People & DiscourseWei Kai (魏凯, Director of the AI Research Institute, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology)Statement
CAICT's Wei Kai says agents show an early form of digital labor
Said agents have become the main form of large-model applications and are showing an early form of digital labor, and that safety governance has become another main line running in parallel with technological development. Pointed out that the speed of AI's penetration into industry is constrained by how hard it is to obtain industrial data, how well process knowledge is encapsulated, and reliability requirements
Why it matters
A Chinese state-affiliated think tank officially raised safety governance to an axis on par with technological development. Its diagnosis that the bottlenecks to penetrating manufacturing are data, process knowledge and reliability matches how things look on the OSAT floor
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