How Alibaba’s ecosystem will ensure its artificial intelligence gets a real education

Last week, I attended the Alibaba Cloud Computing Conference, an annual showcase of its latest tech and innovations.
The theme was ‘Empower Digital China’ but also served as a reminder of how powerful Alibaba is. Its roots may lie in e-commerce, but through its machine learning systems and its cloud computing services, it has extended into almost every facet of Chinese life.
Smart retail, hotels, driverless cars, robotics, logistics, payment systems all feed into its vast e