This is such a brazen deflection I had to create an account to point it out. Racism, seriously? No, papers that advance the SOTA, and more importantly introduce

This is such a brazen deflection I had to create an account to point it out. Racism, seriously? No, papers that advance the SOTA, and more importantly introduce powerful novel concepts and techniques, have plenty of ethnic Chinese authors. The Chinese are very numerous in the field, just like in software in general, unsurprisingly. It's just those authors overwhelmingly work in the United States, and rarely in other allied countries. Perhaps the highest-cited ML paper that can be attributed to Mainland China is still affiliated with Microsoft [1]. The fearmongering is miscalibrated, whether it be about PRC-developed AGI or about Chinese people stealing our tech. To a great extent, they are building it. Native Chinese development, on the other hand, is exactly like OP says, incremental and constrained to internal-policing-related niches like face recognition (actually that's pretty much it). They also opensource pretty powerful models [2], [3], so that's nice of them. But nothing seriously game-breaking. 1. https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.01497 https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.01497 2. https://huggingface.co/spaces/THUDM/GLM-130B https://huggingface.co/spaces/THUDM/GLM-130B 3. https://huggingface.co/BAAI/EVA https://huggingface.co/BAAI/EVA