Medical AI PhD. Working in China hospitals. Speak and read Mandarin/Uyghur. I explain China’s latest AI & medical papers simply. YouTube: Dr Luke in China
Urumqi, Xinjiang
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Also just realised South Korea operates government-funded King Sejong Institutes INSIDE American universities with no problem🤣
And Japan’s government-backed Japan Foundation even offers American schools up to $30,000 towards Japanese-language teachers’ salaries.
Even Russia has a government-run cultural centre in Washington, DC. Yet none of these are a problem, just Chinese language schools🤣
Meanwhile, the US State Department runs its own overseas cultural centres called “American Spaces” where the State Department officially describes their purpose abroad as “In support of U.S. foreign policy objectives.”
I.e. spreading propaganda to foreign countries
Oh and did you know the US State Department’s OWN Foreign Affairs Manual says American-funded English-language programmes abroad should help develop “attitudes sympathetic to the U.S.”?
It even describes introducing American political ideas into foreign classrooms. Like….i’ve been to Confucius institutes several times and there’s been nothing like that! Complete hypocrisy
Meanwhile, the US State Department runs its own overseas cultural centres called “American Spaces” where the State Department officially describes their purpose abroad as “In support of U.S. foreign policy objectives.”
I.e. spreading propaganda to foreign countries
Oh and did you know the US State Department’s OWN Foreign Affairs Manual says American-funded English-language programmes abroad should help develop “attitudes sympathetic to the U.S.”?
It even describes introducing American political ideas into foreign classrooms. Like….i’ve been to Confucius institutes several times and there’s been nothing like that! Complete hypocrisy
People on X keep telling me Uyghurs are being forced to dance in Xinjiang. My wife is Uyghur and i can absolutely tell you nobody is forcing her, she takes dance classes every week!
But as you can see in the video, unfortunately ROBOTS are being forced to dance here!!! 😱 yep, a new local robotics AI centre has just opened here this week in Urumqi, where I live! So yeah in the video you can see them doing traditional Xinjiang dances which went viral online here…but you might think uhhhhh what’s the point, right? Why does China keep making robots dance instead of doing anything useful?!?
But as someone working in AI, this is the exact thing we need! Getting a humanoid robot to dance requires balance, precise movement, coordination and insane control systems. The exact things needed for robots to eventually work in factories and do all sorts of physical tasks!!!
So this is just a demo which should wake up the West that the robotics here are indeed next level!
Dr. Luke in China retweeted
My colleague at a hospital in Xinjiang was telling me how much time AI helps him with his job. A couple years ago he had no idea about how AI worked but the local government told him if he publishes any AI papers under the hospitals name he will get a big bonus. Then, if the hospital uses his AI he will get an even bigger bonus.
That's why Chinese AI is moving so fast, the governments are heavily subsidising it and making people want to get involved.
I just saw one Beijing hospital has already trialled > 20 types of robots with AI for heart scans, surgical planning and disease detection... it helps them speed everything up and also catch anything they might sometimes miss!
Interestingly each city in China has a medical University which all collaborate with local hospitals. So the students get free data for their paper and the hospitals get top class research applied to their patients! Actually my PhD research got patented and then used by the local hospitals in Shanghai (not sure if it still is!)
The UK has the NHS, offering enormous potential for nationwide adoption. America has a powerful medical technology industry and established regulatory pathways..
Which is great ofc, but the thing people miss is that inventing AI, approving AI and successfully USING AI are three completely different achievements. Nobody else comes anywhere close to China on AI at the moment and they've made it into a reliable healthcare for millions of patients.
My colleague at a hospital in Xinjiang was telling me how much time AI helps him with his job. A couple years ago he had no idea about how AI worked but the local government told him if he publishes any AI papers under the hospitals name he will get a big bonus. Then, if the hospital uses his AI he will get an even bigger bonus.
That's why Chinese AI is moving so fast, the governments are heavily subsidising it and making people want to get involved.
I just saw one Beijing hospital has already trialled > 20 types of robots with AI for heart scans, surgical planning and disease detection... it helps them speed everything up and also catch anything they might sometimes miss!
Interestingly each city in China has a medical University which all collaborate with local hospitals. So the students get free data for their paper and the hospitals get top class research applied to their patients! Actually my PhD research got patented and then used by the local hospitals in Shanghai (not sure if it still is!)
The UK has the NHS, offering enormous potential for nationwide adoption. America has a powerful medical technology industry and established regulatory pathways..
Which is great ofc, but the thing people miss is that inventing AI, approving AI and successfully USING AI are three completely different achievements. Nobody else comes anywhere close to China on AI at the moment and they've made it into a reliable healthcare for millions of patients.
