China Isn’t the AI Juggernaut the West Fears – Bloomberg

The opening scene of abrief onlinedocumentary by Chinese state-run media channelCGTN shows jaywalkers in Shenzhen getting captured on video, identifiedand then shamed publicly in real time. The report is supposed to highlight the countrysprowess in artificial intelligence, yet itreveals a lesser-known truth: Chinas AI isnt so mucha tool of world domination as a narrowly deployed means of domestic control.

On paper, the U.S. and Chinaappear neck and neck in artificial intelligence.China leads in the share of journal citationshelped by the fact that it also publishes morewhile the U.S. is far ahead in the more qualitative metric of cited conference papers, according to a recent report compiled by Stanford University.Sowhile the worlds most populous country is an AI superpower, investors and China watchers shouldnt put too much stock in the notion that its position is unassailable or that the U.S. is weaker. Bymiscalculating the others abilities, both superpowers risk overestimating their adversarys strengths and overcompensating in a way that could lead toa Cold War-style AI arms race.

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China Isn't the AI Juggernaut the West Fears - Bloomberg