Tsinghua AI Association of International Students (TAIS) news roundup 27 October
By 2025, China’s technology ecosystem will have matured and be on par with Silicon Valley in terms of dynamism, innovation, and competitiveness. That dynamism will increasingly take the form of industrial applications of information technology, as the locus of Chinese innovation shifts from the consumer internet to the industrial internet. This is according to a new forecast report by MacroPolo, the in-house think tank of the Paulson Institute. Source: MacroPolo
The largest single data center in Asia, located in Datong, North China’s Shanxi province, went into operation on Sunday, marking China’s latest achievement in information technology. The center, built by Chindata Group, supports artificial intelligence-based computing power basic services. Source: China Daily
A new AI system that detects flares erupting from stars could help astronomers find habitable planets, according to the tool’s inventors. The neural network detects the light patterns of a stellar flare — which can incinerate the atmospheres of planets forming nearby. The frequency and location of the flares can therefore indicate the best places to search for habitable planets. Source: TNW
Don’t fear AI. It will lead to long-term job growth. While Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies driven by AI will continue to fundamentally change the world and the way we work and live, AI may not lead to massive unemployment. Instead, AI technology will create more jobs than it automates. Source: World Economic Forum
China’s internet watchdog has launched a crackdown on popular local mobile browsers, in an attempt to better control what it describes as information “chaos”, which has raised “strong concerns” among the country’s netizens. While encouraging new technologies such as AI and facial recognition for law and order purposes, it has also cracked down on private enterprises for the over-collection of personal data for commercial usage. Source: South China Morning Post
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