Beijing Wants AI To Be Made In China By 2030 (nytimes.com)

Reader cdreimer writes: According to a report on The New York Times (may be paywalled, alternative story here): "If Beijing has its way, the future of artificial intelligence will be made in China. The country laid out a development plan on Thursday to become the world leader in A.I. by 2030, aiming to surpass its rivals technologically and build a domestic industry worth almost $150 billion. Released by the State Council, the policy is a statement of intent from the top rungs of China's government: The world's second-largest economy will be investing heavily to ensure its companies, government and military leap to the front of the pack in a technology many think will one day form the basis of computing. The plan comes with China preparing a multibillion-dollar national investment initiative to support "moonshot" projects, start-ups and academic research in A.I., according to two professors who consulted with the government about the effort."

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Re:AI In China

[phantomfive]

Someone pointed out to me that the first jobs lost to computers were not unskilled jobs, they were the highly skilled jobs of people who were very, very good at math (a job that was known, not coincidentally, as a "computer"). Even today, computers can calculate the trajectory of a rocket going to the moon far more easily than they can fold laundry. So you shouldn't think that AI will first replace low-skilled jobs. One of the most common attempts at applying AI has been diagnosis by doctors. That's not a low-skill job.

The Chinese workforce becomes more and more skilled every year. They have time to adjust.