Opinion | Can China really lead the world in artificial intelligence when it seeks to control thought?
Robert Delaney says China’s State Council has proven it can accomplish great things, but the nation’s ambitions for hi-tech innovation may be undermined by the pursuit of ideological conformity
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No one disputes the potential disruption AI-leveraged applications represent for industries – finance, transport, manufacturing, health care, and the like – generating large amounts of data.
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These companies, McKinsey said, “see that the inputs needed to enable AI to finally live up to expectations – powerful computer hardware, increasingly sophisticated algorithmic models, and a vast and fast-growing inventory of data – are in place. Indeed, internal investment by large corporations dominates: we estimate that this amounted to [US]$18 billion to $27 billion in 2016.”
