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How China gets better bang for its buck than America in AI. Its investment lags far behind America’s. Its models do not (www.economist.com)
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[–] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Yeah China's VERY good at reverse engineering stuff and playing catch up. Haven't really seen them take a clear lead in developing new technology in any field though.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    That's more due to the lack of new technology these days. AI aside most modern engineering is incremental improvements to existing technology—that's the innovation everyone is doing.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    GenAI? Self-driving cars? Robots? Materials science?

    All science and innovation is incremental, but some have bigger impacts than others.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    In order:

    GenAI?

    I said "AI aside" for a reason.

    Self-driving cars?

    Fair enough, though I don't hear much about those these days.

    Robots? Materials science?

    No idea what's going on with materials science, but robots aren't exactly new, so this is incremental improvement to existing technology.

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