What China can teach the U.S. about Artificial Intelligence

This process, which is far more challenging than most researchers acknowledge, has driven the market capitalization of many Chinese tech companies far beyond that of the American peers they were once accused of "copying." Visionary research will always be important to A.I., which means that China still has much to learn from the United States. But as practical implementation increasingly becomes the name of the game, the United States now has much to learn from China, too. Analysts in the West often acknowledge the areas in which China has an advantage in A.I., but they tend to misunderstand the nature of China's strength in each one. With regard to China's abundant data, analysts often point to the sheer size of China's population (which owns 1.1 billion mobile internet devices) and claim that lax privacy laws allow a free-for-all with user data.