China's Race for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technology

[yantong1980]

For me, AI is like double edge sword, what I talkin' about not usual sword, but new kind of sword-with double edges. Today AI learn from their creator, but in future mankind will rely almost everything even learn something from AI. Perhaps AI will decide anything, but hope not faith of humankind, I hope these smart creator realize that. Hope China know that too. I am not fear of tech advance, but some leading people in this subject also have concern like that.

 

[JSCh]

China scores at AI competition
By Zhu Shenshen | 00:01 UTC+8 July 20, 2017

CHINA scored highly in an ImageNet competition, one of the top Artificial Intelligence contests, for object detection and visual recognition, Shanghai Daily learned yesterday.

During the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge, a team from online security firm 360 and the National University of Singapore won for object location. Another team comprising Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology and Imperial College London won the object detection contest. ImageNet attracted 25 organizations from seven countries.

 

[AndrewJin]

China scores at AI competition
By Zhu Shenshen | 00:01 UTC+8 July 20, 2017

CHINA scored highly in an ImageNet competition, one of the top Artificial Intelligence contests, for object detection and visual recognition, Shanghai Daily learned yesterday.

During the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge, a team from online security firm 360 and the National University of Singapore won for object location. Another team comprising Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology and Imperial College London won the object detection contest. ImageNet attracted 25 organizations from seven countries.

Where is Supa Powa 2012?

 

[cirr]

Plan to put China in AI industry vanguard

2017-07-21 08:58

China Daily Editor: Li Yahui

Delighted children and adults watch the performance of a robot at the 2017 China Beijing International High-Tech Expo on June 8. (Photo/China Daily)

China aims to build a 1 trillion yuan ($147.9 billion) artificial intelligence industry by 2030, as the country scrambles to lead the world in research and application of the cutting-edge technology, a new plan said on Thursday.

The national AI development plan, published on the State Council's website, detailed a three-step strategy to achieve the ambitious goal. It highlights China's determination to achieve breakthroughs in core AI technologies and accelerate its application in the manufacturing, service, agriculture and other sectors.

To achieve the goal, the AI industry in China is expected to exceed 150 billion yuan in 2020, putting the country on par with leading powers in the technology and its application. The current market size for China's AI industry was not disclosed.

The plan said more effort will be made to achieve breakthroughs in fundamental research and technologies. By 2025, China aims to more than double the 2020 target of its AI industry to 400 billion yuan. AI will be a major driver of industrial upgrading, widely used in manufacturing, smart city plans, agriculture, defense and other sectors.

Xiang Yang, an AI expert at the China Center for Information Industry Development, said the ambitious plan will motivate companies and universities to step up their research and development in AI.

"It will have roughly the same impact on industry as the government's Made in China 2025 initiative has had on the manufacturing sector," Xiang said.

Consultancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers forecasts that AI-related industries will boost China's GDP by as much as 26 percent in 2030.

Zhang Yaqin, president of Baidu, said China is highly likely to outpace the United States in the application of AI, as local companies scramble to experiment with new ideas and benefit from the country's huge user base.

The company plans to mass-produce its driverless vehicles within four years.

Gao Qiqi, a professor at East China University of Political Science and Law, said China is making rapid progress in AI and produces more science and technology papers and applies for more patents than other countries.

Anand Rao, an AI consultant at PwC, said initially North America would have faster productivity gains from AI than China because of its mature infrastructure. "But China will begin to pull ahead of the US in AI in 10 years after it catches up on both relevant technologies and expertise," Rao said.

http://www.ecns.cn/business/2017/07-21/266166.shtml

@Bussard Ramjet India?

 

[onebyone]

The world’s second-largest economy will be investing heavily to ensure its companies, government and military leap to the front of the pack in a technology many think will one day form the basis of computing.

By
PAUL MOZUR
The New York Times
SHANGHAI — If Beijing has its way, the future of artificial intelligence will be made in China.

The country laid out a development plan Thursday to become the world leader in AI by 2030, aiming to surpass its rivals technologically and build a domestic industry worth almost $150 billion.
Released by the State Council, the policy is a statement of intent from the top rungs of China’s government: The world’s second-largest economy will be investing heavily to ensure its companies, government and military leap to the front of the pack in a technology many think will one day form the basis of computing.


The plan comes with China preparing a multibillion-dollar national investment initiative to support “moonshot” projects, startups and academic research in AI, according to two professors who consulted with the government about the effort.

The United States, meanwhile, has cut back on science funding. In budget proposals, the Trump administration has suggested slashing resources for a number of agencies that have traditionally backed research in AI. Other cuts, to areas like high-performance computing, would affect the development of the tools that make AI work.

China’s capabilities, especially in advanced and new technologies, have long lagged those of its better-developed neighbors as well as Europe and the U.S. But a multiple-decade industrial policy to help it catch up has paid dividends.

