Tuesday, September 25, 2018

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

Amazon

This book was published this morning, and I downloaded it to my Kindle readers - for $.99!

The author is Chinese-American (born in Taiwan) and has the advantage of being literate in Chinese. Probably Simplified Chinese, that the Chinese government is pushing.

To my surprise. he does understand what AI is. Having done graduate work on that, in American universities.

He then moved to China, and is an investor in Chinese AI companies. This is a very difficult transition, that most Chinese-Americans have not attempted. They know how ruthless it is there, and they have stayed away from it.

He explains why China is the rising power in AI. They are taking American discoveries, and applying them to their situation - millions of people, already using the Internet (and the Phone) to do everything imaginable.

They do not have the best AI researchers - these have stayed in the US and the UK. But they have plenty of second-rate researchers - who can learn, very quickly, from them.

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