It’s really instructive to see how China is applying AI in pragmatic and utilitarian ways while US companies are chasing the whole AGI unicorn. I also suspect there’s a big difference stemming from the fact that China has a massive industrial base which create a lot of niches for automation that simply don’t exist in the US. So, there’s much more focus on robotics, infrastructure monitoring, factory work, and so on.

We had the Halo Elites, and now 25 years on we’re supposed to be impressed by a robot not falling over.