Keynote Session 6 — Fengmin Gong

Abstract

Data sci­ence and AI are at the core of the “fourth indus­tri­al res­o­lu­tion”. While the sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy com­mu­ni­ty are dili­gent­ly push­ing the fron­tier for the ben­e­fits of human­i­ty, some fear the neg­a­tive impact of the same. The crust of the mat­ter is that, Data sci­ence and AI are pow­er­ful tools with huge poten­tial, HOW we har­ness this pow­er is the most crit­i­cal fac­tor to suc­cess or dis­as­ter. In this talk, I will share three main guid­ing prin­ci­ples — impact, inno­va­tion, and respon­si­bil­i­ty, which should help us to do the right things the right way in apply­ing AI. DiDi has been at the fore­front in trans­form­ing trans­porta­tion through AI. To illus­trate these prin­ci­ples, I will use some exam­ples in rein­force­ment learn­ing for opti­miza­tion, NLP for safe rides, and use-case dri­ven sim­u­la­tion for AV.