Jeffrey Ding

ChinAI Newsletter

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Narrations of the ChinAI Newsletter by Jeffrey Ding. China is becoming an indispensable part of the global AI landscape. Alongside the rise of China’s AI capabilities, a surge of Chinese writing and scholarship on AI-related topics is shedding light on a range of fascinating topics, including: China’s grand strategy for advanced technology like AI, the characteristics of key Chinese AI actors (e.g. companies and individual thinkers), and the ethical implications of AI development. While traditional media and China specialists can provide important insights on these questions through on-the-gro...

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Jeffrey Ding

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“ChinAI #236: The LLM Implementation Gap” by Jeffrey Ding 11.09.2023 7:04

Subtitle: Baidu's plan to bridge the implementation gap in large models. Greetings from a world where… for the rest of the college football season, this status update will be devoted to tracking the Iowa Hawkeye offense’s march to mediocrity …As always, the searchable archive of all past issues is here. Please please subscribe here to support ChinAI under a Guardian/Wikipedia-style tipping model (...

“ChinAI #235: GPT Medicine Beyond Imagination” by Jeffrey Ding 29.08.2023 7:20

Greetings from a world where… sitting with Philly fans at a DC United game was an incredible experience …As always, the searchable archive of all past issues is here. Please please subscribe here to support ChinAI under a Guardian/Wikipedia-style tipping model (everyone gets the same content but those who can pay support access for all AND compensation for awesome ChinAI contributors). Feature Tra...

“ChinAI #234: The (Privacy) Cost of Being Fabulous?” by Jeffrey Ding 21.08.2023 8:16

Subtitle: China's viral AI-generated portrait app faces backlash on facial data collection. Greetings from a world where… Does school really start this week? …As always, the searchable archive of all past issues is here. Please please subscribe here to support ChinAI under a Guardian/Wikipedia-style tipping model (everyone gets the same content but those who can pay support access for all AND comp...

“ChinAI #233: A public comment on the U.S.’s investment curbs in Chinese AI firms” by Jeffrey Ding 14.08.2023 10:47

Subtitle: Plus, Wudaokou Origins of China’s Large Models (Part 2). Greetings from a world where… Does school really start in a week? …As always, the searchable archive of all past issues is here. Please please subscribe here to support ChinAI under a Guardian/Wikipedia-style tipping model (everyone gets the same content but those who can pay support access for all AND compensation for awesome Chin...

“ChinAI #232: The Wudaokou Origins of China’s Large Models” by Jeffrey Ding 07.08.2023 7:30

Greetings from a world where… we all make sure to drag our favorite newsletters from the promotions tab to the primary tab, right? …As always, the searchable archive of all past issues is here. Please please subscribe here to support ChinAI under a Guardian/Wikipedia-style tipping model (everyone gets the same content but those who can pay support access for all AND compensation for awesome ChinAI...

ChinAI Pod #3: The Worldwide Web of Chinese and Russian Information Controls with Valentin Weber 16.12.2019

Welcome to the third episode of the ChinAI podcast, hosted by Jeff Ding. Our guest today is Valentin Weber , a DPhil Candidate in Cyber Security at the Centre for Doctoral Training in Cyber Security, University of Oxford. He joins the ChinAI Pod to discuss his latest report, “ The Worldwide Web of Chinese and Russian Information Controls ,” supported by the Open Technology Fund . It presents a typ...

ChinAI Pod #2: Reframing Superintelligence with Eric Drexler 24.10.2019

Welcome to the second episode of the ChinAI podcast, hosted by Jeff Ding. Our guest today is Eric Drexler, a senior research fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute. He joins the ChinAI podcast to discuss the latest FHI technical report “Reframing Superintelligence: Comprehensive AI Services as General Intelligence .” In contrast to conventional views of superintelligence as an agent with unbou...

ChinAI Pod #1: AI Talent Policy with Remco Zwetsloot 24.09.2019

Welcome to the first episode of the ChinAI podcast, hosted by Jeff Ding. There’s a lot of great podcasts out there that get interesting people to talk about their latest work on either the surface or the euphotic zone layer (the layer of the ocean where sunlight still penetrates); the ChinAI podcast seeks to dive into the deepest layers of a guest’s work — whether that be a new report, paper, epic...