AI towns to get go-ahead

Shanghai unicorn company Deep Blue Technology will roll out two artificial intelligence towns featuring driverless vehicles in East China's Shanghai and Jiangsu province in the next three months, which will be the first of their kind in China.

Deep Blue founder and Chief Executive Officer Chen Haibo said that the AI towns will be located in southeastern Shanghai's Lingang area and Changzhou in Jiangsu province, with each town covering about 4 square kilometers.

Established together with the local governments, the AI towns will be controlled by an AI brain, overlooking most of their daily operations, said Chen. All the cars running in the town will be driverless vehicles with no police directing the traffic. The town will also work as an incubator for AI companies, he said.