AI to drive China’s new wave of tech revolution, industrial transformation, People’s Daily says

Name: Is China’s technology falling behind in the race for its own ChatGPT?
Uploaded: 2023-06-26T16:00:21.000Z
Duration: 8 min 54 s
Description: Is China’s technology falling behind in the race for its own ChatGPT?

People’s Daily, the mouthpiece newspaper of the ruling Communist Party, vows to intensify efforts to unleash the potential of artificial general intelligence

Daily office work, biopharmaceuticals, remote sensing and meteorology can benefit from artificial intelligence, the newspaper adds

2-MIN READ2-MIN

Professional services firm PwC said earlier that China will benefit the most from artificial intelligence, with the technology set to contribute to a 26 per cent increase in its gross domestic product by 2030. Photo: AP

Mia Nurmamat

Published: 12:00am, 27 Jun 2023

China has hailed the role of artificial general intelligence in transforming the country’s industries and refuelling its economy, despite growing overseas calls for international collaboration on regulation.

In a second commentary in the past two weeks, the People’s Daily, the mouthpiece newspaper of the ruling Communist Party, vowed to intensify efforts to unleash the potential of artificial intelligence (AI).

“[Artificial general intelligence] will become an important driving force in the new wave of technological revolution and industrial transformation, with a major impact on people’s production and life,” according to the commentary published on Monday.

It listed areas that China could benefit from artificial intelligence, including daily office work, biopharmaceuticals, remote sensing and meteorology.

08:54

Is China’s technology falling behind in the race for its own ChatGPT?

After the Microsoft-backed OpenAI released ChatGPT in November, Beijing has been seen as pinning its hopes on the development of AI to bolster industrial productivity and fuel the world’s second-largest economy that is still haunted by the scarring effects of the coronavirus, slowing exports and an intensified rivalry with the United States.

The Politburo, the prime decision-making body headed by President Xi Jinping, said in late April that China “should attach importance to the development of artificial general intelligence, create an innovative ecology and pay attention to risk prevention”.

In a separate report released by a think tank under state-backed Xinhua News Agency, the introduction of ChatGPT is believed to have fuelled China’s even quicker engagement in AI and accelerated its catch-up with the US on the “ever-heating” technology track.