Xi Jinping urges China to use artificial intelligence in race for tech future

Post by Lio » Fri, Nov 02, 2018, 1:24 PM UTC

ElBarto wrote: post #30

jerf wrote: post #27

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Are you sure? We're already getting stories over here in the West where people are struggling with the results AI gives them when applied to people because the results are basically Wrongthink, and are trying to figure out how to get the AIs to conform better to their ideology and preconceived notions of what the AIs should be outputting. It's not a terribly far trip from there to Deutsche Physik or Lysenkoism, excep…

This has nothing to do with Deutsche Physik but it fits the narrative of some people to associate China with Nazi Germany or any other dystopian regime.

Post by Chris_Chambers » Fri, Nov 02, 2018, 1:33 PM UTC

threatofrain wrote: post #8

skrebbel wrote: post #5

Few 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.

Post by Existenceblinks » Fri, Nov 02, 2018, 1:42 PM UTC

orbifold wrote: post #13

threatofrain wrote: post #8

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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.

Luckily drones still have significant limitations on achievable flight time. Some of which are dictated by the laws of physics. So for the foreseeable future there won’t be any bird sized drones chasing you down. Military drones on the other hand are much larger and expensive.

Post by ElBarto » Fri, Nov 02, 2018, 1:45 PM UTC

Lio wrote: post #41

ElBarto wrote: post #30

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This has nothing to do with Deutsche Physik but it fits the narrative of some people to associate China with Nazi Germany or any other dystopian regime.

China lacks democracy, routinely "disapears" its own promenant people, censors the internet and has the death penatly for the purpose of organ harvesting for the rich[1]. In what way is China not already run by a dystopian regime? [1] https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/true-stories/the...

Post by wycs » Fri, Nov 02, 2018, 1:47 PM UTC

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #42

klrr wrote: post #9

I 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 chang…

We’ve been here before with Japan in the 80s, and it led to an extended 2nd AI winter. China’s efforts are much larger than Japan’s were, and they have a bigger housing bubble to go along with that to boot. It is interesting to see how history repeats itself.