US Needs Japan and Korea To Counter China Tech, Says Google ex-CEO (ft.com) 32
China's capabilities in artificial intelligence are "much closer than I thought" to catching up to the US, former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt told Nikkei Asia, stressing that America would not succeed without a "very strong partnership with our Asian friends." From a report: In an online interview, Schmidt, now chair of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, said China was closing in on the US in certain areas of AI and quantum computing -- faster than his previous estimate of "a couple of years." That's a really, really big deal," he said. Schmidt stepped down as executive chair of Google parent Alphabet in 2018. He was nominated as the commission chair in 2019 to make AI-related policy recommendations to the US president and Congress.
The commission's final report, released in March, warned that "if the United States does not act, it will probably lose its leadership position in AI to China in the next decade and become more vulnerable to a spectrum of AI-enabled threats from a host of state and non-state actors." To win the tech competition with China, the US had to maintain its lead in "strategic" areas such as AI, semiconductors, energy, quantum computing and synthetic biology, Schmidt said. And for that, he said, "we need much closer relationships with Japanese researchers, Japanese universities, Japanese government -- the same thing for South Koreans and same thing for Europeans."
The commission's final report, released in March, warned that "if the United States does not act, it will probably lose its leadership position in AI to China in the next decade and become more vulnerable to a spectrum of AI-enabled threats from a host of state and non-state actors." To win the tech competition with China, the US had to maintain its lead in "strategic" areas such as AI, semiconductors, energy, quantum computing and synthetic biology, Schmidt said. And for that, he said, "we need much closer relationships with Japanese researchers, Japanese universities, Japanese government -- the same thing for South Koreans and same thing for Europeans."
Don't forget Taiwan. (Score:5, Insightful)
But China hates it when you treat Taiwan as independent.
Re: Don't forget Taiwan. (Score:1)
Oh waa.
ex c e o.
grow a spine.
and get off your sorry a$$ and get to work solving this problem
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But also the US goes off on one every now and again. If we are going to cooperate then we are going to need enough separation that if Trump gets another term we aren't going to be tangled up in US sanctions etc.
The root problem is education ... (Score:3, Insightful)
... in all subjects without the batshit crazy goddam Evangelical right-wing nuts who are driving America into the dust.
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I look to the left and I look to the right and I don't see much rationality to be found. Starting with Google founder Eric Schmidt who is trying to turn science into nationalism.
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Ahh the big Shit speaks from the tower of evil Google. You need them because of sheer insensate greed and purposeful outsourcing and of your own capability, driven by nothing but GREED, the desire to BREAK THE BACKS of American Unions, the psychopathic desire to use and abuse, extreme over the top psychopathic GREED.
The US does not need them, the greedy insane psychopaths do because the unions are starting to gain back power and they must be destroyed to the last man women and child to facilitate MORE GREED
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I'll be honest, I'm not entirely sure what you're saying to me here.
Naaa... (Score:1)
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The power is now there, but the software needs a long way to go before the Sci-Fi version of 'AI' gets any closer. And I think most people think of that when AI is mentioned.
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A data scientist is a math nerd who can barely program in Javascript and doesn't know what an environment variable is
Yeah but they know what gradient descent means, and how to minimize a loss function.
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Mode of thinking (Score:2)
Re:Mode of thinking (Score:4, Interesting)
Welcome to the cold war.
Here in Australia we followed Trump down the rabbit hole and poked the (panda) bear. Our exports got smashed. China has repeatedly shown not to respond positively to public sabre rattling.
Diplomacy 101.
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This sort of sabre rattling is for consumption by the masses only.
US has already lost in AI. (Score:1)
In order for "AI", you need data. And China generates/obtains more data than any other country. Xi considered data as a new 5th productive factor in today's world (others being land, capital, labor, etc.). This is why China has been cracking down so much on data transfers as of late, they want to hoard the data for themselves, not to be used by others if it's true it's the new 5th productive factor. "Pundits" say it's control. It's really about keeping about hoarding the data for their own machines (ha
Your empires fucked (Score:2, Insightful)
? Why? Isn't the US a world leader in tech? (Score:1)
We know from example that when a president gets elected and decides that the other nations are getting more out of what was supposed to be a cooperative relationship with the USA than the US is getting out of it, they'll just rip up any old agreement whenever they want.
Trump has very clearly illustrated to the world that under no circumstances can the USA ever be trusted as an ally unless the relationship directly benefits the US in some immediately tangible way, since a future president can come along a
Google AI center in China (Score:2)
Schmidt is part of the problem. Didn't people helping the Nazis get tried for treason? Maybe he is trying to white-wash his legacy, now that he realizes how much he fucked up.
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Didn't people helping the Nazis get tried for treason?
No.
Where's Kimmy? (Score:2)
Japan?? South Korea?? (Score:2)
Don't you think they are both already clued into the game the USA plays; especially Japan?? They have to ask themselves if they're willing to always be subservient to the USA, and be royally stomped on when they get too close to the USA.
More importantly (Score:2)
...we need the input of China neighbors who have a much more sober and authentic view of China instead of the Pollyannish milquetoastery of the US left.