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When China Rules the World by Jaqcues and AI Superpowers by Kai-Fu Lee are both very good.

Very likely. If someone is more interested in the current state of AI on a national level a very good book is AI Superpowers by Kai Fu Lee.

Data is the new Oil and USA is still clinging to the old oil while China has AI as number 1 priority.

I am currently reading AI Superpowers https://www.amazon.com/AI-Superpowers-China-Silicon-Valley/d...

which I can really recommend it has given me a completely new appreciation for the term competition.

Its not even that, Pompeo already talked about a quasi US version of the great firewall called the Clean network.
Its kinda weird seeing the US being afraid of competition. Kinda had hoped that the scenario Kai Fu Lee wrote about in his book "AI superpowers" wouldn't happen that the tech world would bifurcate into the East vs the West.

PBS recently had a good show about the AI revolution, saying it's similar to the industrial revolution. They show Embark AI/trucking in SF, and interview an unsuspecting truck driver: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/announcement/frontline-in...

Excerpt about tearing society apart:

"I believe about 50 percent of jobs will be somewhat or extremely threatened by AI in the next 15 years or so,” says Kai-Fu Lee, who has written a book called AI Superpowers. He fears that the rise of AI will contribute to another alarming trend: the growing inequality in earnings. “AI will exacerbate that and I think it will tear the society apart,” Kai-Fu Lee warns, “because the rich will have just too much, and those who are have-nots will have perhaps very little way of digging themselves out of the hole."

It also mentions China's heavy investment in AI.

Interesting read. The mention of the book “The Fifth Generation” by Edward A. Feigenbaum and Pamela McCorduck (that I read in 1983, and was totally into at the time) made me think of Kai-Fu Lee's new book "AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order" that markets the idea that China will win the AI war because they have more data and entrepreneurs and established companies who go deep with developing online to offline businesses (invest heavily in supporting physical infrastructure).

History is not kind the the Japanese 5th generation project. My hunch is that Kai-fu's predictions will be more accurate than Edward's and Pamela's predictions.

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