Monday, April 15, 2019

AI is Not a Race

TechRepublic's article "How China tried and failed to win the AI race" in the early of this month describes a situation where both powerful countries are now entering into a AI war. 

I agree with most of the stances in terms of national AI development plans/initiatives, AI associated chips, AI-driven research efforts, workforces, fundings, and regulations. But it is not really a race at all. China and US are standing in the different stage of the technologies of Artificial Intelligence. They kicked off from the different starting points. US accumulated very fundamental research works since the born of AI. The developments of these researches have been very solid though it has been frozen to grow for couples of years. China instead woke up to join and contributed to the development of AI researches in the late years. It is unrealistic and harsh to compare both nations together. 

The article is right about interdependency. It should be great to see US and China each advances in certain areas of this technology. Competition and collaboration should come together to push the edge of AI. We should keep the door open to mutual interdependencies for the goods of AI deployments, as well as be cautious to set up ethic rules to make AI-human interactions right. 

AI should not become a weapon to drag two nations into a war. 



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