… AI worlds are tightly connected By Viola Zhou Global Dispatch This essay was first published in our Global Dispatch newsletter. Sign up here to get it straight to your inbox. The tech race between the U.S. and China seems to heat up daily. …
… Saudi Arabia expects AI to contribute around 12% of GDP by 2030, while the UAE aims to generate roughly $96 billion from AI over the same period. …
… AI anxiety is also fueled by a growing gap between China’s narrative of technological progress and the reality many workers experience on the ground, where competition is intensifying even as the country races ahead in global tech development, said Xing, who researches the sociology of technology i… …
… Plus, the AI race is going to be won on physical AI — robotics , autonomous systems, embodied intelligence — which requires hardware. Hardware needs supply chains. Supply chains, today, run through China. …
… The longer we wait, the harder it gets to change course. Global Dispatch What AI race? China and U.S. AI worlds are tightly connected Despite geopolitical tensions, Chinese and American AI industries remain intertwined through research networks, collaboration, and a shared cultural identity. …
… Fundamentally, we are able to experience really good technology on the AI side of things because of a lot of the public data that we have in open-source data sets or public forums, like Wikipedia and Reddit. We just don’t have that in the robotics domain or rather in the general physical AI domain. …
… By Kinling Lo Global Dispatch What AI race? China and U.S. AI worlds are tightly connected Despite geopolitical tensions, Chinese and American AI industries remain intertwined through research networks, collaboration, and a shared cultural identity. …
… The U.S. military is using the most advanced AI it has ever used in warfare, with analysts predicting that AI is a “game-changer” and will increasingly be embedded into militaries everywhere. How reliable can AI systems that consumers also use to answer banal questions everyday be? …
… Between the extremes are those trying to think through where the gains and losses of AI will fall. In realist circles, it has become common to speak of AI in the language of an arms race , a comfortingly familiar frame that pits the West against a rising China . …
… These founders have deep technical skills and the work ethic to sleep in the office and take calls on weekends, she told me at the booth. “We should be building a new Chinese AI mafia in Silicon Valley,” Chen said. “ AI is going to become our home turf.” The AI carnival continued into the night acr… …