China Daily — Xi’s bookshelf illustrates goal of developing AI powerhouse

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Two books on President Xi Jinping's shelf drew public attention from both home and abroad immediately after they were seen in the video of Xi's New Year speech. The two books were about artificial intelligence－The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World by Pedro Domingos and Brett King's Augmented: Life in the Smart Lane. The Master Algorithm, published in 2015, describes how machine learning is remaking business, politics, science and war. Augmented describes how society will be impacted by technologies that will change the world more in the next 20 years than it has been changed in the past 250 years.... Ecns Xi's bookshelf illustrates goal of developing AI powerhouse China Daily

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Mike Norman considers the following as important: AI, China, Chinese economic policy, Innovation, Xi Jinping

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