https://www.scmp.com/rss/514000/feed Marianne Lu is an undergraduate studying International Relations at Stanford University. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com The Communist Party’s stringent censorship regime has often been cited as a hindrance to China’s ambitions of global artificial intelligence (AI) leadership. Such assessments, however, are overblown. The argument goes that tight party controls over the information space would hinder the development and roll-out of large language models (LLMs): advanced AI models designed for natural language processing. Notably, it is difficult to control the output of these models, and relatively simple to... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3246922/risk-censorship-chinas-ai-leadership-ambitions-overblown?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3246922/risk-censorship-chinas-ai-leadership-ambitions-overblown?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 04 Jan 2024 01:30:09 +0000 The Chips and Science Act, a bipartisan bill signed into law in August, was hailed as a “Sputnik moment” for America and a turning point in the global semiconductor race. Injecting billions of dollars into the domestic chip industry, it seemed to mark a new chapter of “running faster” than China, instead of “slowing it down”. But Washington’s recent actions tell a different story: the Biden administration is not only still focused on crippling China’s chip-making abilities, but also taking... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/united-states/article/3197238/us-chip-ban-america-must-beware-backing-china-corner?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/united-states/article/3197238/us-chip-ban-america-must-beware-backing-china-corner?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 27 Oct 2022 19:30:12 +0000