China will be an AI Super Power by 2030
Michael Spencer
A.I. Writer, researcher and curator - full-time Newsletter publication manager.
At the Last Futurist, we’ve always been bullish on China’s capability to become a technological super-power. As it becomes more dominant economically, it only follows that it will extend into artificial intelligence supremacy as well.
With more consumers, more Big Data and a more varied app mobile economy, it has more E-commerce competitors and a state-backed data harvesting program in its social credit system. It also has the world’s leading facial recognition startup companies.
It really does appear in 2020 as if The People’s Republic of China has the most ambitious AI strategy of all nations and provides the most resources worldwide for its implementation. They prioritize it because they realize it will determine commercial and business leadership and national supremacy in a two-horse race with the United States.
Today Donald Trump has just signed “phase one” of a trade deal with China. The actual ramifications of this deal are not so clear for the long-term strategic rivalry between these two countries however.
China will also need to develop AI talent at home in the next decades to truly be better positioned in the field of machine learning and AI engineers. The US is home to five of the world’s top 10 universities in the AI field, which includes computer vision and machine learning, while China has three. China’s climate means it has more difficulty attracting top talent who are often educated in the United States or the U.K.
China is like a nation reborn in the information era, young and vigorous and ambitious to be a leader in technology as its economy has surged ahead in previous decades and it’s best positioned to be the leader of the world in the 21st century, albeit it’s still early to tell what kind of leader.
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5 年Insightful. This is also in sync with the global patenting trends in Artificial Intelligence. Though US companies are ahead of China in patent filings, Chinese universities and research organizations are way ahead of the US.
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5 年In 2017 5-6x more PhDs graduated in China than in the USA. ?Many of those Phds' were overseen by Ivy league universities in the USA, Oxford or Cambridge. ?University of California alone has 20,000 Chinese students on campus of whom 40% are Graduate students. ? China is not the country most westerners think it is. They already have a manufacturing skills-base as a result of investment from companies in the Western world who were going wild to drive down manufacturing costs in the 90s'.? Companies like Cisco and Dell risked their intellectual property for cost savings and now Huawei’s service provider and enterprise router global market share is 24.5 percent. Lenovo with a market share of 22.5 and almost all of the computing devices badged as Dell, HP or Apple , as well as networking gear badged as Cisco are made in China and most of those by?Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., trading as Foxconn Technology Group, who employ 1.2m staff Be under no illusion the Chinese state is driving hard in the areas of AI, Quantum computing and Networking. ?And it's not for the wests benefit. ?The worry is that they get things right and that China will 'go dark' by which I mean technologically they will be able to see out, but we will not be able to see in; China will be able to walk through and/or redirect?our data, influence our news and social media. ?The use of deep fake media will make it impossible to determine what is true and what is not. ? Kind of dystopian but interesting none the less. ?
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5 年This may be right up to some extent but i am also convinced with Ben He's comments. Regulations in technology is the need of time and for future. anything or everything which will impact positively on human beings, should be encourage but under the regulations and defined policies.?