SHANGHAI: Jack Ma, an icon of China’s Internet era, painted a rosy picture of the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) on Thursday, saying smarter machines would allow humans to better enjoy life.

Ma, executive chairman of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, held a dialogue with Elon Musk, chief executvie officer of US electric carmaker Tesla Inc., at the opening ceremony of the 2019 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in east China’s Shanghai.

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