Vivian Wang

I think that's a really hard question to answer because China and the United States are actually running very different races with different goals and different metrics of success.

And I think China is very confident that along its chosen path, it is doing very well.

From the beginning, China's strategy when it comes to AI has been putting it in people's hands, putting it in factories, putting it everywhere throughout the economy.

It's this focus on real world applications.

And that's really different from the way that I think Silicon Valley and a lot of American policymakers talk about AI, which is generally revolving around AGI, right?

This idea that AI is building towards this super powerful, super human intelligence.

Right.

Whereas China and Chinese policymakers have always kind of talked about AI as this way towards making the economy run better.

So if you just walk around on the street in China, you are going to encounter different manifestations of AI everywhere.

There are driverless cars in a ton of Chinese cities.

There are robots everywhere from restaurants to just patrolling the streets to definitely, of course, in factories.

And people have found ways to use it in places that we might never have imagined.

I recently talked to a few different parents who have thought of really creative ways to use AI in their children's educations.

One mom had bought this AI contraption that was basically a translation mask that she would wear to help her kids practice speaking English.

A translation mask?

Yeah, it really looks like the mask that Bane wears in the Batman movies.

And the way it works is that she would speak into it in Chinese, and then what would come out was a version of her voice but speaking English.

Wow.

And so she would just wear it around the house to talk to her kids.

Yeah, I think that what's been really striking to me about observing just the way that people in China are talking about and thinking about AI is people are really excited about it.