Experts say China is behind the US in AI tools like ChatGPT due to censorship, geopolitical tensions, and the government's growing control of the private sector
The state's hardening censorship and heavier hand have held back its tech industry; so has entrepreneurs' reluctance to invest for the long term.
“Once the open environment is gone, it will be challenging to create such products,” he said. If a decade ago China was the wild, wild East for tech entrepreneurship and innovation, it's a very different country now. https://www.nytimes.com/...
“The development of any significant technological product is inseparable from the system and environment in which it operates...” https://www.nytimes.com/...
“'Why ChatGPT wasn't invented in China?' they asked...They're also asking more fundamental questions...: Have censorship, geopolitical tensions and the government's growing control of the private sector made China less friendly to innovation?” @LiYuan6 https://www.nytimes.com/...
Given the interest in ChatGPT, a fascinating essay by @LiYuan6 about how China led in AI technology but then fumbled because of political controls. Chinese techies joke, “We need to teach machines not only how to speak, but also how not to speak.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
“But the [Chinese] govt has been the biggest barrier to A.I. — its obsession w/ censorship perhaps its heaviest club....a wide range of data is crucial to developing tech like ChatGPT, and that is increasingly harder to come by in a censored ..environment.” https://www.nytimes.co…
If a decade ago China was the wild, wild East for tech entrepreneurship & innovation,it's a very different country now under Xi.ChatGPT serves as both a shock&a revelation:China lags far behind the U.S. in A.I. & gov't control stifles innovation. My latest https://www.nytimes.com…
Why Chatbots like ChatGPT Weren't Invented in China Today, jokes circulate that capture the dark mood among tech people. A popular one: “We need to teach machines not only how to speak, but also how not to speak.” https://www.nytimes.com/...