The two professors who consulted with the government on AI both said that the 2016 defeat of Lee Se-dol, a South Korean master of the board game Go, by Google’s AlphaGo had a profound impact on politicians in China. Then in May, Google brought AlphaGo to China, where it defeated the world’s top-ranked player, Ke Jie of China. Live video coverage of the event was blocked at the last minute in China.


As a sort of Sputnik moment for China, the professors said, the event paved the way for a new flow of funds into the discipline.

China’s ambitions for AI range from the anodyne to the dystopian, according to the new plan. It calls for support for everything from agriculture and medicine to manufacturing. Yet it also calls for the technology to work in concert with the country’s homeland security and surveillance efforts.

http://www.seattletimes.com/business/beijing-wants-ai-to-be-made-in-china-by-2030/

 

[S10]

Maybe in the next few decades we'll start blending humans with machines.

 

[kankan326]

The CCP is far-sighted, practical doer. "Will" means "do it from now till that day", not "say it now, who knows what happens till that day". China's government is much more qualified than almost all elected governments.

 

[My-Analogous]

The world’s second-largest economy will be investing heavily to ensure its companies, government and military leap to the front of the pack in a technology many think will one day form the basis of computing.

By
PAUL MOZUR
The New York Times
SHANGHAI — If Beijing has its way, the future of artificial intelligence will be made in China.

The country laid out a development plan Thursday to become the world leader in AI by 2030, aiming to surpass its rivals technologically and build a domestic industry worth almost $150 billion.
Released by the State Council, the policy is a statement of intent from the top rungs of China’s government: The world’s second-largest economy will be investing heavily to ensure its companies, government and military leap to the front of the pack in a technology many think will one day form the basis of computing.


The plan comes with China preparing a multibillion-dollar national investment initiative to support “moonshot” projects, startups and academic research in AI, according to two professors who consulted with the government about the effort.

The United States, meanwhile, has cut back on science funding. In budget proposals, the Trump administration has suggested slashing resources for a number of agencies that have traditionally backed research in AI. Other cuts, to areas like high-performance computing, would affect the development of the tools that make AI work.

China’s capabilities, especially in advanced and new technologies, have long lagged those of its better-developed neighbors as well as Europe and the U.S. But a multiple-decade industrial policy to help it catch up has paid dividends.

The two professors who consulted with the government on AI both said that the 2016 defeat of Lee Se-dol, a South Korean master of the board game Go, by Google’s AlphaGo had a profound impact on politicians in China. Then in May, Google brought AlphaGo to China, where it defeated the world’s top-ranked player, Ke Jie of China. Live video coverage of the event was blocked at the last minute in China.


As a sort of Sputnik moment for China, the professors said, the event paved the way for a new flow of funds into the discipline.

China’s ambitions for AI range from the anodyne to the dystopian, according to the new plan. It calls for support for everything from agriculture and medicine to manufacturing. Yet it also calls for the technology to work in concert with the country’s homeland security and surveillance efforts.

http://www.seattletimes.com/business/beijing-wants-ai-to-be-made-in-china-by-2030/

For non IT people. Here AI means Artificial Intelligence.

 

[ito]

What AI?...even a small machine learning algorithm is also an AI. How complex the AI is more important than saying AI.

 

[Chhatrapati]

 

[Hrk19]

say,i gotta ask,
how close is china or the us or any country to getting this advanced of an ai?

 

[ZeEa5KPul]

say,i gotta ask,
how close is china or the us or any country to getting this advanced of an ai?

Nowhere near. What's shown in that clip is an example of what's called "strong AI," and no one has any idea how to even go about starting to build such a thing.

 

[Hrk19]

Nowhere near. What's shown in that clip is an example of what's called "strong AI," and no one has any idea how to even go about starting to build such a thing.

would exascale computing help?
i mean its computing as fast as the human brain so wouldnt that help?
plus china did say their exascale computer was almost finished.

 

[ZeEa5KPul]

would exascale computing help?
i mean its computing as fast as the human brain so wouldnt that help?
plus china did say their exascale computer was almost finished.

It's not a matter of hardware, although capable hardware is undoubtedly necessary. It's that no one has the first clue what human cognition is and how it's implemented. And it's not a matter of getting the "network diagram" for the brain, either. There are creatures (nematodes) for which the entire connectome (neural map) is known, and we still don't know why they do things as simple as turning left.

That's a simple organism on which we can perform all manner of invasive experiments, and we're still in near total ignorance of the answers to even such simple questions about it.

 

[Hrk19]

It's not a matter of hardware, although capable hardware is undoubtedly necessary. It's that no one has the first clue what human cognition is and how it's implemented. And it's not a matter of getting the "network diagram" for the brain, either. There are creatures (nematodes) for which the entire connectome (neural map) is known, and we still don't know why they do things as simple as turning left.

That's a simple organism on which we can perform all manner of invasive experiments, and we're still in near total ignorance of the answers to even such simple questions about it.

would it be possible to get some idea on how to make that kind of AI if we manage to simulate an entire human brain?