Tag: Ecosystem

China’s business ‘ecosystems’ are helping it win the global A.I. race | Fortune

“China’s “Sputnik Moment” is what Kai-Fu Lee, author of the famous book AI Superpowers, likes to call it. Five years ago, when AlphaGo—an artificial intelligence–based program developed by DeepMind, a startup that Google acquired in 2014—defeated two of the world’s best human exponents of the board game Go, it came as an eye-opener to China and its A.I. community.

Soon after, the Chinese government launched an ambitious Next Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan to build China’s A.I. ecosystem, promising policy support, central coordination, and investments that are slated to cross the $150 billion mark by 2030. The goal: China’s A.I. industry should generate 1 trillion yuan ($160 billion) of annual revenues, with related industries crossing 10 trillion yuan ($1.6 trillion) in annual sales, by the end of this decade.”

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Commentary: China’s business ‘ecosystems’ are helping it win the global A.I. race
Only in China do technology giants, nudged by the state, orchestrate artificial intelligence efforts that aim to reshape entire industries.

China – The First Artificial Intelligence Superpower | Forbes

“China is on its way to becoming the first global superpower for Artificial Intelligence.

The People’s Republic of China has the most ambitious AI strategy of all nations and provides the most resources worldwide for its implementation.

China combines a gigantic amount of data with talent, companies, research and capital to build the world’s leading AI ecosystem.”

Source: Fabian Westerheide, AI for Humans, Rise of AI (Asgard) (enlarge)

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China – The First Artificial Intelligence Superpower
China combines a gigantic amount of data with talent, companies, research and capital to build the world’s leading AI ecosystem.

Understanding China’s AI strategy: Clues to Chinese strategic thinking on Artificial Intelligence and national security | CNAS

“In the second half of 2018, I traveled to China on four separate trips to attend major diplomatic, military, and private-sector conferences focusing on Artificial Intelligence (AI). During these trips, I participated in a series of meetings with high-ranking Chinese officials in China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, leaders of China’s military AI research organizations, government think tank experts, and corporate executives at Chinese AI companies. From these discussions – as well as my ongoing work analyzing China’s AI industry, policies, reports, and programs – I have arrived at a number of key judgments about Chinese leadership’s views, strategies, and prospects for AI as it applies to China’s economy and national security. Of course, China’s leadership in this area is a large population with diversity in its views, and any effort to generalize is inherently presumptuous and essentially guaranteed to oversimplify. However, the distance is large between prevailing views in American commentary on China’s AI efforts and what I have come to believe are the facts. I hope by stating my takeaways directly, this report will advance the assessment of this issue and be of benefit to the wider U.S. policymaking community.” – Gregory C. Allen

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Understanding China’s AI Strategy
Developing strong, pragmatic and principled national security and defense policies.

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