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China’s AI Awakening

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Re: China’s AI Awakening

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Thb, most of the interesting work I've seen has come out of Silicon Valley. What breakthroughs have come from China?

The article says that China is investing heavily in AI now, in reaction to the breakthroughs happening elsewhere. It suggests that breakthroughs over the next decade will be coming from China.

Re: China’s AI Awakening

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Thb, most of the interesting work I've seen has come out of Silicon Valley. What breakthroughs have come from China?

Much of the interesting work is done by Chinese nationals, many of whom feel the startup field in the US is slanted towards white people, so they go back to China and take their knowledge with them.

US research institutes are top-notch, but our casual racism and xenophobia are killing us. Not that the Chinese aren't also racist and xenophobic, but the pendulum of power is definitely swinging back across the Pacific.

Re: China’s AI Awakening

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Thb, most of the interesting work I've seen has come out of Silicon Valley. What breakthroughs have come from China?

Can you give some examples of these interesting work?

The one posted yesterday from OpenAI. Hierarchical learning. Also, DeepMind's relational NN. I can dig up others from memor after caffiene.

DeepMind is at Google which is a Silicon Valley co.

True about Canada, but salaries in Canada do not support retention of talent, so most end up in SV in the long run or get acquired by SV companies.

Re: China’s AI Awakening

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Thb, most of the interesting work I've seen has come out of Silicon Valley. What breakthroughs have come from China?

Much of the interesting work is done by Chinese nationals, many of whom feel the startup field in the US is slanted towards white people, so they go back to China and take their knowledge with them. US research institutes are top-notch, but our casual racism and xenophobia are killing us. Not that the Chinese aren't also racist and xenophobic, but the pendulum of power is definitely swinging back across the Pacific.

That is a good point but China is a dictatorship and a censoring anti-democracy regime. I can't imagine putting up with that either.

Re: China’s AI Awakening

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Thb, most of the interesting work I've seen has come out of Silicon Valley. What breakthroughs have come from China?

Baidu & Deep Speech?

That was actually developed in Silicon Valley though, as that's where Baidu's AI lab is.

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