What China's AI unicorns need to learn now that they can spot faces

A warehouse based in an industrial park near Beijing presents an absurd image of China’s controversial and much-loved AI boom.

The warehouse showcases the scampering around numerous robots, abiding by a complex and unknown pattern. Sometimes, the robot makes its way under a stack of shelves, raises it above the floor and carries it to the platform where a worker, who isn’t a robot, can take out products for their packagin....