China funds Artificial Intelligence yet stifles free expression required for its development

China Sets Goal to Lead In Artificial Intelligence is a top down directive for development  by an authoritarian government that on the other hand is set on stifling free expression. Its ideas and new ways of thinking that make AI progress, not lack of funding. While it sounds ominous this initiative is doomed to fizzle out like those 1980's Japanese Industrial Policies that looked like they would take over but lead to a thirty years now depression.