> A State Council document, issued in July last year, resolved to position China as the world’s pre-eminent practitioner of artificial intelligence (AI) in both

> A State Council document, issued in July last year, resolved to position China as the world’s pre-eminent practitioner of artificial intelligence (AI) in both research and application within the next 12 years. The language sounds just like Japan's MITI-run 5th generation project in the late 1980's, where they planned large-scale use of Prolog to replace their country's "antiquated" IT systems written in languages like Cobol and C. Using Prolog didn't quite work out the way the Japanese expected. Perhaps the Chinese have similarly overestimated the true potential of AI.