A detailed report analyzing AI strategy that China will push towards the realization of "AI Dream" will be released

byLei Han

AI is now expected to be applied to various fields and it is a very hot field. Even in China where rapid economic development has increased its influence on the international community, AI is putting a great deal of effort into it. Meanwhile, a report summarizing in detail about "how much China is focusing on AI" has been announced.

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Deciphering China's AI Dream - Future of Humanity Institute
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The report is AI researcher in ChinaJeffrey DinIt was announced by Mr. Din that it took more than six months to complete this report. The content is also very readable.

◆ Current AI industry in China and AI strategy in countries other than China
In the Chinese Communist Party of the Party Congress, which was held in October 2017, Xi Jinping who is the supreme leader has announced a policy of "the development of a science and technology powerhouse China", the progress of AI technology in the process essential It is considered not to do. In July 2017State Council of People's Republic of ChinaAnnounces the "New Generation AI Development Plan" and tells China to make a major focus on the development of AI technology, and in 2030 the total production of AI core companies in China will be about 150.8 billion dollars (about 16 Trillion yen), we are planning to raise the total output of AI related companies to about 1.5 trillion dollars (about 166 trillion yen).

In the "13th Five Year Plan for National Strategy and Emerging Industry Development" announced in 2016, 69 major industries focused by the Chinese government are listed, but AI development ranked sixth overall In. As of 2016, the total output of China's AI-related enterprises was about 15 billion dollars (about 1.6 trillion yen), which is planned to grow ten times to 150 billion dollars (about 16 trillion yen) by 2020 Is launched.National Development and Reform Commission of People's Republic of China, The Ministry of Information Industry, Ministry of Information Technology and Ministry of Finance jointly announced the "Robot Industry Development Plan" from 2016 to 2020, and AI is also included in the fields focused on this plan. China said that "China's AI technology is currently behind the rest of the world," and in 2020, AI-related companies achieved 150 billion dollars (about 16 trillion yen) in total production, followed by countries in other countries, 2025 The target is to become the world's top class by expanding the scale to the total production price of 750 billion dollars (about 80 trillion yen). In 2030, we aim to achieve total production of 1.5 trillion dollars (about 166 trillion yen), becoming "the world's AI industry innovation center".

Chinese AI experts and decision makers are also looking at AI development situation in other countries. A giant Internet related company that has many game companies and application development companies as subsidiariesTencentWhenIndustrial Information Technology Department, People's Republic of China"The US is definitely a pioneer of the global AI industry at this time and introduces advanced policies at this moment." "The EU is the goal of creating a human brain in 2013"Human Brain Project"It is the brain research project that is playing the most important part in the world." "Japan has demonstrated its presence as the" robot powers "over the past 30 years, the number of robot users in the world, the robot "The UK is the world leader of ethical standards in the AI ​​system, and there is the possibility of possibly having great leadership on regulation concerning AI" announced.

At the moment, China has the recognition that "they are AI-indebted countries", "It will start from a place that catches the world as a follower of the AI ​​system," Mr. Ding said. China's AI national strategy is currently taking shape to follow countries that have laid out national strategies on AI ahead of the world, such as the United States and Canada.

bySarah Horrigan

◆ China's Approach to the AI ​​Industry
China's support for domestic companies led by the government is very active, and the amount of assistance to domestic AI related startup companies by the government-led fund (GGF) has already exceeded 1 billion dollars (about 110 billion yen) I will. The number of AI related companies supported by the government reached 69%, exceeding 51% in the US, and the period from establishment to grant award is also "average about 10 months", more than the average "about 15 months on average" in the United States It has been issued as soon as five months. In this way, China is also making it possible to rapidly grow domestic AI enterprises and to incorporate them within the party.

Even in hardware related to AI which is indispensable, China has invested over the long term. Chinese companies are aggressively acquiring semiconductor companies from the international market, and in September 2017 Chinese companies moved to acquire German semiconductor makers, but the US stopped acquiring "for security reasons" Chinese enterprises are put under severe supervision, such as putting on. However, at least in the field of supercomputers, China holds 167 supercomputers, which exceeds the United States, and is developing worldwide in line with the top of the world. Whether or not the supercomputer directly contributes to the AI ​​field is unclear at the moment, but according to Mr. Ding, "There is a possibility that supercomputer may operate AI's application".

