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China's Huawei Has Big Ambitions To Weaken the US Grip On AI Leadership (technologyreview.com)
MIT Technology reports of how Huawei's technology road map, especially in the field of artificial intelligence, is progressing more rapidly than any other business in the world. "The [Chinese] government and private sector approach is to build companies that compete across the full tech stack," says Samm Sacks, who specializes in cybersecurity and China at New America, a Washington think tank. "That's what Huawei is doing." Huawei's AI strategy "will also raise a host of new security issues," the report notes. "The company's technological ubiquity, and the fact that Chinese companies are ultimately answerable to their government, are big reasons why the U.S. views Huawei as an unprecedented national security threat." From the report: In an exclusive interview with MIT Technology Review, Xu Wenwei, director of the Huawei board and the company's chief strategy and marketing officer, touted the scope of its AI plans. He also defended the company's record on security. And he promised that Huawei would seek to engage with the rest of the world to address emerging risks and threats posed by AI. Xu (who uses the Western name William Xu) said that Huawei plans to increase its investments in AI and integrate it throughout the company to "build a full-stack AI portfolio." Since Huawei is a private firm, it's tricky to quantify its technology investments. But officials from the company said last year that it planned to more than double annual R&D spending to between $15 billion and $20 billion. This could catapult the company to between fifth and second place in worldwide spending on R&D. According to its website, some 80,000 employees, or 45% of Huawei's workforce, are involved in R&D.
Machine-learning services are a new source of risk, since they can be exploited by hackers, and the data used to train such services may contain private information. The use of AI algorithms also makes systems more complex and opaque, which means security auditing is more challenging. As part of an effort to reassure doubters, Xu promised that Huawei would release a code of AI principles in April. This will amount to a promise that the company will seek to protect user data and ensure security. Xu also said Huawei wants to collaborate with its international competitors, which would include the likes of Google and Amazon, to ensure that the technology is developed responsibly. It is, however, unclear whether Huawei might allow its AI services to be audited by a third party, as it has done with its hardware. In other Huawei-related news, Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou is suing Canada for violating her constitutional rights when border officials detained and interrogated her for hours. "Meng, the chief financial officer of the Chinese telecom firm Huawei, was arrested by Canadian officials in December at the request of the United States," reports NPR. "The U.S. had sought Meng's arrest on charges of fraud, arguing Huawei had violated U.S. sanctions on Iran."
Machine-learning services are a new source of risk, since they can be exploited by hackers, and the data used to train such services may contain private information. The use of AI algorithms also makes systems more complex and opaque, which means security auditing is more challenging. As part of an effort to reassure doubters, Xu promised that Huawei would release a code of AI principles in April. This will amount to a promise that the company will seek to protect user data and ensure security. Xu also said Huawei wants to collaborate with its international competitors, which would include the likes of Google and Amazon, to ensure that the technology is developed responsibly. It is, however, unclear whether Huawei might allow its AI services to be audited by a third party, as it has done with its hardware. In other Huawei-related news, Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou is suing Canada for violating her constitutional rights when border officials detained and interrogated her for hours. "Meng, the chief financial officer of the Chinese telecom firm Huawei, was arrested by Canadian officials in December at the request of the United States," reports NPR. "The U.S. had sought Meng's arrest on charges of fraud, arguing Huawei had violated U.S. sanctions on Iran."
Good luck to them because here in the US we have the best AIs!
For example, in the 3 letter agency where I work in Palo Alto, we have the best AIs, tremendous AIs, great Ais and there doing a great job!
The background file for my national security clearance got stolen by the Chinese a few years ago That contained a lot more information than the credit reports that Uncle Sam requested from all three bureaus. :)
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https://technode.com/2017/08/07/huawei-and-tencent-data-war/
Funny old world, innit....
"That's what Huawei's Chi-Com leadership is doing."
Makes me want to listen to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Maybe China will finally show that it's societal structure can provide technological innovations on their own.
