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12/100

Lucas Beyer says the belief that China only copies hurt German automakers

AILucas Beyer says the belief that China only copies Western technology caused Germany's automotive industry to fall into its current crisis. Francois Fleuret replies that such views reflect ignorance about Chinese engineering and AI research and are filled by racist assumptions.
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"China is just copying our stuff they can't innovate" is exactly the mentality that got the German automotive industry into the complete disaster of a position that it is in now.

François Fleuret@francoisfleuret
There are three elements here: (1) being clueless about Chinese performance in engineering and research in general (2) being clueless about the situation in AI in particular (3) having some racist priors filling you cluelessness.
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Original title: "China is just copying our stuff they can't innovate" is exactly the mentality that got the German automotive industry into the complete ...