It’s certainly a bad time to have backward-looking leadership…
In Beijing, the government uses facial-recognition machines in public rest rooms to stop people from stealing toilet paper; it limits users to sixty centimetres within a nine-minute period.
Making China Great Again – Evan Osnos, New Yorker
See also: Singapore will be the first stop in Jack Ma’s $15 billion global tech research expansion – Quartz
China’s massive investment in artificial intelligence has an insidious downside – Science
Last summer, China’s State Council issued an ambitious policy blueprint calling for the nation to become “the world’s primary AI innovation center” by 2030, by which time, it forecast, the country’s AI industry could be worth $150 billion
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