In 2024, OpenAI talked about five levels of AI.
- Chatbot/Conversational AI
- Reasoners
- Agents
- Innovators
- Organizations
We are at level 3.
Chinese AI could be good or superb in the second and third level.
Chinese people are good at solving problems (think about exams) and doing tasks (think about how efficient Chinese workers can be at repetitive work ).
However, if Chinese AI needs to at level 4 and 5, and if it’s truly “Chinese”, then Chinese people need to evolve.
True innovation is scarce in China. Chinese society currently doesn’t reward true innovation. It’s like “solving news problems with new ways”. That is not the natural motivation. Chinese AI may stuck at level 3 if we don’t do innovation right.
It’s another problem at level 5. Most Chinese people don’t know how to organize themselves.
So it’s hard for me to see how Chinese AI can do this right either.
They may struggle for a while.
Or they might become a different animal.