While it has more data than Western countries in some fields, such as facial recognition, there are factors that limit it in others.
are moving AI centres away from China may restrict Chinese access to the very best people in the future.Sky News' Helen-Ann Smith tests a device which helps patients learn to walk againThat is largely because last year the US launched a major new set of export regulations that essentially block China's access to the very best chips and technology.
To understand them, we travelled more than 1,000 miles from Shanghai, to a tiny town in the rural province of Guizhou. It involves people manually"teaching" the computer what it is looking at by literally describing the data - for example, how to tell the difference between a dog and a cat.