Beyond the tokens: China's AI push is shaping a "smart economy"

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  daily news and analysis we keep you informed and inspired this is well today you probably do n't think about it

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  when you ask an ai to whip up a quick dinner recipe or polish an email but every time you do you 're using them hundreds

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  and even thousands of times we call them tokens And here's the staggering part.

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  By March, China had recorded over 140 trillion token calls per day.

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  That's more than a thousand times the number from just two years ago and up over 40% since the end of last year.

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  What's driving this explosion?

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  How is China now a global AI powerhouse, weaving artificial intelligence into the fabric of factories,

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  hospitals, and even our homes?

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  And as the country's economy goes smart, what does that shift mean for the rest of the world?

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  Hello and welcome to the panel discussion of World Today.

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  I'm Do Hongyu in Beijing.

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  To delve deeper into China's AI token search and more, we 're joined by Assistant Professor of Economics,

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  Li Luan at Peking University, Professor Andy Mock with Beijing Foreign Studies University,

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  and Professor Liu Baocheng, Director of the Center for International Business Ethics and the University

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  of International Business and Economics.

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  Thank you, professors, for joining us in the show.

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  First of all, let's start with the very, very basic.

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  Let's start with you, Andy.

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  Could you please explain in the simplest way possible, what exactly is a token?

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  Sure, absolutely happy to do that.

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