{"id":148076,"date":"2025-11-19T10:22:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T10:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/148076\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T10:22:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T10:22:18","slug":"in-central-china-ai-is-telling-humans-how-to-build-a-high-speed-rail-tunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/148076\/","title":{"rendered":"In central China, AI is telling humans how to build a high-speed rail tunnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In Wufeng Tujia autonomous county, Hubei province, the rugged beauty of central China masks the region\u2019s long-standing isolation. Its steep terrain and dense forests have long hindered transport, stifling growth and keeping communities cut off both physically and economically.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But a new force is now reshaping the landscape \u2013 with dynamite, drilling rigs and lines of code.<\/p>\n<p>The Yangcun Tunnel in Wufeng is part of a high-speed rail line designed to bring 350km\/h (217mph) trains into one of China\u2019s most geologically complex regions. It represents the world\u2019s first high-speed railway tunnel whose construction method was mainly determined by an <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/artificial-intelligence?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">artificial intelligence<\/a> (AI) system \u2013 before being executed by human engineers and workers.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">This milestone could mark a pivotal moment for the global AI race.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The tunnel cuts through the heart of Wufeng, a region shaped by hundreds of millions of years of geological upheaval. The area sits within the Wuling Mountain range, characterised by karst landscapes, deep fractures, fault zones, underground rivers and highly variable rock formations.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Wufeng is known to host over 120 recorded geological relics, including caves, sinkholes and stone spires \u2013 testaments to its volatile subterranean world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Wufeng Tujia autonomous county, Hubei province, the rugged beauty of central China masks the region\u2019s long-standing isolation.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[84253,220,84241,218,219,62704,84240,114,84245,84244,84246,61739,61,7087,60,84247,84250,80,84242,84251,84252,84248,84249,84243],"class_list":["post-148076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-acmix","tag-ai","tag-amtrak","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-bim","tag-cd-method","tag-china","tag-china-railway-siyuan-survey-and-design-group","tag-china-university-of-geosciences-wuhan","tag-focal-loss","tag-hubei-province","tag-ie","tag-iot","tag-ireland","tag-railway-standard-design","tag-sichuan-tibet-railway","tag-technology","tag-three-gorges","tag-wu-jiaming","tag-wufeng","tag-wuling-mountain","tag-yajiang-dam","tag-yangcun-tunnel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}