In China, artificial intelligence isn’t the future. It’s already here

This is just propaganda for the tech oligarchs so they get a blank check to do whatever they want.

We had the Halo Elites, and now 25 years on we’re supposed to be impressed by a robot not falling over.

It’s really instructive to see how China is applying AI in pragmatic and utilitarian ways while US companies are chasing the whole AGI unicorn. I also suspect there’s a big difference stemming from the fact that China has a massive industrial base which create a lot of niches for automation that simply don’t exist in the US. So, there’s much more focus on robotics, infrastructure monitoring, factory work, and so on.