Nothing put-on about coming AI boom

Internet, cloud computing, big data and artificial intelligence will transform lives

The term "artificial intelligence" is often associated with driverless cars and highly sophisticated machines that can outsmart even the best of human minds in complicated tasks, such as the strategy board game Go.

But the Chinese experience suggests that technologies as such are innovated not just for these attention-grabbing examples, but to make substantial improvements in day-to-day life.