Nature Paper Puts An Eye on China's New Generation of AI

Artificial intelligence has become the driving force for a vibrant round of industrial transformations in China and around the world. Many countries and enterprises see the AI revolution as an excellent opportunity to promote strong domestic economic and technological development. Last month, a group of artificial intelligence pioneers from 12 Chinese AI institutions published the perspective paper Towards a New Generation of Artificial Intelligence in China in the respected journal Nature Machine Intelligence. This is the first such survey on the full scope of AI in China. The paper looks at the New Generation Artificial Intelligence (NGAI) Development Plan of China (2015– 2030), which was published in 2017 as a blueprint for the rapid construction of a complete Chinese AI ecosystem. Many of the new perspective paper's authors participated in different stages of the NGAI Plan, which outlines national strategies for science and technology as well as education, and identifies a range of related challenges to be overcome.