AI Superpowers: China’s Sputnik Moment (Part 2)

Editor’s Note: This will be another long day on this website. I’ve been reading Kai-Fu Lee’s AI Super-Powers: China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order which our man Andrew Yang has brought to my attention and want to start breaking it down chapter by chapter.

Sometimes we quietly work on insoluble problems for years.

There are also eureka moments when a big breakthrough happens. In such a way, a number of separate problems that you have been working on for years are solved in a new paradigm, in which you can start to make rapid progress. Such has been the last month or so of this blog. The posts are coming at such a rapid rate now because so many of these separate projects have suddenly converged.

It’s not about even about Yang 2020 which is fun to analyze. Andrew Yang is nothing but an evangelist of what is going on right now in the world of artificial intelligence, robotics and automation. We’re on track to lose 40 percent to 50 percent of jobs over the next 15 years as an exciting new AI technology – deep learning, or “narrow AI” – hits the application stage throughout the global economy.

Kai-Fu Lee doesn’t mince words. He calls the application of “deep learning” to the global economy nothing less than the harnessing of the electricity of the 21st century.