{"id":401882,"date":"2022-02-01T00:45:55","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T21:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/why-chinas-communist-approach-to-ai-is-a-blueprint-for-second-place\/"},"modified":"2022-02-01T00:45:55","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T21:45:55","slug":"why-chinas-communist-approach-to-ai-is-a-blueprint-for-second-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-chinas-communist-approach-to-ai-is-a-blueprint-for-second-place\/","title":{"rendered":"#Why China\u2019s Communist approach to AI is a blueprint for second place"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af81ba7b1937\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af81ba7b1937\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-chinas-communist-approach-to-ai-is-a-blueprint-for-second-place\/#Communism\" >Communism<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-chinas-communist-approach-to-ai-is-a-blueprint-for-second-place\/#Capitalism\" >Capitalism<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-chinas-communist-approach-to-ai-is-a-blueprint-for-second-place\/#The_long_run\" >The long run<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Why China\u2019s Communist <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roach to AI is a blueprint for second place<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-cdn.tnwcdn.com\/image?fit=796%2C417&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn0.tnwcdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F1%2Ffiles%2F2021%2F12%2FchinaAIflag.png&amp;signature=498cc702f9104af60572ee0acf568e82\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n                            <span>There are few more compelling story lines at the intersection of Wall Street and Fear Street than China\u2018s rise to global prominence in the field of artificial intelligence. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>You don\u2019t have to look very far to find a military or financial expert who believes China\u2018s AI program will some day surpass the capabilities of its democratic counterparts in Silicon Valley.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But, as we\u2019ve written before, the idea that China is in second place behind the US is a bit misleading. Sure, it\u2019s technically correct, but we\u2019re talking about a very distant second place. Currently, it would be a huge stretch to call it a race.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>China\u2018s main advantage, when it comes to AI, is <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a>ized data. But data can only take a nation so far.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>If you\u2019re trying to optimize the national healthcare program, for example, having unfettered access to the private data of billions of citizens is invaluable. However, personal information isn\u2019t exactly useful if you\u2019re training drone swarms to identify and assault soft targets. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Communism\"><\/span><span>Communism<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span>The means of production, in 1949, when the People\u2019s Republic of China was formed, was agriculture and industry. Today, it\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The advent and implementation of deep learning has lead to a revolution in China\u2018s healthcare and infrastructure. Since 2018 the PRC\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/china\/health-topics\/health-financing#:~:text=In%20China%2C%20the%20basic%20health,health%20insurance%20schemes%20in%20China.\">expanded it\u2019s national insurance<\/a> to cover nearly every citizen in China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Doctor and author Eric Topol described the impact AI\u2019s had on that growth in a recent article by Eleanor Olcott for the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/c1fe6fbf-8a87-4328-9e75-816009a07a59\">Financial Times<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>China has shifted faster than the US in medical AI from research to implementation, driven in part by the availability of high-quality data, says Topol. \u201cChina has a massive data advantage when it comes to medical AI research,\u201d he says, explaining that Chinese researchers can train AI models on data sets covering entire provinces. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In contrast, their US counterparts are restricted to working with information from single hospitals \u2014 largely operated by private businesses that keep records on internal servers.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>This paints the picture of a disjointed US medical system and, in many regards, it\u2019s true. There\u2019s little hope the US can ever hope to accomplish through capitalism what socialized medicine in a communist system can. However, there\u2019s more to prosperity than free healthcare.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Capitalism\"><\/span><span>Capitalism<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span>Where China\u2018s able to convert citizen data into internal action policies, capitalist practices have allowed US AI companies to thrive in ways their counterparts in China and the EU aren\u2019t able to.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In China, government restrictions prevent its top AI firms from prospering on the global stage in the same ways as Meta, Google, Microsoft, or Apple. And the presence of regulations limits the EU market in ways Silicon Valley doesn\u2019t. As icing on the cake, most big tech companies in the US\u00a0pay little or no taxes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This leaves US soil fertile for the development of monolithic business empires with a GDP eclipsing many modernized countries. And, with that prosperity, comes a much easier time recruiting the world\u2019s most talented scientists and developers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Toss in the fact that a significant portion of cutting-edge academic research in the US and around the globe is funded by DARPA, the Pentagon\u2019s think tank, and the communist advantage is minimized beyond the PRC\u2019s own borders.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_long_run\"><\/span><span>The long run<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span>Communism and socialized data gives the Chinese government carte blanche to develop bespoke systems for its citizens. As with any walled-garden, it\u2019s easy to share the benefits contained within. But the PRC is non-competitive when it comes to luring outside talent. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And that goes for corporate buyouts and mergers as well. While Tencent and Baidu may have an enormous presence in the global AI market, there\u2019s no reality where DeepMind gets purchased by a Chinese corp over a US one. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It\u2019s beyond the scope of this article to argue the benefits of AI-powered socialized healthcare versus having big tech run wild with user data as it does in the US. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But any conversation around the \u201cAI race\u201d should be prefaced by the knowledge that the combined resources, scientific contributions, and technological superiority shared by US academic and corporate institutions in the field of AI is more than enough to overcome the advantages given China by its policy of socialized data.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It\u2019s likely that China\u2018s approach to AI will result in revolutionary new achievements in its healthcare and infrastructure programs. But, arguably, those are areas where Canada, the Netherlands, Japan, and dozens of other countries also outperform the US.\u00a0<\/span>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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