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China Gains on the U.S. In the Artificial Intelligence Arms Race

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It's always been an international community. People in pretty much every country are doing some pretty amazing stuff. A lot of it you won't hear about if you limit yourself to press releases from venture capitalists.

But which country will be the first to bring Skynet online?

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It's always been an international community. People in pretty much every country are doing some pretty amazing stuff. A lot of it you won't hear about if you limit yourself to press releases from venture capitalists.

But which country will be the first to bring Skynet online?

Czech? http://www.moravcik.info/

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It's always been an international community. People in pretty much every country are doing some pretty amazing stuff. A lot of it you won't hear about if you limit yourself to press releases from venture capitalists.

But which country will be the first to bring Skynet online?

Normally I would say China, because it has a strong incentive to create an automated system that censors everything the leadership wants, and that manages "citizen scores", and spies on everyone at all times.

However, I wouldn't be surprised if the U.S. intelligence agencies want to do that just as much to Americans and the whole planet, but do it in secret.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

But which country will be the first to bring Skynet online?

Normally I would say China, because it has a strong incentive to create an automated system that censors everything the leadership wants, and that manages "citizen scores", and spies on everyone at all times. However, I wouldn't be surprised if the U.S. intelligence agencies want to do that just as much to Americans and the whole planet, but do it in secret.

Yes. The heavy lifting when it comes to spying on the US is already being done. Applying data analysis would be relatively trivial at this point.

Re: China Gains on the U.S. In the Artificial Intelligence Arms Race

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It's always been an international community. People in pretty much every country are doing some pretty amazing stuff. A lot of it you won't hear about if you limit yourself to press releases from venture capitalists.

All research is international, it's just a community of scientists.

It's always disappointing to see science described as if it's a sportsball game between nations.

Whoever develops the tech first, we all win. You know, as long as the new sentient AI doesn't slaughter us all in our sleep that is.

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