Meaning, value, knowledge, and emotion once anchored our reality, and when all four shift together, our understanding begins to fracture.

In this conversation, the FT’s John Thornhill and MIT Technology Review’s Caiwei Chen consider the battle between Silicon Valley and Beijing for technological supremacy.

From ChatGPT crafting emails, to AI systems recommending TV shows and even helping diagnose disease, the presence of machine intelligence in everyday life is no longer science fiction.

AI focuses on learning patterns from data to make decisions; quantum computing focuses on raw computational power for complex problems like molecular simulation and code-breaking.