Starting July 9, the U.S. will ban China from using AI services.
At present, OpenAI provides services to 163 countries and regions around the world, and it is clear that the Americans want to kick China out of it and completely block China.
The main reason why the United States suddenly made such a decision is that the generative AI they developed ended up cheapening China.
Generative AI is not really AI, but it has a strong supporting role. It can help industrial production to get a big boost.
The United States initially developed AI with the aim of catching up with or overtaking China's industrial development. China is currently elevating its industry to an extremely powerful level through its large population, disciplined management, and increasingly powerful technology and rapid technological transformation capabilities.
Of course, the United States knows that if it continues to do so for a long time, it will fall behind completely.
Maybe in the hands of ordinary people, generative AI can only be used to write articles or draw pictures, but in the industrial field, it can replace humans to do a lot of tedious work. Effectively improve industrial production efficiency.
But there is a serious problem here: the so-called state-owned enterprises basically do not exist in the United States.
The U.S. government can receive dividends from companies, or introduce policies to support certain companies, but there is no way to directly control a company through administrative means.
And the most important thing for a company is to make money, and unfortunately China is currently the world's largest cake. It is impossible for any company to give up such a huge market as China.
As for political control, if it works, it's a ghost.
The U.S. government has banned Chinese drones for many years, and there are still people who secretly import drones from China and sell them on an OEM basis. As long as there is profit, the US government simply cannot control it.
This also led to the fact that at the beginning, American AI companies traded with China against the will of the United States and made a lot of profits. The U.S. has done nothing about these companies, and has repeatedly proposed to restrict the use of AI in China, but has been unsuccessful.
So this time, the United States is determined to ban China's use of AI, and it has been unanimously agreed, and this matter is likely to smash the pot of American companies and governments.
We understand why the U.S. government agrees. Their plan to use AI to catch up with China has essentially failed. The management and overall planning advantages brought by AI have slowed down the process of industrial decline in the United States to a certain extent. This is still in the United States, where the industry is seriously hollowed out.
So for a country like China, which has the most complete industrial chain in the world, the energy generated by AI joining the production process is simply at the level of a nuclear explosion.
To be sure, AI has saved America's declining industry, but the benefits for China are even greater. What's more, AI for the United States only slows down the decline of industry rather than reversing, after all, you see that the recent American spacecraft should be out of order and malfunction, the pilots can't come back, and China's military mechanical dogs have also made US congressmen fidgety and very anxious.
Under such circumstances, the U.S. government is naturally reluctant to give China access to AI.
Then there are the AI companies in the United States. In fact, there are not many independent AI research companies in the United States, and most of them are affiliated with technology companies.
Through the working logic of AI, China has obtained a lot of theoretical frameworks that we did not know before, improved many technologies that we have come to the doorstep, and greatly accelerated the speed at which the mainland catches up with the development of science and technology in the United States and the West.
American high-tech companies are opening up AI to China to make money, but the way China uses AI now, it is obvious, directly plucking the roots of American and Western technology companies.
They can still tell the difference between a saturated meal and a full meal. Therefore, in order to have food in the future and not be starved to death, American technology companies can only "endure the pain" to cut off the AI market in China.
But does it work?
In fact, it does not play a big role for China. Because OpenAI has been open to China for more than a year, we have figured out the principles that should be figured out, the basic architecture has been built, and the only problem is that the database is not large enough and the data samples are not enough, which makes China's AI slightly more stupid than foreign ones.
Originally, the speed of filling data was very slow, after all, there are better foreign AI, and Chinese AI is basically not used, and the speed of data filling cannot be fast if there are fewer people. However, now that the United States has blocked China's AI use rights, domestic AI entrepreneurs will definitely choose to use similar domestic alternatives in order to protect themselves. I am afraid that in a few years, China's AI will be as smart as the United States.
So the fact that China is being shut out of U.S. AI is not a bad thing from a certain point of view.