China’s Techno-Utilitarian Experiments with Artificial Intelligence

Posted on March 16, 2019July 16, 2019 by Dev Lewis

Any article talking about China’s journey with Artificial Intelligence (AI) has to begin with the board game Go. More specifically, the face-off between Lee Sedol, winner of 18 world titles and widely considered to be the greatest player of the past decade, and Google’s DeepMind-AI-powered Alpha Go. In a now landmark match, Alpha Go didn’t[…]

Digital Shanzhai: Connected Manufacturing, Memes and Our Hardware Future

Posted on October 6, 2016September 2, 2017 by An Xiao Mina

I’ve become fascinated as of late by the manufacturing culture in Shenzhen and, having studied different aspects of Chinese Internet meme culture, I was interested specifically in the role of the Internet in the context of manufacturing. This interest is both academic and pragmatic—as a software product manager myself, I was also interested in what[…]