All Hail the Robot Overlords… Or Not? Beijing’s AI Ambition Meets ChatGPT
In a bizarre twist of techno-events, the corridors of the Chinese government might just be echoing with murmurs of “I, for one, welcome our new AI overlord — ChatGPT”. Or maybe not. But with how ChatGPT has been spinning yarns and winning hearts, China’s ambitious aim of having the AI crown by 2030 might need a bit of sanitizing. The US-based OpenAI’s chatbot darling was launched in 2022, but it’s only in 2023 that it decided to become a social butterfly, spinning its web across the Chinese online spaces.
Key Article Highlights:
- ChatGPT, the beloved child of OpenAI, has been making waves in the Chinese online community much to the surprise of both users and government alike.
- Although it was officially out of the oven in late 2022, ChatGPT just couldn’t hold back any longer and in 2023, it decided to break the internet or, at least, make the bamboo curtain shake a bit.
- As a result, the Chinese government’s ambitious goal of being the AI world champ by 2030 might be a score harder to achieve than they initially thought. After all, how do you outsmart a tool that’s already shown to be so good at checkmating humanity on the digital chessboard?<\li>
Final Thoughts:
As much as this could be a plot for the next big Spielberg movie (oh wait, did someone just say ‘AI: Artificial Intelligence 2.0’? ), it also brings up an important question — what happens when you set out to be ‘the king of the world’ and someone else decides to play queen? Whether it’s China’s bid for AI world domination or OpenAI’s ChatGPT doing its best ‘the-world-is-not-enough’ gig, one thing’s for sure: There’s no business like AI business in China. Stay tuned for the next chapter as we watch how this fascinating chess game unfolds!
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