Two pictures tell you why China may outpace the United States in the field of artificial intelligence

For a long time, the United States has been leading science and technology for a long time, but there are good reasons to believe that with the growing popularity of artificial intelligence, Native American engineers will soon have to compete with another global giant, China.

On December 6, the New York-based research consultancy Eurasia Group and China's Innovation Workshop jointly released a report outlining China's rapid development in artificial intelligence in the past few years. The Eurasian Group's Paul Triolo and Innovation Works , Kai-Fu Lee wrote that while China is lagging behind the United States in terms of engineering talent and building effective automatic AI, the hardware aspects of robots, autonomous vehicles and other physical machines are also at a disadvantage, but in fact the ' The monopoly has become inevitable. It has arrived.

The report said that China's artificial intelligence technology will soon rival the United States, and may even surpass the United States.For example, one of China's main advantages to the United States is to have access to a large amount of data, which is linked to China's huge population.China owns 800 million Internet users, most of whom have access to mobile devices, according to data from QuestMobile, a Chinese research firm, that China has about three times the number of active Internet devices in the United States.

The author of the report writes: 'The size of the available dataset is one of the most important sources of competitive advantage in AI, which requires smart people to tune algorithms, but when it comes to applications, the key is data: who owns it first, who Have more.

Two trends highlight that Chinese tech companies can more easily collect data than the US For example, studies show that Chinese use cell phones to pay more frequently than Americans, for example, because Alipay's Alipay app is chatting with Tencent With the popularity of WeChat's payment services, Chinese consumers will spend about US $ 8 trillion on mobile payments in 2017, about 50 times that of Americans, and because cash-rich technology giants and cheap labor-powered food takeout applications The surge in numbers has placed Chinese consumers 10 times as many orders on cellphones as Americans.

In the meantime, in the field of artificial intelligence, Chinese manufacturers are deploying robots faster, which collect their own data and, through a virtuous circle, can be used to further refine plant automation.

But the data is only part of the story, and shortly after Google's AlphaGo defeated Chinese champion Ke Jie in a series of Go matches in July of this year, China announced the "Next-Generation AI Development Plan." Requiring private companies and universities to accept artificial intelligence, 2030 as the world's leading artificial intelligence innovation center.

The author believes that a good record of China's successful implementation of these top-down directives means that this goal should be taken seriously, and Beijing announced in 2010 that China will become the world leader in the use of HSR. , Which owns 60% of the world's high-speed rail market and China announced its' Volunteering and Innovation Program 'in 2014. They wrote:' Today there are 8,000 business incubators in China, up from 1,400 in 2014. We can expect that China AI policy will have a similar trajectory. '

Articles compiled from Quartz.

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