Elon Musk speaks through video throughout the opening ceremony of 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China, on July 6, 2023.
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Elon Musk believes China is in a powerful place in relation to the event of synthetic intelligence and that the nation might be “nice at something it places its thoughts to.”
In remarks delivered by video on Thursday to the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, which is being held in Shanghai, the Tesla CEO didn’t maintain again when it got here to praising sure points of the world’s second-largest economic system.
“I feel there is a great variety of very sensible, very gifted individuals in China,” he stated. “I’ve all the time been an incredible admirer of the sheer quantity of expertise and drive that exists in China.”
“So I feel, actually, China’s going to be nice at something it places its thoughts to,” Musk added.
“So that features, you realize, many various sectors, sectors of the economic system but additionally synthetic intelligence. So, I feel China may have very sturdy AI functionality — [that] is my prediction.”
Musk has vital enterprise pursuits in China. Tesla sells its electrical vehicles there and runs a serious manufacturing unit in Shanghai. In May, he met with China’s Foreign Minister, Qin Gang.
In the previous, he has praised Chinese automakers, describing them as “best on the planet.” In 2020 he stated “China rocks, for my part.”
Musk’s most up-to-date feedback come in opposition to a backdrop of tensions between the U.S. and China over know-how.
In 2022, Washington enacted sweeping export restrictions on key chips and semiconductor gear to China. The transfer might hobble’s Beijing’s attempts to spice up its home trade in a important know-how. But industry analysts believe that Chinese chip makers will nonetheless develop their very own superior semiconductors regardless of Washington’s makes an attempt to chop the nation off.
Interest in AI and its doubtlessly transformative results on society has heightened in latest occasions. The previous 12 months has seen chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT garner large quantities of publicity, whereas discussions about whether or not AI poses a wider risk to humanity have additionally taken place.
—CNBC’s Arjun Kharpal contributed to this report