BEIJING, June 18 (Reuters) – China’s commerce ministry has announced measures to promote the application of artificial intelligence in the consumption sector, for both products and services, state broadcaster CCTV said on Thursday.
The ministry said the 17 measures will look at enhancing the integration of AI into households and businesses nationwide.
For goods consumption, they are looking at turning consumer electronics from functional to intelligent and growing a new market for humanoid robots, CCTV said.
Under services, the measures aim to address AI’s rapid penetration from consumer retail into public services and lifestyle services.
“The introduction of AI is expected to break through the bottleneck in service consumption constrained by high labour costs and low standardization,” said Lin Jian, the deputy director of the international trade cooperation institute under the ministry.
(Reporting by Liz Lee and Shi Bu; editing by Philippa Fletcher)
