For several years now, there have been talks about China catching up or even overtaking Western countries when it comes to innovation. But what concrete signs are there?I've read multiple times that China is supposedly now a leading publisher of AI research papers. But how come ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion and all these other recent AI innovations didn't come out of China? Even the three giants,...
I've been based in Vietnam for the past few years. This country seems to be relatively slow in adopting digital payment methods (which is just fine by me, btw.). Cash is still accepted anywhere and also still appears to be the most common payment method. When it comes to digital payments, regular bank transfers via bank apps seem to be the most popular option. I take it that the same is the...
I would love something where I could say "Show me round objects" and then the AI returns things like a soccer ball, an orange, the moon, etc. It seems such a simple task. Is there anything like this out there that can be used out of the box? How come all AI's seem to be only focused solely on art? P.S. I tried with AI's like Craiyon, Midjourney and others, but none of them did anything close to...
One thing I noticed and that I haven't been able to completely make sense of is why there aren't any big price comparison portals that serve the U.S. market.I'm from Switzerland. One of the first use cases of the internet for me was to use the local price comparison site comparis.ch to get the best deals on services like health insurance or broadband packages. Comparis is a hugely popular...