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Coming up, many think of artificial intelligence as just playing a supporting role,
automating the routine, optimizing our every day.
But China's latest play rewrites that script entirely.
Enter the smart economy.
It is a full-scale fusion of industrial might and machine intelligence here and now.
AI doesn't exist.
It drives.
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Up to now we've treated artificial intelligence as a tool, something to boost efficiency,
to automate tasks, and to help us work faster and more efficiently.
But for today's China, AI has become the engine of an entirely new stage of economic development,
and this year's government work report gave it a name.
It's called the smart economy.