講題：AI/GenAI Technology Trend, Impacts and Opportunities

講者：廖如圭，智融美洲創投 iD Ventures America 合夥人

時間：2024.4.16 (二) 14:00-16:00

地點：人工智慧研究中心（管理大樓11樓）

線上直播： https://reurl.cc/bV48ml

講者介紹：

Roger Liao, a seasoned executive with over 30 years of experience traversing the dynamic landscapes of technology, entrepreneurship, and venture capital investment, has navigated a remarkable career path. 
Beginning as an engineer in Taiwan and Silicon Valley, Roger successfully transitioned himself into a serial entrepreneur before becoming a venture capitalist. He founded three technology companies in distinct areas: hardware design and manufacturing, systems and brands, and mixed-signal semiconductor chips. These ventures cater to B2B, B2C and B2G markets. As a Partner of iD Ventures which manages a $260 million fund for early-stage investments spanning North America and Asia Pacific, he had collaborated closely with entrepreneurs to help startups tackle challenges and grow throughout the investment cycle. The fund has quite a few successful IPOs. In 2017, Roger returned to Taiwan to lead the first national-level startup accelerator program and has since lived in Taipei. He has been a software advocate, and his technological interests have recently shifted towards AI, particularly GenAI.
Roger holds a Master of Engineering degree in Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, and a BSEE degree from National Taiwan University.

演講大綱：

In 2016, AlphaGo's resounding victory over the world Go champion sparked a surge in AI investment. Six years later the advent of LLMs/GenAI, exemplified by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, stunned the world again, reaching a record 100 million users in just two months. Now, leading industry figures predict when AGI will arrive, with ethical concerns surrounding its development, such as misuse, intellectual property, and misinformation, plus likely jobs losing. The speaker will share his view on this from what he has learnt in the past. Moreover, what is its impact on each sector of the industry and the individuals? The high-tech industry has shifted from FAAMG to Mt. MANTAG AIOS. Is this a hype? GenAI in fact is an enabler of AI and it makes the impossible possible. What applications that industry is focus on? What’s the trend? Among others, Edge AI, Robotic Process Automation (RPC), and even no-code/low-code have constantly been mentioned for a long time but only until now they become a highly achievable reality. New computer/cloud architecture and extremely low power consumption solutions seem to be a necessity. As a venture capitalist, the speaker has been “soul-searching” trying to answer himself on questions such as, what kind of GenAI startups he would invest? With is, the recent Venture Capital (VC) investments in GenAI startups and their future interests will be covered. He will also take you to peep at current GenAI-related business as examples when possible. In addition, while Transformer-based LLMs have revolutionized the field over RNNs, there are still limitations to address. What’s the possible technological advancement which could propel the industry forward to the next level? This is an open question for everyone to consider. The opportunities may then follow.

主辦單位：人工智慧研究中心、智慧運算學院

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