Thanks. While hardly dispositive, my experience from AI Track II dialogues suggests there are more skeptics than believers. At least for now, for all of the reasons suggested in the Platonic debate.
Makes me wonder: what nation are we not thinking enough about, that is going to find the right spot in the middle of the skeptic-believer continuum and accelerate progress towards advanced AI, simply because they're much less wedded to dogmatic beliefs about AI's future?
"Alibaba just committed over 380 billion RMB (~US$52.4 billion) in the next three years to build cloud and AI hardware infrastructure. That’s more than their total capital expenditure from 2015 to 2024 combined"
there's substantive evidence to suggest Alibaba's public numbers are fictitious. Not a point made w/ conviction.
In the meantime US scientists - either citizens or residents- in all fields are looking for opportunities overseas because the conditions at home are deteriorating by the minute, while others who were meant to come here have changed their minds.
Reducing this to a game between China and the USA and thinking of the USA as potentially the only powerhouse, fails to consider how the United States has pushed allies with highly educated and brilliant minds away, and how those allies have the ability and capacity to become a third vector in the race.
Thanks. While hardly dispositive, my experience from AI Track II dialogues suggests there are more skeptics than believers. At least for now, for all of the reasons suggested in the Platonic debate.
Makes me wonder: what nation are we not thinking enough about, that is going to find the right spot in the middle of the skeptic-believer continuum and accelerate progress towards advanced AI, simply because they're much less wedded to dogmatic beliefs about AI's future?
"Alibaba just committed over 380 billion RMB (~US$52.4 billion) in the next three years to build cloud and AI hardware infrastructure. That’s more than their total capital expenditure from 2015 to 2024 combined"
there's substantive evidence to suggest Alibaba's public numbers are fictitious. Not a point made w/ conviction.
In the meantime US scientists - either citizens or residents- in all fields are looking for opportunities overseas because the conditions at home are deteriorating by the minute, while others who were meant to come here have changed their minds.
Reducing this to a game between China and the USA and thinking of the USA as potentially the only powerhouse, fails to consider how the United States has pushed allies with highly educated and brilliant minds away, and how those allies have the ability and capacity to become a third vector in the race.