AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
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"Kai-Fu Lee believes China will be the next tech-innovation superpower and in AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order, he explains why. Taiwan-born Lee is perfectly positioned for the task."—New York Magazine
In this thought-provoking book, Lee argues powerfully that because of the unprecedented developments in AI, dramatic changes will be happening much sooner than many of us expected. Indeed, as the US-Sino AI competition begins to heat up, Lee urges the US and China to both accept and to embrace the great responsibilities that come with significant technological power.
Most experts already say that AI will have a devastating impact on blue-collar jobs. But Lee predicts that Chinese and American AI will have a strong impact on white-collar jobs as well. Is universal basic income the solution? In Lee’s opinion, probably not. But he provides a clear description of which jobs will be affected and how soon, which jobs can be enhanced with AI, and most importantly, how we can provide solutions to some of the most profound changes in the future of human history.
"Kai-Fu Lee believes China will be the next tech-innovation superpower and in AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order, he explains why. Taiwan-born Lee is perfectly positioned for the task."—New York Magazine
In this thought-provoking book, Lee argues powerfully that because of the unprecedented developments in AI, dramatic changes will be happening much sooner than many of us expected. Indeed, as the US-Sino AI competition begins to heat up, Lee urges the US and China to both accept and to embrace the great responsibilities that come with significant technological power.
Most experts already say that AI will have a devastating impact on blue-collar jobs. But Lee predicts that Chinese and American AI will have a strong impact on white-collar jobs as well. Is universal basic income the solution? In Lee’s opinion, probably not. But he provides a clear description of which jobs will be affected and how soon, which jobs can be enhanced with AI, and most importantly, how we can provide solutions to some of the most profound changes in the future of human history.
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PFS Book Club-16th March 2024
Today Aruna reviewed the book "AI Superpowers-China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order" by Kai-Fu Lee[ aka PFS Book Club's Kung-Fu 😉].
Aruna started the discussion with the history of AI mentioning Alan Turing and the Turing test. Alan Turing believed that intelligent machines would surpass humans and passing the Turing test would validate when this actually becomes a reality. Aruna went on to talk about how the researches in AI over the years led to the creation of Rule based engines , neural networks and finally to Deep learning models.
Aruna mentioned how the author has described the advantage China has over US in these AI times. Though the AI discoveries began in US; now is the implementation age of AI. And implementation is China's forte. Today's deep learning algorithms require enormous amount of data which China has in abundance. She said that Chinese companies are derided as imitators or copycats.The way Chinese entrepenuers are ready to get their hands dirty in the real world and the way Chinese startups want to own the entire chain of value creation and are not limited to a specific platform only gives China that advantage over US. In short, China's strength in implementation, data, startups owning the overall value ecosystem and government support will lead China to overtake US in this AI world.
Next, Aruna talked about 4 important AI applications:
1. Internet AI: AI powering Google, Youtube ,Amazon recommendations and personalization
2. Business AI:Primarily AI for businesses says Banks(eg:-Fraud detection platforms) and medicine(eg:- Cancer detecting applications)
3. Perception AI: Through this AI will be embedded in our environment in a such a way that we will no longer be able to think of AI as a separate entity.
4. Autonomous AI: When systems and machines lead without or with minimal human oversight.
Finally Aruna went on to describe Kai's predictions of the jobs that will survive and those that will thrive in the future. She mentioned there is a 4 quadrant map provided by the author on the jobs that are in the Safe zone vs those in danger zone. Routine jobs will be replaced by AI and those that involve human creativity and strategic thinking will thrive. Afterall AI optimizes and enables ; human mind creates, recreates and reinvents.
Post the review, there was an interesting discussion of how starting from the discovery of fire, steam engine, industrial age and automation, technology and now AI has raised questions of how humans would survive and find new ways of earning. Vijaya mam made us all ponder about human intelligence-is AI accelerating our intelligence curve or are we regressing in our intellectual advancement? Kruthika and Surbhi raised the point of how the AI narrative has changed as the transformation from Predictive to Generative AI has happened. Manish defended that machines even in the current form can lead to incremental advances but the exponential advances can only be made by humans.
Amidst all these engaging discussions and points, we concluded the session with the hope that human creativity and resilience will still find a way to overcome this disruption and reinvent to find newer ways of earning.
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