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What China Can Teach the U.S. About Artificial Intelligence
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What China Can Teach the U.S. About Artificial Intelligence

Visionary research is no longer the most important element of progress.

Kai-Fu Lee
The New York Times, 2018
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Since about 2010, the field of artificial intelligence (AI) has shifted from pure R&D into a phase of implementation. The United States, which has played a central role in paving the way for AI, should now pay attention to how China is addressing this challenge. With different strengths that play to different phases of technological development, each nation has the potential to learn something from the other.

Take-Aways

  • The United States has pioneered crucial basic artificial intelligence (AI) research.
  • But as AI moves from basic research to implementation, China may gain the advantage over the United States.
  • China’s strengths lie in its plentiful data, its competitive business environment and the willingness of the government to adapt public infrastructure with AI in mind.

About the Author

Kai-Fu Lee is a venture capitalist and former artificial intelligence researcher. He is chairman and chief executive of Sinovation Ventures, and the author of the A.I. Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order.

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