{"id":82204,"date":"2018-08-30T11:02:24","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T18:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/china-is-quickly-becoming-an-ai-superpower"},"modified":"2018-08-30T11:02:24","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T18:02:24","slug":"china-is-quickly-becoming-an-ai-superpower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/china-is-quickly-becoming-an-ai-superpower","title":{"rendered":"China Is Quickly Becoming an AI Superpower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-is-quickly-becoming-an-ai-superpower.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While the White House report got modest news coverage and a mildly enthusiastic response from the AI community, this was barely a hiccup in comparison to China\u2019s clarion call. When the CCP speaks, <i>everyone<\/i> listens.<\/p>\n<p>Within a year, Chinese VC investors were pouring record sums into AI startups, surpassing the US to make up 48 percent of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/the-download\/610271\/chinas-ai-startups-scored-more-funding-than-americas-last-year\/\">AI venture funding<\/a> <i>globally.<\/i> Over the past decade, Chinese government spending on STEM research has grown by <i>double<\/i> digits year on year.<\/p>\n<p>And China\u2019s political system is set up such that local officials are incentivized to outcompete others for leadership in CCP initiatives, each striving to lure in AI companies and entrepreneurs with generous subsidies and advantageous policies.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2018\/08\/29\/china-ai-superpower\/\">https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2018\/08\/29\/china-ai-superpower\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the White House report got modest news coverage and a mildly enthusiastic response from the AI community, this was barely a hiccup in comparison to China\u2019s clarion call. When the CCP speaks, everyone listens. Within a year, Chinese VC investors were pouring record sums into AI startups, surpassing the US to make up 48 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82204","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}