China will be at forefront of AI, Alphabet’s Sundar Pichai says

The scale of AI work in China ‘is just astounding to see’, Pichai said at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference in San Francisco. — Bloomberg

Alphabet Inc chief executive officer Sundar Pichai said he expects China to be “at the forefront” of artificial intelligence, and said it’s important for the US to collaborate with the Asian nation on both regulation and innovation.

The scale of AI work in China “is just astounding to see”, Pichai said at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference in San Francisco, in an on-stage interview by Bloomberg’s Emily Chang. “In some ways, China is going to be at the forefront of AI and that’s a given.”