China looks to wide application of artificial intelligence - China.org.cn

China has great potential in applications of artificial intelligence (AI), a senior official said Sunday. "Chinese researchers and entrepreneurs are among the best in the world, with technological innovations and good earnings in the sector," said Liu Lihua, vice minister of industry and information technology. Researchers with Chinese companies such as iFlytek, Alibaba and Baidu participated in the study of the world's leading AI technologies, said Liu, referring to technologies of reinforcement learning, paying with your face and self-driving trucks. A couple of weeks ago, the "MIT Technology Review" listed the above three and another seven technologies as its 10 breakthrough technologies in 2017. AI research started more than 60 years ago and there have been some major ups and downs.