China will introduce rules to govern the use of artificial intelligence (AI) across a swath of industries, moving to regulate emergent spheres as ChatGPT fever sweeps the world’s No. 2 economy.
“We have to see that ChatGPT is doing very well,” Wang said at Friday’s briefing. “Following the emergence of a new technology, including AI, our country will introduce relevant measures in an ethical manner.”
The field of AI is among several in which the US and China are racing for the lead, part of a broader struggle for technology and geopolitical supremacy. Some experts believe the Asian power has the edge in terms of the sheer amounts of data required to train AI platforms. A parallel race among global tech giants has intensified since ChatGPT took the Internet by storm. Microsoft Corp., which owns a stake in OpenAI,how the technology could supplement its Bing search engine. Not to be outdone, Google demonstrated a novel service called Bard that would incorporate similar features.
It’s unclear, however, how Beijing views private sector involvement in the sensitive field, particularly given a deep-seated suspicion of increasingly powerful internet firms that resulted in crackdowns on sector leaders from Ant Group Co. to Alibaba and Didi Global Inc. to its longer-term ability to displace humans at work.The regulatory measures “will come after we understand the technology,” he said.
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