The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has
established the PolyU Academy for Artificial Intelligence (PAAI) to tackle the
pressing challenges in AI development and to explore sustainable AI
technologies for society and industries. PAAI Inauguration and International
Forum on AI was organized by PAAI and FCMS held on 10th Dec 2025. Before
the inauguration, our president Prof. Jin-Guang Teng, Prof. Sun Dong, (Secretary
for Innovation, Technology and Industry), guests and PolyU colleagues took a group
photo in entry of the Chiang Chen Studio Theatre.
I took a photo with Chairman of HKCTC Prof. Wing-tak
Wong (Deputy President and Provost of PolyU). I was member of Panel on Manpower
Development, Hong Kong Council for Testing and Certification (HKCTC).
Also took a photo with Prof. Qiang YANG (Director of
PAAI).
Our department head Prof. Qing LI and Prof. WANG
Zuankai (Associate Vice President (Research)) and I took a photo for memory. Prof.
WANG was come from CityU MBE that we were same department of MEEM before
separated into SEEM and MBE.
We took photos to celebrate Prof. WONG Kam-fai’s
election as a Legislative Council member.
During the break, I took a photo with Mr. Duncan CHIU
(Legco member), Prof. YANG Hongxia (Executive Director of PAAI, Associate Dean
(Global Engagement) of FCMS) and Prof. WONG Kam-fai.
In the beginning, Prof. Jin-Guang Teng (President,
PolyU) gave opening remarks. He mentioned our vision and mission.
Then he briefed PolyU strategic goals for positioning
and long-term development. We focus on Artificial Intelligence and Data
Analytics (AIDA) education, a course that was launched as a compulsory course
for all new undergraduate students in September 2022.
Finally, Prof. Teng introduced the establishment of
PAAI and its two leaders.
Prof. Sun Dong, (Secretary for Innovation, Technology
and Industry) gave a guest speech.
After that all guests took a group photo.
Prof. Qiang YANG (Director of PAAI) was the first
speaker and his topic entitled “The AI Revolution: Challenges and Opportunities”.
Firstly, he discussed AI facing great challenges.
He then cited a recent paper in an artificial
intelligence journal that pointed out the conflict between privacy and inferencing
effectiveness.
Privacy in LLM training and inference, as well as
public data nearly used up were bottlenecks. One of solutions was Federate
Transfer Learning in which included PreTraining plus Transfer Learning and Federate
Learning.
Finally, he pointed out problem to intentionally
unlearn unwanted knowledge. AI model watermarks were proposed to trace the
sources of models. Lastly, Prof. YANG discussed the application of cases.
Prof. YANG Hongxia (Executive Director of PAAI) was
the second speaker and her topic named “Co-Generative AI: Powering the Last
Mile of GenAI”. First, she introduced herself as coming from ByteDance and
Alibaba Group.
Then she discussed the gap of current GenAI between
domain experts and AI experts.
After that Prof. YANG introduced two technical highlights
and they were “Ultra-Low-Resource Local Models” and “Efficient Model Fusion”;
as well as, Application highlights included “Top-tier Cancer GenAI” and “Co-GenAI
Platform”.
Lastly, she demonstrated the Co-GenAI Platform which
was a leading platform that empowers communities to advance AI through blockchain-based
collaboration and transparent governance, enabling globally collaborative
scientific foundation models.
The International Forum on AI 2025 was held in afternoon.
Prof. CHEN Changwen (Interim Dean of FCMS), Dr. Jeff Tang, Dr. Raymond Pang,
Dr. Walter Fung and I took a photo for memory.
Inside the hall, Dr. Richard Lui also joined us.
The first keynote speaker was Prof. Toby WALSH (Fellow
of the Australian Academy of Science, AAAI Fellow, University of New South
Wales) and his topic was “AI and Creativity: the final frontier?”. Firstly, he
quoted Ada Lovelace (1843) as first programmer that “The Analytical Engine has
no pretensions to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it
to perform.” And he also discussed Tuning’s paper in 1950.
After that he employed Margaret Boden definition of
Creativity in three key factors and they were “New, Surprising and Valuable”.
Then he discussed the Art and Maths.
Finally, Prof. Toby WALSH then concluded machines are increasingly
being involved in creative acts. Like maths and science, machines can be
creative as they can come up with ideas or artefacts that are new, surprising
and valuable.
Prof. CHEN Changwen (Interim Dean of FCMS) introduced
the second keynote speaker Dr. Zhengyou ZHANG who is Chief Scientist of
Tencent, Director of Tencent Robotics X and ACM/IEEE Fellow.
Dr. Zhengyou ZHANG’s topic named “Embodied AI:
Technology Trends and Research Progress”. His talk included “Technology Trends”,
“Human Cognition”, “Embodied AI”, “A2G Theory & SLAP Paradigm”, “TAIROS
Embodies AI Platform” and “Perspectives”.
Then he discussed six technology trends
below.
Trend 1 – Evolution of Computing Platform
Trend 2 – HCI Technology Democratization
Trend 3 – Evolution of Sensing Technology
Trend 4 – Merging of Physical & Digital
Worlds
Trend 5 – Intelligentization
Trend 6 – (Large-scale AI System): Search -> GenAI
After that he said “Human is still the strongest agent”
and three main features of AI agent that were Memory Continuity, Cognitive Holography
and Endogenous Evolution. Dr. ZHANG also identified the boundary of non-embodied
and embodied AI.
Finally, he used the theory proposed by Prof. Daniel
Kahneman in his book “Thinking, Fast and Slow” to compare embodied artificial
intelligence and human intelligence. System 1 is like sensing and actin, while
System 2 is similar to planning.
The third keynote speaker was Prof. Randy GOEBEL (Fellow
and co-founder of the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii), University
of Alberta) and his topic entitled “Challenges for the Query/Update/Explanation
Paradigm of Neurosymbolic Foundation Models”.
His topic outlined a spectrum of neurosymboic
foundation models and QUE for a sample of neurosymbolic models.
The last speaker was Prof. Jie TANG (Department of Computer Science and Technology and Director of Foundation Model Research Center, Tsinghua University). Unfortunately, we had to leave early due to an appointment and missed the talk.
Reference
PAAI - https://www.polyu.edu.hk/paai/
FCMS, PolyU - https://www.polyu.edu.hk/fcms/
COMP, PolyU - https://www.polyu.edu.hk/comp/
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