China leads in Generative AI adoption globally, underlining the country’s progress, as per a new survey report. After the US launched its Open AI ChatGPT program in 2022, it gained worldwide attention. Thereafter, China is advancing its own generative AI technology.
In a survey conducted by Coleman Parkes Research and SAS, a U.S. AI and analytics software company, among 1600 decision makers globally, 83% of Chinese respondents claimed to have utilized the generative AI, the technology that drives ChatGPT. This was greater than the 16 other countries and regions that participated in the survey including the U.S. where 65% of the respondents stated that they had implemented generative AI. The average worldwide was 54 percent.The insurance, banking, retail, telecommunications and marketing were the companies that participated in the survey.
The outcomes demonstrate China’s quick advancement in the field of generative AI. This impetus was created by the November 2022 release of the ChatGPT by Microsoft backed Open AI which compelled other Chinese businesses to release their separate versions of such software.
China dominates the Open AI patent race, according to a report released by the World Intellectual property Organisation of the United Nations. China submitted more than 38,000 patents between 2014 and 2023, compared to 6276 patents filed by the United States during the same period.
Currently, China is home to over 4,500 AI businesses. According to government data, the core AI business in the country reached a value of over 578 billion yuan (about $79.5 billion) in 2023, representing a remarkable 13.9 percent annual growth.
China has created a strong, independent domestic industry with services from IT heavyweights like ByteDance to startups like Zhipu, despite the fact that many of the world’s leading generative AI service providers, including the ChatGPT, face restrictions within China.
Although a pricing battle is projected to further drive down the cost of large language model services, enterprise adoption of generative AI is anticipated to accelerate in China.
Continuous automatic monitoring (CAM), which the SAS report referred to as “a controversial but widely-deployed use case for generative AI tools,” was another area in which China was considered to be the global leader.
According to Udo Sglavo, vice-president of applied AI and modeling at SAS, “this technology can collect and analyze vast amounts of data on users’ activities, behavior, and communications, which can lead to privacy infringements because they are not aware of the extent of the data being collected or how it is used.”
Sglavo added, “The algorithms and processes used in CAM are often proprietary and not transparent.”
China’s CAM developments support its overarching goal of dominating the artificial intelligence and surveillance technologies markets worldwide, he added. As China leads in Generative AI adoption, the graph is only likelier to increase from hereon.
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