Innovators Under 35
INNOVATIVE Visionaries
V9. Gang Wang, 34
Alibaba
At the forefront of turning AI into
consumer-ready products.
Artificial
intelligence has reached “a critical point,” says Gang Wang—it’s moved beyond
the lab and is now ready for mass-market consumer products. Wang, who joined
Alibaba’s AI lab in March, is at the forefront of the push to make AI practical
for consumer products, and he’s doing it for one of the world’s most ambitious
companies in the world’s biggest consumer market. He was one of the scientists
behind the Tmall Genie, Alibaba’s first AI-based product, released in July.
Analogous to Amazon’s Echo, the device can make purchases on Alibaba’s shopping
sites and perform other tasks, such as playing music and checking calendars
through voice commands.
“The design of neural
networks needs to be intertwined with real-world applications,” says Wang.
“Only in this way can we create a product that’s useful in a commercial
environment.”
—Yiting Sun
—Yiting Sun
MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
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