Ai Powerhouse: China's Unyielding Grip On Global Tech Supremacy
Asia
Technology
China has continued to show its prowess in innovation and technology surpassing other nations to being a leader in this sector. It is projected by 2030 that China will have integrated the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) fully, making it the only country to do so. The question that comes into play is how China has been able to be the pacesetter in utilizing AI. According to the US government research on the companies that have been able to fully produce the most accurate facial recognition technology using Artificial Intelligence, 5 of them taking the top spot are from China. A report by the United Nations' World Intellectual Property Organization showed China was leading the GenAI patent race, filing more than 38,000 between 2014 and 2023 against 6,276 filed by the United States in the same period. China has been able to install facial scanners that use AI in Railway substations in various parts of the country. China is betting big on AI making it one of its strategic goals for research and development. The huge population in China makes it possible for AI companies to use data from the population to assist in the algorithm development of AI. The world of academia and research is contributing to the AI growth in China, as more scholars are publishing AI materials and patenting AI breakthrough discoveries more than any other country. Companies such as Tencent, Baidu, and Alibaba, ByteDance, and startups such as located in China are among the world's leading companies in AI in the development of cutting-edge AI technologies such as facial recognition, autonomous driving, natural language processing. China has been able to integrate the use of AI in major sectors such as Finance, Transportation, and Health. China’s global influence and export of AI technologies to other countries make it a haven to realize more success in AI. The large investments put in place by China in AI would lead to cheaper continuous automated monitoring software that would be used by enterprises. This could further lead to a rift between China and the West as they would try to put pressure China to standardize prices on such AI technologies. The SAS Mr vice president stated that such technologies need regulation as it is difficult to audit such systems to determine how well the privacy of users of AI technologies is safeguarded. Companies and researchers are still working on the best ways to evaluate AI models, which could prove important heading into the future.
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