Keyu Jin

And it's a very different approach to innovation.

The Chinese companies focus on solutions, problem solving.

Again, that comes back to the education system, right?

You're giving a problem.

I'm going to find the answer.

The Chinese students can do it.

You want them to

write their own question, they can't do it, right?

I'm exaggerating a little bit, but it's a little like that, right?

They see a problem they're going to go after and they're going to find the best solution.

And that's really, really useful, right?

Because we don't need, or developing countries especially, don't need these frontier technologies that they can't use.

And China currently has this AI Plus program, which is about pushing AI into every single plausible sector with the help of the state.

So adoption, diffusion is very important.

Why China can't do breakthroughs or can't do zero to one technologies, I think at the root of it, and there are some deeper, we talked about the proximate reasons, the short, flat, fast, for instance, right?

You don't want to spend too much time on investigating something that you don't even know if it's

commercially viable so basic research is still weaker than in the u.s universities but also this kind of intrinsic motivation it's very different right in china it's driven by extrinsic motivation you are rewarded by you know compensation financial compensation all these kind of extrinsic motivation is what drives you but intrinsic motivation pursuit of knowledge for knowledge sake um

That was deep in the Confucius philosophies, but of course, poverty has changed all that.

The profound commitment to scholarship, to research, which we know is very much true in the U.S.

universities, it's starting, but it's not there.