China has won AI battle with U.S., Pentagon's ex-software chief says

[SonOfSun]

China has won AI battle with U.S., Pentagon's ex-software chief says

China has won the artificial intelligence battle with the United States and is heading towards global dominance because of its technological advances, the Pentagon's former software chief told the Financial Times.

www.reuters.com

How long? Not long, because what you reap is what you sow.

 

[C3D]

That article made me sad when I read it over the weekend but does not tell me anything I did not know already.

 

[GOPerfect]

Mainly because the elected elite suck and too many Americans are lazy.

 

[libertysnake]

It's hard to tell, but they're "probably" talking about things like Machine Learning. China is probably out pacing us because they're willing to go places that would obviously be ethically horrible on US soil. It's not quite the same as "Intelligence" but rather a set of rules for how to detect patterns, which then use the patterns found to find new patterns. It's a feedback loop.

With the internet, we've given these "feedback" loops a nearly unlimited amount of curated data to use. We tag our pictures with our names. We give tons of information about ourselves in our profiles. We give away our location data to tons of apps. All of this can be used to find patterns about us and others like us, and be used against us.

That being said, I have already seen examples of data mining on places like Reddit that have well established APIs in order to doxx people. People are using it for unethical purposes, even in the states -- it's just that China is probably playing with a much bigger fire and a much bigger data lake analysis wise since they force their citizens into giving the info, willingly or not.

A few ways to stop this come to mind:

• Economically cripple China via trade embargos, if our politicians even have the balls to do that. If the rate is 20 years from now, we need to slow that down and build our own industry up -- even if it is extremely painful to us, it gives us a fighting chance.
• We need solid laws around data and protecting privacy of people so it cannot be used in the way China wants against us, or even our own government against us.
• We do not allow any cooperation with China when it comes to technology.

This is just the painful reality that comes to mind, but I haven't given it deep thought on how to stop this machine now that it is started.

 

[redtail]

 

[SonOfSun]

It's hard to tell, but they're "probably" talking about things like Machine Learning. China is probably out pacing us because they're willing to go places that would obviously be ethically horrible on US soil. It's not quite the same as "Intelligence" but rather a set of rules for how to detect patterns, which then use the patterns found to find new patterns. It's a feedback loop.

These things are inevitable, it's a when and not if thing. The question is who do I want to be dominant. America or China? I take the same position as Edward Teller on the development of nuclear weapons:

 

[libertysnake]

These things are inevitable, it's a when and not if thing. The question is who do I want to be dominant. America or China? I take the same position as Edward Teller on the development of nuclear weapons:

So then what is your suggestion for either slowing down China, or speeding up our development?