Reddit mentions of AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

Beyond the usual stuff regarding Belt and Road, this is a strategic move by China on multiple accounts.

First, I highly recommend reading AI Superpower by Lee Kaifu. Look past the conspiratorial-esque title and focus on the main points that Lee makes:

• The future of an AI dominated economy will largely be built on a mountain of data. China, through sheer numbers alone, has emerged as the Saudi Arabia of data.
  
• China's dominance in all things data revolves around building out a robust O2O ecosystem: Online-to-Offline is a huge part of the Chinese internet, and much of that is built off the fact that most of China's data comes from mobile phones that provide its tech giants like Tencent, Baidu, and Alibaba with unprecedented amount of data that allow their analytic AI to do things that their western counterparts can't.
  
• China's entrepreneurial class has acquired an edge through its heavy copying: Contrary to what is normally perceived, the pervasive amount of copying in the Chinese startup scene has bred an entire generation of entrepreneurs who not only must ruthlessly copy any and all new features from their competitors but simultaneously make themselves distinctive from their competitors. This means pushing out more features through an iterative process that relies less on innovation and more on speedy results.
  
  The article touched on the fact that India's vast population skews younger and are also more likely to make the technological leap onto mobile-first. With China being the leader in IoT (internet of things), opening a way for Indian users to provide Chinese tech giants with more data will only further cement China's position as a leader in the coming AI economy.

I've been reading and enjoying Kai-Fu Lee's punchy new book on AI and geopolitics, AI Superpowers. In essence, the book claims that China is likely to rapidly overtake the US in AI technology in the next decade.

In short, the author claims that tech-dominance in the machine learning age is a function of (1) access to lots of good data, (2) an aggressive and smart entrepreneurial class, (3) brilliant researchers, and (4), political will. It's hard to deny that - pending a new Manhattan project for AI - China owns the US in (1) and (4). China and the US are close on (2), but Lee points to China's more cutthroat markets as giving it an edge. Finally, while the US dominates in (3) for now, Lee claims that the recent advances of ML as laid down by Hinton et al. will take decades to implement, meaning that the field belongs to tinkerers rather than geniuses (for now).

I've not finished yet, but my only qualm is that the US might have political stability in its favour, for now. For all the problems America faces, they at least have a track record of muddling through relevantly similar scenarios, whereas we've yet to see what happens in China in the wake of, e.g., major growth slowdowns.

Anyway, highly recommended to all, and interested in case anyone is reading along and has thoughts. The most astonishing fact presented so far to my mind was this: "In terms of funding, Google dwarfs even its own government: US federal funding for math and and computer science research amounts to less than half of Google's own R&D budget."

His book is a good read

https://www.amazon.com/AI-Superpowers-China-Silicon-Valley-ebook/dp/B0795DNWCF

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