China quickly recovers in the artificial intelligence race, benefited by a more pragmatic vision than Americans
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The United States is still in front of the artificial intelligence race, with the huge computing power and the best processors in the world. But China is approaching quickly and has an advantage in the way he sees the use of the most efficient applications in the future.
In an article in the Financial Times it is explained that every month new signs appear that it is not much until China reaches the US in the field of artificial intelligence.
The US has, in the race of artificial intelligence technologies, a huge computing power, due to very high -performance processors, such as Nvidia, the company worth over 4,000 billion. America also has big plans for the development of data centers infrastructure.
However, how computing power is not the only component of artificial intelligence. China has other structural advantages in the competition that is still “sharp”, especially after it has become clear that in China you can make good applications, at costs far below those in America.
Here we are not just talking about a trivial race, but it is important what you do with technology, after you have perfected it. The analysis of the Financial Times is explained an important difference of perspective between the US and China, on how the AI can be used. It turns out that the Chinese are more pragmatic.
Silicon Valley hardships have talked about the idea of ”superintelligence”, as if you could create “a god in a box”. Beijing, on the other hand, treated the AI less than a purpose in the supernatural sphere and more than a technology with many practical uses. Chinese decision makers and factors are constantly talking about a tool meant to improve existing industries.
China has been excelling for years to industrial production and because of AI it can become even more efficient in the manufacture of electronics, cars, drones, but also military equipment.
China is moving quickly and due to engineers who develop AI technologies: many have learned a job in the US and decided to return to China and because of Trump administration policies that imposed China restrictions and threatens new commercial taxes.
The Chinese also have the advantage of electricity, databases consume huge amounts of electricity, and here, China has a large advantage over the US, with 32 nuclear reactors in construction, while the US does not work on any.
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