Say this about Communist leadership in China; they are obsessed with defeating or destroying us in every competitive category. If that means they have to steal the IP of our tech and entertainment companies or spend three times as much as we are in Artificial Intelligence, they are more than ready, willing, and able to do it.
Alexandr Wang, the 26-year-old CEO of Scale AI (and billionaire), warned a select group of politicians on Capital Hill that China is all-in on using AI as a means to disrupt warfare and take leaps forward in any ways necessary to allow them to become the world’s foremost superpower.
Essentially, he said this is a race for AI dominance, and China not only knows that they are trying to beaut us to the punch. “The country that is able to most rapidly and effectively integrate new technology into warfighting wins. If we don’t win on AI, we risk ceding global influence, technology leadership, and democracy to strategic adversaries like China. ”The Chinese Communist Party deeply understands the potential for AI to disrupt warfare and is investing to heavily capitalize on the opportunity,
Mr. Wang is a genius and his bona fides back that up. He dropped out of MIT at age 19 to start his company which is now valued at over $7 billion. He said it was easy for him to see that China was ahead of the game back in 2019.
“China was making rapid progress developing AI technologies like facial recognition and computer vision and using these for domestic surveillance and repression. China is investing the full power of its industrial base for AI. This year, they’re on track to spend roughly three times the U.S. government on AI. The PLA is also heavily investing in AI-enabled autonomous drone swarms, adaptive radar systems, autonomous vehicles, and China has launched over 79 large language models since 2020.”
Wang testified that AI is China’s Apollo Project. (The Apollo Project was the NASA program that sent astronauts to the Moon for the first time. In other words, it was a project of top importance and something a nation is all in on.)
Wang did not just deliver depressing news — he cited several reasons why the U.S. has the edge right now in AI. One reason is that the U.S. is where the world’s most talented AI scientists want to be. The other reason we are in the lead is because of data. “When it comes to data, I actually also agree that we have a potential very powerful advantage here, specifically when it pertains to military implementations. In America, we have the largest fleet of military hardware in the world.”
According to Wang, the U.S. generates 22 terabytes of data that can be harnessed to train AI and give the U.S. a huge lead each day.
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