Posted on 10/23/2023 7:29:39 PM PDT by FarCenter
Believing that artificial intelligence could make China a greater strategic threat, the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden has set its sights on holding back its rival's AI development.
Recent measures have included restricting U.S. investors from putting money into Chinese AI companies, downgrading scholarly exchanges and cutting off supplies of specialized computer chips. Officials are also discussing limiting access by Chinese companies to U.S. cloud computing services that might provide indirect access to AI technologies.
Washington is working to extend its "great firewall" against the Chinese AI threat to allies such as Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, which previously focused more on doing business with Beijing than on geopolitics. Indeed, at their three-way summit with Biden at Camp David in August, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol affirmed they would stand with Washington.
Can Washington really stop Chinese AI development? This is highly doubtful. China created its industrial AI policy seven years ago, long before the U.S. government came up with any kind of AI overview.
While the ChatGPT platform from U.S. company OpenAI has been a focus of global attention regarding generative AI over the past year, Chinese software developers have been hard at work too.
In August, Beijing authorized the public release of new generative AI services from Tencent, Baidu, Huawei Technologies, Alibaba Group, JD.com, ByteDance, iFlytek and Kuaishou Technology. Overnight, there are now more major technology companies in China offering their own advanced chatbots than in the U.S.
More importantly, Beijing is already engaged in embedding AI throughout China's social infrastructure. Chatbots now generate calls from public service centers. Public parking lots are managed by smart systems without a need for human attendants. Hospital and other public facilities have their own AI systems to deal with the public.
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China does not care about consequences. They don’t stop to ask if they should do this.
Maybe AI will figure out China is the bad guy and take them over.
As the article points out, the AI systems may take over functions of the bureaucratic state, but at least so far they don’t demand bribes and take graft, so the people prefer them over party functionaries.
Assumimg AI is not programmed to just send those bribes to the oligarchs, you’re probably right on that. If you’re going to be subjugated, it may as well be an honest broker.
There is that risk, for sure.
We don’t know the fine line between intelligent machine and machine with intelligence. In my mind, it will be one code line too many that makes the difference.
The leader in AI is the American company Nvidia.
Intel and IBM are far behind them.
China is probably 20 years behind.
You’re talking mainly about hardware, not software.
Bfl
AI software is especially linked to hardware. Without the hardware you just can’t do the AI nearly as well.
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