dimensional, multi-granularity
speech scoring engine. Liulishuo's self-evolving AI English Teacher
is now providing an efficient, affordable, and consistent English
learning experience to over 43 million users worldwide.
During this summit, a new generation of AI companies including
AlphaGo and Liulishuo demonstrated their achievements within their
relevant specialized areas. As a major force in current
technological advancements, many specialists attest to AI's huge
potential impact in industries like education, finance,
transportation and security. Revolutionary products and services
based upon these technologies will be introduced to the market in
the very near future. AlphaGo may have defeated Chinese Go player
Ke Jie, but the next breakthrough AI
product may well come from China.
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