Translation studies professor Xiao Weiqing says that large language models will raise the bar for translation, squeezing the survival space for junior and intermediate-level translators and potentially edging them out of the industry. But all is not lost.
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While naysayers have painted a doomsday scenario for Hong Kong since the plummeting of the Hang Seng Index, EAI senior research fellow Yu Hong points to Hong Kong’s strong fundamentals, the vitality of the Greater Bay Area and the knock-on effects of the recovery of the mainland economy. He notes that as long as the mainland economy continues to grow, the Hong Kong stock market will remain attractive to regional and global investors.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionising China's animation industry by cutting production times and generating culturally distinct content. The first episode of Qianqiu Shisong (《千秋诗颂》), China’s first AI-generated animated series, was aired on Chinese state television on 26 February 2024. The series was produced with the help of CMG Media GPT, a generative AI model co-developed by Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and state broadcaster China Media Group.
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Technology expert Yin Ruizhi takes us through the latest development in generative AI technology: Sora, OpenAI’s new video creation software. How will this change the landscape, and how far will China fall behind in the AI race?
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Amid China-US competition, one area of interest is the commercial aerospace industry, where China is preparing to develop its own capabilities. Lianhe Zaobao correspondent Wong Siew Fong explores the issue.
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Not only did the US manage to stave off a decline in 2023, it even achieved an annual GDP growth of 2.5%, with its stock market soaring to an all-time high. Commentator Jin Jian Guo notes that the history of the development of the US economy proves how crucial the entrepreneurial spirit is for an economy, helping the US keep its spot as the leading economy in the world.
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Japanese academic Sukegawa Seiya notes that with the ASEAN-China Free Trade Agreement and the Thai government’s aggressive promotion policies, the Thai auto market and even the global auto market could soon be filled with China EV brands that are made in Thailand.
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The US’s “small yard, high fence” strategy of restricting key technologies from China would be difficult to effect in practice. The fact is that products such as semiconductor chips from China are essential in many downstream industries such as the automotive industry, and even security concerns would not stop their use.
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With the advent of AI text-to-video model Sora developed by OpenAI, it seems that China’s tech sector is getting nervous and looking at how to close the gap with the US, which is set to get bigger if China is unable to create its own similar technology.