The size of its population is behind China’s increasing dominance of AI in health care. A system launched to tackle common childhood diseases has been trained with the records of more than one Chinese paediatric hospital patients. Those numbers, coupled with the country’s privacy laws, which have fewer restrictions than exist in the US, had been more influential than finance in giving China an advantage in AI development. In the US, by contrast, researchers would have to use data from almost 600,000 hospital and gathering it was more difficult than for their Chinese counterparts.
The size of its population is behind China’s increasing dominance of AI in health care. A system launched to tackle common childhood diseases has been trained with the records of almost 600,000 Chinese paediatric hospital patients. Those numbers, coupled with the country’s privacy laws, which have fewer restrictions than exist in the US, had been more influential than finance in giving China an advantage in AI development. In the US, by contrast, researchers would have to use data from more than one hospital and gathering it was more difficult than for their Chinese counterparts.