China's AI wizards want to entertain you, cure you, and dominate the world

The Chinese government has a massively ambitious plan to lead in the field of artificial intelligence by 2030. It's investing billions of dollars in a technology park in Beijing dedicated to AI. It wants to shape the standards that will govern the field. And it's fostering the development of impressive AI startups, which raised more money last year than American ones. At MIT Technology Review's annual EmTech Digital conference in San Francisco this week, several Chinese executives spoke about the advances their firms had made in AI.