AI Theme Park

China’s first artificial intelligence (AI) theme park opened to public in early November, after 10 months renovation of a municipal park in north Beijing. Driverless shuttle buses, smart lamp posts that can record exercise data, and intelligent speakers that can respond to human instructions have been installed in

Haidian Park. The District Government of Haidian and Internet company Baidu signed an agreement in January to jointly explore “smart city” building. Haidian Park, which received about 1.2 million tourists last year, was chosen to run the pilot program. In recent years, many Chinese hi-tech companies have entered the AI industry, while the Central Government also stressed in October that it would boost the