Two topics dominated the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos last week: Donald Trump and artificial intelligence. Of the two, the latter was the more interesting and almost certainly the more significant. Much attention in the discussion was devoted to DeepSeek, the surprise Chinese upstart. Yet we have merely learned that knowledge spreads: no country is going to monopolise these new technologies. This has surprised markets. With new technologies, such “surprises” are not surprising. But it does not change the big question, which is what advancing machine intelligence means for us all.
上周在達沃斯舉行的世界經濟論壇年會上，兩個話題占據了主導地位：唐納德?特朗普(Donald Trump)和人工智能。在這兩者中，后者更具趣味性，幾乎可以肯定也更為重要。討論中，大量關注集中在中國的意外新秀——深度求索。然而，我們僅僅了解到知識的傳播：沒有哪個國家會壟斷這些新技術。這讓市場感到意外。對于新技術而言，這樣的“意外”并不令人驚訝。但這并沒有改變一個重大問題，即機器智能的進步對我們所有人意味著什么。