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Comment by MangoCoffee | Hacker News Reader

Is China really leading in AI? in what way that other countries is behind China

I don't know if it's a positive or a negative, but China has been focused in a very organized way on this subject for quite some time now - in a manner that other nations are just starting to do. China has also been able to, coordinately, use it's massive population as a R&D bed for training and the like.

from what i have read so far, Chinese's facial recognition is really good and probably is leading in this area.

The descriptions of the biometric technology I've heard that is deployed in Xinjiang truly sounds like a science fiction. Voice/facial/gait/etc all deployed at huge scale in production, with gigantic datasets collected under questionable conditions. I don't have any links but there are some good NPR podcasts about the subject.

How is their self-driving car effort going? It seems like a very rough but reasonable proxy for AI development in the context of war machines.

Facial recognition seems more useful for controlling a civilian population at home.

Looking at CVPR this year, China has the most number of authors [0]. Significant portion of the US and EU authors are probably Chinese students as well. I think they are doing quite well atleast in the front of training researchers.

source: [1]

[0] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E4bZC0mX0AY2X_L?format=png&name=...

[1] https://twitter.com/JaredHeinly/status/1407050613263851521

One thing that no one can compete with is the amount of data available.

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