For Uyghur marriage culture, i had to organise something called “chong chay” which means “big tea”. It’s meant to be where my family meet her family but of course mine couldn’t come, so we did a video call.
It is a pretty expensive event as you can see by all the gold and money (there was a lot more not shown in the video haha). I also got clothes for the family members who attended.
Of course i don’t mind - that money goes straight back to us. Her parents will buy us things for the future with it and they also got me some gifts too so it was a really beautiful moment👏
The oldest member of the family gave a speech to me in Uyghur telling me her expectations and after which she welcomed me to the family. It’s super important as it’s the event where the family decides to accept you or not so i had to practice a lot of Uyghur for this!!!
China are miles ahead of @elonmusk’s Neuralink! I just made a YouTube video on an area im researching with two of the biggest foreign experts on Brain Chips. They spoke about China’s rise in terms of efficiency and technology compared to the West:
youtu.be/PuLfeCkyWbA?is=kOqW…
Why? A Chinese company Neuracle received the world’s first commercial approval for an implantable brain chip designed to help paralysed patients regain hand-grasping ability using a brain-controlled glove.
Specialists from 42 Chinese hospitals have also received training meaning this is now going to roll out and be used for everyone soon!
Meanwhile, Neuralink still hasn’t received regulatory approval to commercially sell its brain implants.. its technology is still all in clinical trials, yet the media always talk about them not Chinese ones😂
Dr. Luke in China retweeted
Rishi Sunak (our former PM) is now warning Britain about China's dominance...
The irony? He saw it coming, warned us WHILE he was Prime Minister, then made decisions that arguably weakened Britain's response hahaha.
Now he wants to lecture us about Xi Jinping's strategy?
Well, Xi DID openly discuss increasing foreign dependence on Chinese supply chains back in 2020. That's a legitimate concern.
But as a Brit living in China, what frustrates me is how Sunak ignores Britain's OWN failures.
Here in Xinjiang, Chinese EVs are everywhere. Even across Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, BYDs and Hongqis are increasingly common. Competition is BRUTAL, prices keep falling, and Beijing itself is trying to stop destructive price wars.
Yes, subsidies and overcapacity are real problems. But China's success also reflects years of investment, innovation and manufacturing efficiency.
And the ridiculous part is that Sunak warned against relying on subsidised Chinese cars back in 2023. Then, IN THE SAME SPEECH, delayed Britain's petrol/diesel phase-out by FIVE YEARS.
He KNEW what was happening.
Perhaps the bigger scandal isn't that China had an clever strategy, but that Britain had politicians who saw what was coming and STILL failed to respond effectively.
President Xi’s aim is to make the world dependent on China, while China depends on no one.
Without a coalition of countries to counter it, he will succeed.
thetimes.com/comment/columni…
Rishi Sunak (our former PM) is now warning Britain about China's dominance...
The irony? He saw it coming, warned us WHILE he was Prime Minister, then made decisions that arguably weakened Britain's response hahaha.
Now he wants to lecture us about Xi Jinping's strategy?
Well, Xi DID openly discuss increasing foreign dependence on Chinese supply chains back in 2020. That's a legitimate concern.
But as a Brit living in China, what frustrates me is how Sunak ignores Britain's OWN failures.
Here in Xinjiang, Chinese EVs are everywhere. Even across Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, BYDs and Hongqis are increasingly common. Competition is BRUTAL, prices keep falling, and Beijing itself is trying to stop destructive price wars.
Yes, subsidies and overcapacity are real problems. But China's success also reflects years of investment, innovation and manufacturing efficiency.
And the ridiculous part is that Sunak warned against relying on subsidised Chinese cars back in 2023. Then, IN THE SAME SPEECH, delayed Britain's petrol/diesel phase-out by FIVE YEARS.
He KNEW what was happening.
Perhaps the bigger scandal isn't that China had an clever strategy, but that Britain had politicians who saw what was coming and STILL failed to respond effectively.
President Xi’s aim is to make the world dependent on China, while China depends on no one.
Without a coalition of countries to counter it, he will succeed.
thetimes.com/comment/columni…
A Kenyan entrepreneur built an AI platform using a Chinese open-source model for just $25,000 because Claude would have cost him OVER $1 MILLION!
And in Uganda, Alibaba's AI model Qwen, which is amazing for languages, is helping farmers get advice in in over 30 local languages.
So as someone working in AI, the fascinating thing is not who makes the smartest model but the one that geninely changes lives for all and amazingly that's what China is doing!
Also China's open-model strategy has a HUGE structural advantage here: developers can customise and deploy models themselves rather than remain dependent on expensive proprietary services.
