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Machine Intelligence is increasing every year, but still Artificial Intelligence (AI) is about to live up to the reputation or hype that is created abut it by the technology companies in the world. AI still has a long way to go before behaving like a human intelligence but we will certainly see the evolution of AI in 2022. AI can excel at specific tasks but it struggles to do more than the specified tasks. It is better at doing programmed tasks than taking intelligent decisions or situational decisions. Edward Grefenstette, a Research Scientist at Meta AI said, "AI algorithms are good at approaching individual tasks, or tasks that include a small degree of variability. However, the real world encompasses significant potential for change, a dynamic which we are bad at capturing within our training algorithms, yielding brittle intelligence."

In 1998, China was hardly a technological rival to the US. With only 7 million internet users, fewer than 26 million personal computers, and an ecommerce industry that generated a paltry $42 million the following year, it was considered a laggard compared with many other countries. But Microsoft, then the world's richest and most powerful tech company, recognized the potential. That year, then-CEO Bill Gates created Microsoft Research China, an engineering outpost in Beijing to tap into a pool of talent and establish ties to the country's tech scene. In the following years, Microsoft launched internet operations in China when other US tech companies were stymied.