Listen "#6 Speech Pitch: Pascale Fung"
Episode Synopsis
In this episode, we have Professor Pascale Fung with us. Pascale is the Chair Professor at the Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST), a visiting professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, and the Director of HKUST Centre for AI Research (CAiRE). Apart from her highly-achieved academic roles, she is also very active in the industry.
In our conversation, Pascale generously shared her experiences and knowledge regarding the relationship between AI and art, why and how we need to work on empathetic machines, the uncanny valley effect in conversational agents, global collaboration on ethical AI, as well as her personal role models and interesting stories and enlightening insights about science communication.
In our conversation, Pascale generously shared her experiences and knowledge regarding the relationship between AI and art, why and how we need to work on empathetic machines, the uncanny valley effect in conversational agents, global collaboration on ethical AI, as well as her personal role models and interesting stories and enlightening insights about science communication.
More episodes of the podcast Speech Pitch
Trailer: Mentoring Event by ISCA-SAC
04/08/2025
Trailer: Students meet Experts by ISCA SAC
04/08/2025
# 16 Georgia Maniati
01/06/2025
#13 Titouan Parcollet
01/12/2024
#12 Florian Eyben
01/10/2024
ZARZA We are Zarza, the prestigious firm behind major projects in information technology.