According to The Verge, Schmidt said the United States is at a very high risk of lagging behind in AI artificial intelligence. He predicts that the United States will still have the leading strength in the next five years, but then the mainland will catch up very fast.
Schmidt said at a technology summit held by the national security think tank CNAS that he mentioned that the mainland will use AI technology for commercial and military purposes and that the mainland has plans to become a global AI leader by 2030.
The mainland government announced a new generation of artificial intelligence development plan (GF # 35) in July 2017. Schmidt said he had read the report and will catch up with the United States by 2020 if it is planned by the mainland government, 2025 Year beyond the United States, by 2030 will dominate the global AI industry
The AI leaders in the United States include Google, Facebook, Microsoft, IBM, OpenAI, etc. The mainland includes Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent have joined the AI research and development ranks. Schmidt pointed out that Google held a variety of programs in the competition, the top few usually Won by the mainland engineers.
Schmidt mentioned that some U.S. policies will hinder the attraction of overseas AI talent, noting that Iran, for example, has very prominent high-tech talent who wants to work with Alphabet or Google instead of going to other countries.
He mentioned that AI would also have very practical uses in the military, such as the visual system, and would not need to send a whistle if it could train a computer for monitoring. After all, the computer would never fall asleep.
Schmidt thinks AI's artificial intelligence is still a long way from reaching human standards or surpassing human intelligence, and he is more optimistic about Alphabet's chances than other companies.He says, if someone can invent some kind of common wisdom, then Must be the Alphabet's DeepMind.
Many have previously thought that it will take decades for a computer to beat a Go master, but DeepMind has met its targets early in the year and the company is also using AI for medical purposes such as cancer detection or to lower the electricity bill at the Google Data Center. Said that it took only two weeks for DeepMind to plan out an improvement plan that would save 15% on energy use, more than the world's best engineers.
For some people in the industry who think AI needs more regulation, Schmidt thinks the issue is still too early to say. What is more important now is that the government should work together with civilians to develop AI artificial intelligence strategies so that in the future, the United States will be able to develop in AI In a leading position, he emphasized in particular that this technology was originally invented by the Americans, but the Mainland is indeed very good in this respect.