The Seminar
named “AI and E-Commerce: Ethical Conflicts《人工智能與電子商貿:倫理對弈》” was co-organized by Hong Kong Top 10
e-Commerce Club (HKTTECC) and Research Centre for Sustainable Hong Kong (CSHK),
CityU on 10th April 2019. I
met HKSQ member Mr. Derek Kung (Foundering member, HKTTECC) and took photo for
memory.
I also took a
photo with Dr. Jason Chan. We are exco member of CityU Eminence Society.
In the
beginning, Prof. Linda Chelan Li (Director, CSHK, CityU) gave welcome speech. She
briefed the idea of setup CSHK that aimed to apply more collective efforts to
systematically address the challenges of socio-economic-environmental
sustainability for the betterment of Hong Kong and the Region.
Ms. Ip
(Chairlady of HKTTECC) gave opening speech and thanked all guest speakers and
supporting organizations.
Group photo
taken.
The first
speaker was Ms. Gilly Wong (Chief Executive, Consumer Council) and her topic
named “AI and E-Commerce: Ethical Conflicts”. Firstly, she selected two
definition of AI that one from Marvin Minsky (AI pioneer) and the other from
Yves Demazean (CNRS, France). She found
that two words were important and they were Intelligence and Human
Behavior.
Ms. Gilly Wong
said that a balance of innovation with regulations, in a world of uncertain /
un-precedent speed and scale of transition. This balance aimed to reduce the
risk and increase the opportunity in four areas including Government, Business,
Science and Public.
Then she briefed HK Government invested $10billion to establish two innovative clusters included Health@InnoHK and AIR@InnoHK. It also included to joinly develop a demonstration zone for innovation in Greater Bay Area.
After that Ms.
Gilly Wong discussed the topic on the view of consumer rights on AI. She questioned “Can an average consumer feel
the Change? Like the change? Adapt to the Change?” And then she mentioned 8
consumer rights below.
1.
The
right to satisfaction of basic needs
2.
The
right to safety
3.
The
right to be informed
4.
The
right to choose
5.
The
right to be heard
6.
The right to redress
7.
The
right to consumer education
8.
The
right to a healthy and sustainable environment
During
discussed the right to choose, “Do AI increase or reduce consumer choice?” Ms.
Wong said. Mr. Derek Kung (Foundering
member, HKTTECC) said AI algorithm only showed things what you like. Later then
your choice was limited. Then Ms. Wong
asked how to sustain the competition in a fair marketplace especially when SMEs
face even more acute shortage of skilled IT talents, access to data and
capital? Because it is almost 90% share
of economy is from SMEs in Hong Kong.
Privacy is another issue.
After that Ms.
Gilly Wong briefed the OECD guidelines for AI and the Ethics guidelines for
trustworthy AI. OECD recommendations identify
five principles for responsible stewardship of trustworthy AI, namely:
inclusive and sustainable growth and well-being, human-centred values and
fairness, transparency and explainability, robustness and safety, and
accountability.
EU 4 ethical
principles are:
1.
Respect
for human
2.
Autonomy
3.
Prevention
of harm
4.
Fairness
and Explicability
EU 7 Key
requirements are:
1.
Human
agency and oversight
2.
Technical
robustness and safety
3.
Privacy and
data governance
4.
Transparency
5.
Diversity, non-discrimination and fairness
6.
Environmental and societal well-being
7.
Accountability
Finally, Ms. Wong quoted Garry Kasparov (Former World Chess Champion)
statement as conclusion that “Powerful autonomous machines must reflect human
morality and that the wealth, productivity, and safety generated by AI must be
shared across the society”.
The second speaker was Mr. Kenny Lai (Solution Architect, Alibaba Cloud)
and his topic entitled “Big Data Analytics on Cloud”. Firstly, he overviewed Alibaba Cloud business
which only 4% in market share in the world. (Amazon over 50% !)
Then Mr. Lai briefed the application of AI and Big Data including
Intelligent E-commerce, Alime, Tmall Genie, City Brain and Autonomous
Driving. He also mentioned their
breakthrough of the technology barrier of 5K Nodes in Aug 2013. He explained how much data can a 5K cluster
process that he used Yahoo as example that they achieved 4K Nodes upto 16PB of
raw disk.
Finally, Mr. Kenny Lai explained the demographic Data Analytics on Cloud
included three key stages below:
1. Collect –
Check if Personally Identifying Information (PII) is collected, de-identify the
data before processing on cloud
2. Process –
Ensure Data upload to cloud contain non-identifiable data. If the data is
collected on Cloud, use different technique (like tokenization one way hash,
grouping) to make it not identifiable
3. Model – The Result
machine learning model contain the generalized representation of the trend or
features. It can be deployed
online/offline to provide classification, reasoning or other means without
expose the individual private data.
The third speaker was Dr. Jason Chan (Head of IT, PolyU CPCE; Exco
member of CityU Eminence Society) and his topic about Big Data Analytics and AI.
Firstly, he
demonstrated a video about his study on CE election data analytics in social
media.
He said Hong
Kong population and market were small for big data. However, data could be
separated into micro data that one person could have 200 attributes and then
generated huge data. Big data has one more dimension - “TIME”.
And then he
demonstrated another interview about AI application in “科技Band房”.
Dr. Jason Chan
said if you could like to participate into AI or alive under AI Era, you had
better study human-human contract things such as psychology and counselling.
At the end, he
concluded “Everything is connected.” The separated six circle could combined to
form the eye in the first slide of this presentation.
The last part
Q&A was facilitated by Mr. Ho-mum Chan (Associate Professor, CityU). They discussed privacy and Mr. Ho-mum Chan
used mathematics as example that we knew X+Y=3 from one source. X and Y is unknown and under protected. However, if we got the equation X-Y=1 from
another source. X and Y is no longer shielded. Finally, the balance of risk and society
efficiency was discussed. They concluded
AI / Mobile Apps were tools, professional should take the accountability.
Reference:
CityU
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