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- China said it sees broad potential in the use of AI tech and wants to integrate it into daily life.
- China's local tech firms are now rushing to develop their own AI chatbots.
- But that's amid reports China — which controls information tightly — blocked access to ChatGPT.
China appears to have had a change of heart about artificial intelligence.
It now wants to integrate the tech into daily life, just days after reports emerged that it had blocked its citizens from accessing viral AI chatbot ChatGPT.