JD Finance to push AI application with data discovery contest

International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence 2017 Awards Committee Chair Yang Qiang made a speech at the JDDiscovery conference in Beijing on Nov 6, 2017. JD Finance, the finance arm of China's B2C e-commerce giant JD.com, and leading venture capital firm Sequoia Capital jointly launched a contest on Monday to speed up artificial intelligence application in the finance sector. Shen Nanpeng, also known as Neil Shen， global executive partner of Sequoia Capital, said that finance sector, a highly digitalized sector, could be a very suitable scenario for AI application. "We have to be very careful in selecting which sectors are easier for AI to be applied as not all industries would see successful AI applications," said International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence 2017 Awards Committee Chair Yang Qiang, in a keynote speech delivered on the JDDiscovery conference before the launch of the contest.