Wow, China Apple > American Apple now
I bought Apple Airpods with translation feature in China last year on release day and was sooooo dissapointed they didn't work because Apple intelligence was blocked here. Now Apple has JUST said it's going to launch Apple Intelligence in China using Alibaba and Baidu's own AI model.
This is super cool, Alibaba and Baidu are huge tech giants and now are working together. Imagine if US Apple had Anthropic and OpenAI work together? It means American products in China will be far more superior to American products anywhere else in the world. Exciting.. especially for language tasks which Chinese AI is in my opinion much better at.
This is a fascinating phenomenon to the world of Monte Carlo in Statistics.
It allows scientists to simulate millions of possible outcomes to estimate everything from stock market crashes to the spread of diseases…
But there’s a fascinating problem with it! Computers actually struggle to generate truly random numbers.
Why? Well, a computer follows mathematical instructions. Give it the same instructions and starting conditions, and it produces the same result. So how can something fundamentally predictable generate randomness?
Usually, it doesn’t and so scientists use something called pseudorandom number generation. These are basically algorithms that produce numbers which APPEAR random, even though they’re actually not
So by using millions of these generated samples, we can estimate probabilities and model uncertainty with rrally good accuracy.
ChatGPT, however, isn’t designed to be a uniform random number generator. It’s trained to recognise patterns, which helps explain why certain numbers, like 7, appear disproportionately often.
The great irony of modern statistics?
We use completely predictable machines to simulate millions of unpredictable futures.
Dr. Luke in China retweeted
Why do so many politicians talk about Xinjiang? You might be surprised to know a big reason is about energy and AI. Without Xinjiang, China's AI would not be as powerful and quick!
China just began a really huge transmission project between Hami in Xinjiang with Chongqing. Basically it uses the power in Hami then within 16ms the signal is sent 2000km away to AI companies!!!Connectivity between rural areas with energy and AI centers is the thing that will absolutely win the AI race and China is perfect for it.
Xinjiang itself, just one region of China has 167 GW of wind and solar, Japan has 99 GW, the UK has 54 GW. Insane levels. US data centres can wait up to 7 years queuing up for power!
Why do so many politicians talk about Xinjiang? You might be surprised to know a big reason is about energy and AI. Without Xinjiang, China's AI would not be as powerful and quick!
China just began a really huge transmission project between Hami in Xinjiang with Chongqing. Basically it uses the power in Hami then within 16ms the signal is sent 2000km away to AI companies!!!Connectivity between rural areas with energy and AI centers is the thing that will absolutely win the AI race and China is perfect for it.
Xinjiang itself, just one region of China has 167 GW of wind and solar, Japan has 99 GW, the UK has 54 GW. Insane levels. US data centres can wait up to 7 years queuing up for power!
Crazy this hasn’t got more attention.. Imagine being an American investor watching Chinese robotics and AI advance at incredible speed.
You want to participate in that growth then you see a company fined MORE THAN DOUBLE its investment for failing to file a notification.
Ridiculous
I can’t believe what i just read - a US company has just been fined $200k over a $92k investment in a Chinese robotics startup.
The fine was more than TWICE the original investment!!
But the weird thing is the US government didn’t even describe the investment itself as prohibited or risky… its just they didn’t tell Trump they did it. All because its a Chinese company, ridiculous!
Just after Trump and Xi met on AI this is a huge shame whos actually going to risk investing in Chinese AI now even when much of it is so much better
I can’t believe what i just read - a US company has just been fined $200k over a $92k investment in a Chinese robotics startup.
The fine was more than TWICE the original investment!!
But the weird thing is the US government didn’t even describe the investment itself as prohibited or risky… its just they didn’t tell Trump they did it. All because its a Chinese company, ridiculous!
Just after Trump and Xi met on AI this is a huge shame whos actually going to risk investing in Chinese AI now even when much of it is so much better
I found a super cool Soviet Union complex in Urumqi. These buildings are still lived in today and it feels just like i’m in Kazakhstan..
Actually in 1952, these were some of the most prestigious homes in Xinjiang as they were built as “Experts’ Buildings” (专家楼) for Soviet engineers who came to Xinjiang to help build China’s oil industry.
This whole area is actually owned by the Karamay government (richest place in Xinjiang and one if richest in China due to oil) so the land is just insanely expensive.
But interestingly, the city of Karamay basically didn’t exist when it was made
China and the USSR had established a joint oil company in Xinjiang in 1950. Its offices moved to this compound, Mingyuan, in 1953.
Soviet petroleum experts lived here while Chinese and Soviet teams searched the deserts of northern Xinjiang for oil.
Then, in 1955, they found Karamay..which is now home to many AI hubs in fact!
