AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
Over the coming decade, China’s gladiator entrepreneurs will fan out across hundreds of industries, applying deep learning to any problem that shows the potential for profit. If artificial intelligence is the new electricity, Chinese entrepreneurs will be the tycoons and tinkerers who electrify everything from household appliances to homeowners’ in
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Overall, Chinese and American companies are on about equal footing in internet AI, with around 50–50 odds of leadership based on current technology. I predict that in five years’ time, Chinese technology companies will have a slight advantage (60–40) when it comes to leading the world…
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Once machines can see and hear the world around them, they’ll be ready to move through it safely…
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Kai-Fu Lee • AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
“Many people understand it,” he continued, “but it’s much harder to live it. For that we must humble ourselves. We have to feel in our bones just how small we are, and we must recognize that there’s nothing greater or more valuable in this world than a simple act of sharing love with others. If we start from there, the rest will begin to fall into
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To be clear, none of the scenarios described above—the immortal digital minds or omnipotent superintelligences—are possible based on today’s technologies; there remain no known algorithms for AGI or a clear engineering route to get there. The singularity is not something that can occur spontaneously, with autonomous vehicles running on deep learnin
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Over one-quarter of Chinese workers are still on farms, with another quarter involved in industrial production. That compares with less than 2 percent of Americans in agriculture and around 18 percent in industrial jobs. Pundits such as Rise of the Robots author Martin Ford have argued that this large base of routine manual labor could make China “
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We can choose a purely technocratic approach—one that sees each of us as a set of financial and material needs to be satisfied—and simply transfer enough cash to all people so that they don’t starve or go homeless. In fact, this notion of universal basic income seems to be becoming more and more popular these days. But in making that choice I belie
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For the most part, members of the dystopian camp aren’t worried about the AI takeover as imagined in films like the Terminator series, with human-like robots “turning evil” and hunting down people in a power-hungry conquest of humanity. Superintelligence would be the product of human creation, not natural evolution, and thus wouldn’t have the same
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These are visions of Hao Jingfang, a Chinese science-fiction writer and economics researcher. Hao’s novelette “Folding Beijing” won the prestigious Hugo Award in 2016 for its arresting depiction of a city in which economic classes are separated into different worlds.