Wie China im KI-Wettlauf die Nase vorn haben könnte
https://www.ft.com/content/9f6c2f35-933f-4e14-85f1-1192488dda4e
Wie China im KI-Wettlauf die Nase vorn haben könnte
https://www.ft.com/content/9f6c2f35-933f-4e14-85f1-1192488dda4e
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Writing in the opinion section of the *Financial Times*, Research Fellow [Dan Wang](https://www.hoover.org/profiles/dan-wang) argues that China’s advantages in energy production and the practical application of artificial intelligence (AI) systems could allow that nation to pull ahead in its AI competition with the United States. While noting that the US retains a lead in the field currently, Wang says every “month brings fresh indications that China is catching up with the US on the development of artificial intelligence.” Wang maintains that “AI is not a simple ‘race’” because AI development must be followed by deployment to achieve practical aims. The piece closes with a discussion of how the Trump administration’s plan to allow chipmakers Nvidia and AMD to sell to China would likely brighten “China’s AI development prospects.”
It’s paywalled but I’ll assume OP’s comment contains the whole article.
I’m skeptical that China will be able to catch up without readily available access to the most advanced chips. They can only circumvent sanctions to a certain extent and the physical design and fabrication of advanced semiconductors is the hardest part, it’s easier to mess around with power generation and software development (especially when you can steal intellectual property) than it is to create literally the most complex things humanity has ever created on the scale of atoms. China has made progress in lower nanometer semiconductor fabrication but I don’t see them being able to (at least faster than the US) both develop/advance their manufacturing processes at the same time as they’re attempting to implement novel AI applications on a massive scale.