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Why censorship is the big ‘if’ about China’s AI future
The major pitfall for a ChatGPT with Chinese characteristics are the strict political rules for sticking to the party line.
Stephen RoachAsia watcherIn his now-classic 2018 book, AI Superpowers, Kai-Fu Lee threw down the gauntlet in arguing that China poses a growing technological threat to the US.
When Lee gave a guest lecture to my “Next China” class at Yale in late 2019, my students were enthralled by his provocative case: America was about to lose its first-mover advantage in discovery (the expertise of AI’s algorithms) to China’s advantage in implementation (big-data-driven applications).
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