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US, China Take the Lead in Race For AI: UN (reuters.com)
China and the United States are ahead of the global competition to dominate artificial intelligence (AI), according to a study by the U.N. World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) published on Thursday. From a report: The study found U.S. tech giant IBM had by far the biggest AI patent portfolio, with 8,920 patents, ahead of Microsoft with 5,930 and a group of mainly Japanese tech conglomerates. China accounted for 17 of the top 20 academic institutions involved in patenting AI and was particularly strong in the fast growing area of "deep learning" - a machine-learning technique that includes speech recognition systems.
"The U.S. and China obviously have stolen a lead. They're out in front in this area, in terms of numbers of applications, and in scientific publications," WIPO Director-General Francis Gurry told a news conference. U.S. President Donald Trump has accused China of stealing American innovations and technology and has slapped trade tariffs on $234 billion of Chinese goods to punish Beijing.
"The U.S. and China obviously have stolen a lead. They're out in front in this area, in terms of numbers of applications, and in scientific publications," WIPO Director-General Francis Gurry told a news conference. U.S. President Donald Trump has accused China of stealing American innovations and technology and has slapped trade tariffs on $234 billion of Chinese goods to punish Beijing.
They hold the most patents. That's all. We're still a far cry from answering the all important question: What does "AI" mean anyway?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
The UN goal is to help facilitate peace. Scarcity causes conflict and wars. Because the Orphans, Homeless refugees are this way because of this.
To help manage Scarcity we need to know who may have more and less of something, where the UN can help facilitate helping those with less of something to trade with countries you may have more.
While Water, Food, and Raw Materials are often big on the list, Intellectual Property and Technology are important as well. Knowing that the United States and China are leaders in such technology, a smaller country who may need such services may go to the UN to help them find a partner to work with them on getting such services. Where payments and negotiation needs to be taken place.
Now for some countries they really don't like China or the United States. However if given both they may choose one over the other.
That is why the UN is figuring out this stuff. Because if some unknown country who doesn't have access to modern AI research, say in crop management, and they are suffering from a food shortage, while their neighbors who have access to this technology and are doing better... Just may be enough to cause a war.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
So the Chinese and the US will be out of work first.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
I said it was its goal. Not necessarily that they are good at it, or always succeed.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Patent-count is not a measure of leadership. It is a measure of ego, greed and lack of ethics. In that, China may indeed have overtaken the US.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
AI used to mean AGI, until some people found they desperately wanted to give a false impression and invented "AGI", so they could continue to call things that have absolutely no insight or intelligence "AI".
The utterly dishonest claim that AI will eventually become AGI is just part of the scam being perpetrated here. There is no indication AGI will ever be possible and quite a few that it may not be.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Because nationalism and regionalism lead to such a better world. I've got a few world wars (the Thirty Years War, the Napoleonic Wars, WWI and WWII) to show where that road lead. The whole point of economic entanglement is to make general war between the Great Powers unthinkable. A review of Churchill's post-war speech on a united Europe, not to mention his spearheading of the Anglo-American alliance (via the Atlantic Charter in 1941), should be studied by anyone wanting to understand the precise underpinnings of what we call globalism.
Can it be improved? To be sure. No institution, agreement or alliance should ever be permitted to float on on its own momentum, but neither should it just simply be rejected because of some suboptimal results. These set of agreements created the conditions for a degree of economic growth and general improvement of the people living in those countries never before seen in world history.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.