- According to Bloomberg, Elon Musk appeared via video link at the World AI Conference in Shanghai.
- Musk said he admired the “wisdom and determination of the Chinese people.”
- The government-sponsored conference is sponsored by US-licensed Huawei and SenseTime.
Bloomberg reports that Elon Musk discussed China’s AI technology at a government-sponsored conference on Thursday and praised China’s AI development.
According to Bloomberg, Mr. Musk said he admired the wisdom and determination of the Chinese people. “As long as the Chinese people are determined to do one thing well, so will AI.”
According to the South China Morning Post, Musk appeared on screen at a global AI conference in Shanghai hosted by Chinese government ministries.
According to the SCMP, the conference had the likes of Amazon Web Services, IBM and Microsoft on the list as strategic partners in 2019, but now the only U.S. company sponsoring the event is semiconductor maker Qualcomm. there is
This year’s sponsors include Huawei and SenseTime, both of which are sanctioned by the United States. The US government has long suspected Huawei of having close ties to the Chinese government and feared that its technology could be used by China to spy on the US.
SenseTime, China’s largest facial recognition startup, has been sanctioned by the United States for allegedly being involved in developing facial recognition technology used to target Muslim Uyghurs in western China’s Xinjiang Autonomous Region. Both companies have denied these allegations.
It’s worth noting that OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, was not present at the conference, which runs until Saturday.
Musk’s speech came less than two months after his first visit to China since the pandemic. He met with government officials and also stopped by Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory. There, he told staff late at night that their hard work “warmed my heart,” according to a video shared by state media.
The world’s richest man received a five-star welcome that included a 16-course meal. According to Reuters, Musk will meet China’s sixth-ranked vice premier, Ding Xuexiang, and is believed to be the first to meet a foreign CEO one-on-one.
Musk also drew criticism for his remarks during the trip. According to a statement from China’s foreign ministry, Musk reportedly told Chinese officials he opposed weakening economic ties between the two countries, saying their interests were “intertwined like conjoined twins.”
Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy called Mr Musk’s remarks “extremely disturbing” and accused Mr Musk of being “perverse” to the Chinese Communist Party as “a basis for favorable market treatment”. bottom.
Tesla did not immediately respond to an insider’s request for comment.
The insider reached out to Twitter for comment. The company responded to the inquiry with an automated message that it did not mention.
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