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Kai-Fu Lee is the Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures that manages a 2 billion dollar dual currency investment fund with a focus on developing the next generation of Chinese high-tech companies. He is the former President of Google China and the founder of what is now called Microsoft Research Asia, an institute that trained many of the AI leaders in China, including CTOs or AI execs at Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba, Lenovo, and Huawei. He was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by TIME Magazine. He is the author of seven best-selling books in Chinese, and most recently the New York Times best seller called AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order.

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Do you think on the autonomous vehicle space, it's possible to solve the problem of full autonomy without significant investment in infrastructure?

I think it's not a yes-no question, but how long does it take question?

You know 15 years 30 years 45 years clearly with infrastructure augmentation where there's road city or whole city planning building a new city I'm sure that will accelerate the day of the L5.

I'm not knowledgeable enough, and it's hard to predict even when we're knowledgeable because a lot of it is speculative.

But in the US, I don't think people would consider building a new city the size of Chicago to make it the AI slash autonomous city.

There are smaller ones being built, I'm aware of that.

But is infrastructure spend really impossible for US or Western countries?

Was that during President Eisenhower or Kennedy?

So maybe historians can study how did President Eisenhower get the resources to build this massive infrastructure that surely gave US a tremendous amount of prosperity over the next decade, if not century.


Speaker 0: Do you think on the autonomous vehicle space, it's possible to solve the problem of full autonomy without significant investment in infrastructure? Well, that's really hard to speculate. I think it's not a yes-no question, but how long does it take question? You know 15 years 30 years 45 years clearly with infrastructure augmentation where there's road city or whole city planning building a new city I'm sure that will accelerate the day of the L5. I'm not knowledgeable enough, and it's hard to predict even when we're knowledgeable because a lot of it is speculative.

But in the US, I don't think people would consider building a new city the size of Chicago to make it the AI slash autonomous city. There are smaller ones being built, I'm aware of that. But is infrastructure spend really impossible for US or Western countries? I don't think so. The US highway system was built.

Was that during President Eisenhower or Kennedy? Eisenhower, yeah. So maybe historians can study how did President Eisenhower get the resources to build this massive infrastructure that surely gave US a tremendous amount of prosperity over the next decade, if not century. You

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