Academician Yang Tianruo: AI is China's opportunity to overtake on the curve

In an interview, Yang Tianruo, a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and the European Academy of Sciences, judged that China has the potential to surpass the United States in AI, that US technology blockades "cannot hold it back," and that this offers an opportunity to overtake on the curve. He believes embodied intelligence is overestimated, that overall technology has seen no fundamental improvement apart from hardware performance, that robots can currently only perform fixed, repetitive work, and that they are still far from artificial general intelligence. He argues that AI face-swap and voice-cloning fraud should be countered through technology, not merely through individual vigilance.