Tim Culpan, Columnist

Who's Leading AI Isn't the Intelligent Question

China or America, it doesn't matter. There's a more important issue.
Photographer: Wenjie Dong/Getty Images
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This week at the Bloomberg Ideas conference in San Francisco I had the pleasure of meeting a bunch of smart, friendly artificial intelligence researchers.

Being the Gadfly that I am, I figured it would be a great chance to ask what, to my mind, was an incisive question. Is China or the U.S. better at AI?