Alibaba chairman Joe Tsai questions AI’s limits, casts doubt on humanoid robots
Speaking at Alibaba’s Jumpstarter event, the entrepreneur said much of what humans value is not captured in training data
“How do you define ‘smarter than human beings’?” Tsai asked the audience, noting that while AI can handle maths and coding much faster than human brains, it lacks the emotional intelligence, or emotional quotient (EQ), and compassion that define human interactions.
“All the positive encounters that you have with people that you love, people that you really enjoy spending time with, that judgment, that data, how does the machine capture that data in order to train AI to replicate the positive energy?”
Tsai cited his experience in educating his children about interacting with others, making friends and expressing emotions in an appropriate way. None of this, he said, is captured in training data.
“So without training data from the parents, I am not sure how we train the machine to make them ‘smart humans’ or ‘smarter than human beings’ with EQ and compassion,” Tsai said.
