"China is betting on AI and investing in AI and deploying AI on a scale no other country is doing,"
As developments in AI accelerate, some in the US fear that the ability of China's powerful central government to marshal data and pour resources into the field will push it ahead.
The country has announced billions in funding for start-ups, launched programmes to woo researchers from overseas and streamlined its data policies.
It has announced news-reading robots and AI-powered strategy for foreign relations. Perhaps most alarming to the US are its efforts to incorporate it into its military.
In the last few years, Washington has toughened oversight of Chinese investments, banned US firms from doing business with certain Chinese companies and increased criminal prosecution of alleged technology theft.
"What the Trump administration is doing is a sign... the US knows that its geopolitical power will be redefined and reconfigured by this era," said Mr Prakash, who works at the Toronto-based Center for Innovating the Future.
Will the competing desire for an edge in AI development lead to various new technological advances, and even possibly - Practically human Ai run on dice reactions.-.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50255191
As developments in AI accelerate, some in the US fear that the ability of China's powerful central government to marshal data and pour resources into the field will push it ahead.
The country has announced billions in funding for start-ups, launched programmes to woo researchers from overseas and streamlined its data policies.
It has announced news-reading robots and AI-powered strategy for foreign relations. Perhaps most alarming to the US are its efforts to incorporate it into its military.
In the last few years, Washington has toughened oversight of Chinese investments, banned US firms from doing business with certain Chinese companies and increased criminal prosecution of alleged technology theft.
"What the Trump administration is doing is a sign... the US knows that its geopolitical power will be redefined and reconfigured by this era," said Mr Prakash, who works at the Toronto-based Center for Innovating the Future.
Will the competing desire for an edge in AI development lead to various new technological advances, and even possibly - Practically human Ai run on dice reactions.-.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50255191