A.I. is still far from human. Even as technological processes get smarter and cloud computing delves into data collection and analytics, Artificial Intelligence still has a long way to go before it can replicate a human brain, said an executive who oversees Alibaba Cloud's A.I. projects. "As of today, nobody in the A.I. programming world is capable of doing that, even to an entry-level approach," Min Wanli, chief machine intelligence scientist at Alibaba Cloud, told CNBC's Arjun Kharpal. "We have to learn how to coordinate multiple dimensional capability to get there." Min, who oversees artificial intelligence projects at Alibaba Cloud, was speaking at CNBC's three-day East Tech West conference in Nansha district of Guangzhou, China. He enrolled in college at the young age of 14 and has a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Chicago.

A bigger fear with automation is perhaps the loss of human jobs at factories and industries equipped with power technology such as sensors and devices to collect and analyze data. Min said their goal was to make workers as smart as power machines. "I wouldn't call it a job loss, it's a job transformation," Min said. A champion of pattern predictions and data intelligence, Min has used a data machine in the past to predict the winner of a Chinese reality TV show called "I Am Singer." He also helped Hangzhou city planners to optimize traffic lights to reduce congestion. "We are the first ones to really deliver a system which can cut down travel time of an ambulance by more than half," Min said.

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