{"id":115889,"date":"2020-11-15T04:22:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T12:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/china-has-caught-up-to-u-s-in-ai-says-ai-expert-kai-fu-lee"},"modified":"2020-11-15T04:22:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T12:22:20","slug":"china-has-caught-up-to-u-s-in-ai-says-ai-expert-kai-fu-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/china-has-caught-up-to-u-s-in-ai-says-ai-expert-kai-fu-lee","title":{"rendered":"China Has Caught Up To U.S. In AI, Says AI Expert Kai-Fu Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-has-caught-up-to-u-s-in-ai-says-ai-expert-kai-fu-lee.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Skeptical. But, wonder if will trigger major funding boost if true.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Any credible list of influential books about tech from the last decade would include <em>AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order <\/em>by Kai-Fu Lee. Considered the world\u2019s foremost authority on artificial intelligence, Taipei-born Lee got an early start, writing a pioneering speech-recognition program while a student at Carnegie Mellon in the 1980s. He later had a career in China and the U.S. at Apple, Microsoft, Silicon Graphics and Google, where he was president of Google China. Now based in Beijing, Lee runs a venture capital firm called Sinovation, which focuses on AI investments. The interview with Lee took place (virtually) in early October.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Forbes Asia: AI Superpowers made you a global business star. Why did you write the book?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kai-Fu Lee: China has\u2014thanks to data, AI, and the entrepreneur ecosystem\u2014rapidly evolved from a copycat into a true innovator. It currently co-leads artificial intelligence with the United States. When AI Superpowers came out in 2018, I think it was a bit surprising to people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skeptical. But, wonder if will trigger major funding boost if true. Any credible list of influential books about tech from the last decade would include AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee. Considered the world\u2019s foremost authority on artificial intelligence, Taipei-born Lee got an early start, writing a pioneering [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,45,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-finance","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}