Since inventing paper they have not done much except copy or questionably iterate.
The US sees China as an unprecedented national security threat because they have adopted Steve Bannon's worldview which is driving China to become more of problem.
Technode, lol. Dogeater propaganda site.
AI best goal, mimic the insect brain, which is more than good enough for any specific task and when you combine different AIs, in combination they achieve greater outcomes. However the problem with AI it is dead easy to poison, inject false data and it will fail every time. You definitely want to isolate them from uncontrolled interaction, so effectively for the AI delusion, you need an AI to feed data to the AI and another AI to control and monitor the AI but then those other AIs can also be data poisoned.
The real goal of AI is a psychopathic sickness, control and monitor the general population for precrime persecution. Alphabet taught theirs to hack form protection methods, that are mean to keep bots out. They also want to create fake people en masse to saturate the internet with corporate propaganda, a planet with 7 billion people and 7 trillion fake AI identities to drown out the 7 billion on the internet.
The government of China has a whole lot more in common with Alphabet/Google than should be acceptable in any real democracy, perhaps that is why they do so well in the US, not a real democracy.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/byron-york-house-dems-send-message-impeachment-is-on
...about China's progress. Now that it's become clear they have overtaken the US all we've gotten over the last couple of years is continual scare mongering propaganda being spewed at us 24/7 about how China is plotting to destroy western society.
America, you had a good run. How about passing the baton without being little cry baby bitches?
Of course I'm joking. No way in shit you're not going down without dragging us all with you.
The irony is that you don't know what you're talking about in the slightest, but you keep blathering like anyone cares what your ridiculous uneducated reductionist fantacist traitor-supporting idiot ass says as if anyone ever did.
The main problem with Chinese trying to do AI is that they have to translate the AI into crude primitive pictographs which comprise their "alphabet". Of course it's not really an alphabet; it is more like ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. Every word, every thought, has to have its own unique pictograph. It gets too unwieldy to be efficent, and requires 20 or 30 times the processing power compared to normal text.
https://youtu.be/OaKbZW0pqkM
...Brits march all over Kingdom Come chasing people who knew the land and thus fucked with their mind via snipers and hit-and-run. Actual battles were relatively rare.
Let Huawei/China go right ahead and blow their wad on over-hyped shit.
Table-ized A.I.
Here is a report that helped me understand what is going on in China's AI ecosystem from an economic and military perspective
https://www.cnas.org/publications/reports/understanding-chinas-ai-strategy
Funny that, guess who got to write history.
The only one that makes a stable generic driver for my graphics cards
They have a short window to pull ahead before the U.S. wakes up and nukes them.
Apparently boatloads of American cash from the US trade deficit combined with systematic spying of every other company and government of the world really paid off.
Huawei's "big ambitions" were not without controversy. The director in the interview conveniently neglected to mention that they are under investigation for wire fraud, money laundering, and evading international sanctions against Iran, have been caught red-handed engaging in industrial espionage, and has a bonus system for employees who engage in theft of US trade secrets.
Eternity: will that be smoking, or non-smoking? I Corinthians 6:9-10
Seriously, America has been coasting since reagan. Back when we had the economy, we poured loads of money into R&D. Since 1980, America's GOP have continue to gut R&D, esp. basic R&D. Now, China is about to force us to change or lose.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
I say Let them.
What they call "AI" is actually "Big Data"
There was a lot of advance in comuter vision and similar algorithm but AI? what AI?
Screw the AI. How much blockchain technology are they investing in?
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Perhaps western countries should treat foreign citizens by the rules of their mother country.
Perhaps she would be less quick to complain about human rights in that case.
Funny how the rich in China recognise the need to have a GTFO location and have chosen Canada.
But when it suits them, they have the weight of the state behind them calling the shots.
Perhaps the liberal west needs to treat those foreign citizens with the same level of respect and decency as they are used to back home.