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> Or they may fall on their face, like every other attempt at central planning has. China isn't centrally planned anymore, and hasn't been for a long time.
by ardy42 8y ago
> Or they may fall on their face, like every other attempt at central planning has.
China isn't centrally planned anymore, and hasn't been for a long time.
- mindslight 8y agoYes, and perhaps they'll even continue on that path if it is really an attractor. But there are two motte-and-bailey terms in the above comment - "ahead" and "AI". If we're only talking about the narrow scope of China being ahead in AI, with "AI" meaning predicting outliers from large populations, then that is not so worrisome! Google (et al) can simply buy the better population surveillance technology from China and apply it to their own business, as the US will still be generally ahead. But rather such talk seems to be aimed at invoking a worry that a lack of individual rights means China will succeed at a more generally useful "AI" (whatever that means), and that it will then be applied to their economy to get them "ahead" in general. This is the underlying idea I am addressing.