The AI ​​program of the State Council of the People's Republic of China also focuses on gathering excellent AI talent. In "The Thousand Talent Plan" launched in 2007 to bring out talented people from around the world to China, I served as a professor at Stanford UniversityTuring AwardAward recipientAndrew · Cheechy · YaoMr. Nakamura abandoned American citizenship and became naturalized to China, and the quantum computer researcherTim BurnsWe invited Mr. Shanghai, IBM's supercomputerIBM WatsomIt was a research staff ofLiang Ji ChanI am attracting Mr. and I am doing the result.

In the "Thousand Talent Plan", the government led the rewards to outstanding researchers, but attracting talented people by private enterprises in China is also active. Many Chinese enterprises are active in headhunting to engineers of overseas companies and independently employ excellent engineers. Mr. Ding says that this is not a top-down policy by the government, individual companies are greedy to pursue their own interests, Mr. Ding said that in China, government-led and private led, with excellent approach to talent It seems to be gathering.

byKhanh Nguyen

◆ Current status of AI strategy in China
Mr. Din points out that in the report, processors and chips with high initial cost and time consuming process are becoming bottlenecks in China's AI industry. The global market share of semiconductor production in China in 2015 is 4%, not far from 50% in the US. Regarding the GPU that is best suited for AI algorithm training, China is particularly dependent on international companies in other countries. Of the top 10 chipmakers in the United States, four companies specialize in manufacturing GPUs, while none of China's chipmakers' top ten companies have one company specializing in manufacturing GPUs.

Meanwhile, China is good at it that there is abundant amount of data necessary for machine learning. Compared with the EU, the United States, Japan etc. Relatively less privacy regulation in China, the Chinese technology companies can collect huge amount of data and use it for research through the government. AI companies in China can do machine learning using these vast amounts of data, but the disadvantage is that due to the closed nature of China's Internet, the fact that data depends on domestic platforms, There is a possibility of causing a slight bias on the data as the teaching material.

In AI 's algorithm development, Mr. Ding is analyzing that "China has not kept pace with innovative developed countries." Chinese researchers can replicate world-leading algorithms quickly, but they are lagging behind the United States and the UK in fundamental research on algorithms, and they lack the ability to develop innovative algorithms themselves And that.

byjayneandd

◆ How will AI develop in China in the future
Finally Mr. Ding is analyzing guidelines for China's AI development. As China aims to be the center of the world in the AI ​​industry, it is essential to take an approach to AI regulation. The State Council of the People 's Republic of China stipulates laws and regulations concerning AI' s ethical norms and security management by 2025, and in 2030 it is striving to introduce more comprehensive regulation and ethical normative policy, but at present It seems that the details above are not considered. However, in November 2017China Institute of Information and Communications TechnologyHosted a seminar on AI law, representatives of the Supreme People's Court and chief scientist of Tencent,TsinghuaLiaison Dean of the University and others discussed and discussed the AI's ethical regulations. For ethics regulations and laws of the AI ​​in the future, we come up with the attitude to continue to actively consider.

As China maintains its strategic advantage in terms of national security by utilizing AI in the military field,Chinese People's Liberation ArmyWe are taking a policy to adopt AI for unmanned vehicles. As far as China's academic papers on military diversion of AI are abstract, there seems to be abstract content, but it is said that China is trying to create weapons with AI applied and to combat the influence of the US military in the western Pacific Thing.

Of course, the economic benefits that AI brings are reflected in China as a very big appeal. With the development of AI technology, China's GDP rise is expected to be 26%McKinsey Global InstituteAlso supports this view. According to McKinsey Global Research Institute, 51% of the work in China can be automated by AI and it seems that the level of productivity can be greatly improved by national integration of AI system. However, as a result of progress in automation by AI, it is the lowest income low-skilled workers who are at high risk of losing their work. Mr. Ding says that with the development of the AI ​​industry, the Chinese government needs to enrich care for society as a whole.

byTimes Asi

China already built the largest face recognition database in the world, and the local monitoring systemTo strengthenIt is noteworthy that the affinity of AI technology and social governance system is high. However, with the development of AI technology, there is a possibility that international tensions may increase, "In order to establish peaceful use of AI technology and establishment of ethical norms, it is necessary to evaluate China's AI dream with a clear eye "Mr. Ding is summarizing.