China: Bending overtaking?
The BBC website reported on January 26, "Artificial Intelligence: Staging the Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in Britain, China and the United States. According to the statistics, from 2012 to the present, there are 1,354 enterprises in the AI field in China with a total investment of 144.8 billion yuan In 2017, the total investment in AI exceeded 62.2 billion yuan, a hundredfold increase from 600 million yuan in 2012.
Reported that the Chinese media cheer AI to China to provide 'overtaking' or even 'overtaking' opportunities to avoid the development of middle-income countries on the way trap. '
The Chinese government regards artificial intelligence as the main driving force for industrial upgrading and economic restructuring. Its policy on AI technology is to encourage, support and promote the development of AI industry in China from the second half of 2017. In July last year, the State Council of China formulated the " A new generation of artificial intelligence development plan, "a clear goal: the overall artificial intelligence technology and applications in 2020 with the world advanced level, artificial intelligence in 2025 to achieve a major breakthrough in basic theory, to become the world's leading artificial intelligence innovation center in 2030. A week ago, China released "White Paper on Artificial Intelligence Standardization", the Chinese media call 2017 the 'AI Year', and the 2018 is the key year for AI to fly from academia to industry and popularize applications.
Another set of data from one side of the evidence of China's application of AI technology in the fight for the status of the world: AI-related industries soaring wages, an estimate that doubled in the past three years, according to technology recruitment website 100offer.com statistics At present, China's AI industry, college graduates starting salary of 300,000 -600,000 yuan per year, three or five years experience of the team leader annual salary up to 1.5 million yuan.
United States: No longer the champion
Reported that China's economy published an artificial intelligence industry online roadmap shows that China's strength in the artificial intelligence technology is still fundamentally weaker than the United States, especially the chip part, most of the start-ups, and the United States more than the chip industry by Intel , NVIDIA and other large companies.Such a technical framework, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and other giants and China's Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba, the strength of the gap is self-evident.Specific to the technical level, machine learning, speech recognition, natural language processing, computer In terms of visuals, Chinese corporate finance surpassed US counterparts, especially AI applications, and showed an explosion last year, mainly in such industries as security, finance, medical care, education, retail, robotics and smart driving.
In December last year, the European think-tank Eurasia Group and the venture capital fund Sinovation published a joint survey entitled "China's AI Revolution: Understanding the Structural Advantages of Beijing," arguing that China and the United States are contending for world hegemony in the AI field.
The report argues that the ongoing overhaul of the AI overlordism between China and the United States is a two-way move that has made science and technology a major source of trade friction between the United States and the United States, still ahead of China in terms of cutting-edge hardware and talent while China's Internet users exceed the sum of Europe and the United States, Artificial intelligence innovation provides a great data fuel.
The report said that rough look at China is narrowing the gap with the United States, but a careful analysis, you can find this is not a winner-take-all contest, at different levels are in the process of grafting, hybridization, blend AI is the future, and the future Full of unpredictability.
Britain: China needs cooperation
The report also pointed out that the United Kingdom is the first country in the world to prepare for the introduction of AI technology to assist government affairs and the British government will set up a new advisory body, data ethics and innovation center, to undertake liaison and coordination with other countries in the world, Voss's AI Council British Prime Minister Theresa May announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on January 25 that Britain will become the world leader in the field of artificial intelligence (AI).
So, Britain is ready to lead the world's artificial intelligence industry? After all, the United States and China in the AI industry, hundreds of billions of dollars in investment, the British ashamed.
Beth Science and Technology correspondent Seth-Jones said Prime Minister Mayor Brevard did not brag in Davos, and many of the world's leading experts in artificial intelligence are in London and Cambridge, such as Google's Alexa, which was developed in the United Kingdom and defeated the world's Go The winner robot, Alpha GO, was also born in the UK, but the problem is that these scientists work for tech giants such as Amazon and Google, while the government is modest in R & D and application and its protection of AI assets is poor. In his opinion, what is most worrying is that China triumphs on the AI path while Britain is still embarrassed by the ethical impact brought by the AI technology and other related issues.
A week later, Teresa May will lead a British economic and trade delegation to visit China and conduct "historic visits" to Beijing and Shanghai. It is clear to see whether this visit to China by the Prime Minister will make a breakthrough in the cooperation in the AI field.
Reported that Britain's 'post-EU' era road map, China's status as a trading partner is very important.