Chinese Billionaire Wants to Build AI Smarter Than Humans
KOMPAS.com - One of China's billionaires who made his fortune from the gaming industry, Chen Tianqiao, has invested more than US$2 billion (approximately Rp 35 trillion) to develop artificial intelligence (AI) technology.
However, the AI developed by Chen is not ordinary generative AI. He champions a concept called "Discoverative AI".
According to a Bloomberg report, Discoverative AI is an AI technology that combines long-term memory, causal reasoning, and more advanced predictive modeling capabilities compared to current generative AI.
Chen believes this technology can surpass the capabilities of current popular large language model (LLM)-based AI.
In fact, Discoverative AI is said to be the foundation for his vision of building a "smarter-than-human" AI system.
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Nevertheless, Chen clarified that this does not mean AI will replace humans in jobs that they have been doing well.
In his official LinkedIn post, he explained that the main goal of this technology is to help humans solve problems that remain unresolved due to an overly large search space.
"If AI can help us explore that space, generate new hypotheses, and reason about various possibilities, then AI can actually expand human discovery, not replace human work," Chen wrote.
Chen's ambition in AI is not new. Previously, he had allocated approximately US$1 billion (around Rp 17 trillion) for human brain research and brain-computer interface (BCI) technology.
Now, his focus has expanded to developing Discoverative AI, which he says can accelerate various scientific discoveries.
Building Own Computing Facilities
Image: Chen Tianqiao, Chinese conglomerate who founded online gaming company Shanda.
Chen Tianqiao, Chinese conglomerate who founded online gaming company Shanda. (LinkedIn)
To support this Discoverative AI project, Chen plans to build a pilot computing facility with a capacity of several megawatts on several of his land holdings in North America.
Chen is known to own approximately 700,000 acres (about 283,000 hectares) of forest land in Oregon, USA, and Ontario, Canada.
The land is planned to help ensure a stable and environmentally friendly energy supply for his AI computing center.
One option being studied is the use of geothermal energy.
