Xi Jinping urges China to use artificial intelligence in race for tech future
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#2Original post title: AI in China: Xi Jinping and 25-member policymaking body Politburo have a “group study” session about AI
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Xi said China must develop its own AI technology, saying it was important for economic development, social progress and global geopolitics.
“AI is a vital driving force for a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, and accelerating AI development is a strategic issue to decide whether we can grasp opportunities,” Xi was quoted by Xinhua as saying.
Xi said China must ensure that it “occupies the high ground of AI core technology” and could firmly keep the technology in its hands by leveraging “China’s massive data and huge market potential”.
He said the country should use AI to upgrade its manufacturing, adding that it could be used in China’s pursuit of a leaner and greener way of economic development.
Xi also encouraged government agencies to adopt AI.
“We need to enhance the combination of AI and social governance and develop AI systems for government services and decision-making,” Xi said, adding that public security was one field in which it could be used “in depth”.
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#3Kind of unrelated, but I remember reading this interview with President Obama and being really impressed with how much he seemed to know about AI:
https://www.wired.com/2016/10/president-obama-mit-joi-ito-in...
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#4Original post title: AI in China: Xi Jinping and 25-member policymaking body Politburo have a “group study” session about AI . Xi said China must develop its own AI technology, saying it was important for economic development, social progress and global geopolitics. “AI is a vital driving force for a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, and accelerating AI development is a strategic is…
Smart decision from China perspective, they can't be reliant on something potentially so crucial with western technologies.
But I can't help but think how it will be used for monitoring of lives of everybody. You do one misstep, government will know about it. Effectively no privacy. Compared to what it may be (and probably will), current state of China is a hippie paradise.
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#5Few things in the world scare me more than the idea of Xi Jinping with control over semiautonomous flying robocops.
Other people worry about climate change. Some religious nutcases worry about paperclip maximizers and basilisks. I worry about Robocop.
Re: Xi Jinping urges China to use artificial intelligence in race for tech future
#6Original post title: AI in China: Xi Jinping and 25-member policymaking body Politburo have a “group study” session about AI . Xi said China must develop its own AI technology, saying it was important for economic development, social progress and global geopolitics. “AI is a vital driving force for a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, and accelerating AI development is a strategic is…
Smart decision from China perspective, they can't be reliant on something potentially so crucial with western technologies. But I can't help but think how it will be used for monitoring of lives of everybody. You do one misstep, government will know about it. Effectively no privacy. Compared to what it may be (and probably will), current state of China is a hippie paradise.
These discussions reminds me how Nazis had their own physics…
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Smart decision from China perspective, they can't be reliant on something potentially so crucial with western technologies. But I can't help but think how it will be used for monitoring of lives of everybody. You do one misstep, government will know about it. Effectively no privacy. Compared to what it may be (and probably will), current state of China is a hippie paradise.
These discussions reminds me how Nazis had their own physics…
I had never heard about this befoere. Now I have:
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#8Few things in the world scare me more than the idea of Xi Jinping with control over semiautonomous flying robocops. Other people worry about climate change. Some religious nutcases worry about paperclip maximizers and basilisks. I worry about Robocop.
I assume that cheap flying drones are the weapons of the future, not just in military but police too. Small drones everywhere of all kinds. The drones would at least be semi-autonomous as having a human behind every single drone sounds expensive at scale.
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#9I think China will create an AI bubble, currently studying in Beijing and all EE and CS students I know focus all their time at either stats, ML or data mining. While I think China might have a big shot at the AI race, I don't think it's useful to have to only focus on AI because it's hot right now, they may lack progress in other fundamental fields that may lead to more important breakthrough and technological change.
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#10If you look at recent news and HN discussions, you'd be seeing some interesting patterns -
1. Tesla building its factory in Shanghai, China - "forced tech transfer, IP theft" 2. Xi pushes for AI, "it will be used for monitoring of lives of everybody" 3. 4 out of the top 10 biggest internet companies are in China - "censorship, repression, GFW"
I am wondering whether keeping 1.4 billion Chinese living with stone age tech is the real agenda of these people.