Source: Tech – South China Morning PostWang Xiaogang’s first encounter with a thinking machine two decades ago set him on a career path that would turn him into one of China’s foremost experts on artificial intelligence (AI).A masters student in electronic engineering in 2001, Wang was visiting a laboratory at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) when his engineering dean Tang Xiao’ou showed how deep neural networks in computing could teach algorithms to mimic artistic techniques, transforming his photograph into a portrait…Read More