China Plans Big AI and Computing Buildup (bloomberg.com) 18
China aims to grow the country's computing power by more than a third in less than three years, a move set to benefit local suppliers and boost technology self-reliance as US sanctions pressure domestic industry. From a report: The world's second-largest economy is targeting more than 300 exaflops of computing capacity across its tech sector by 2025 from 220 this year, according to a joint statement from several agencies including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The goal marks Beijing's latest attempt to construct digital infrastructure to spur a sluggish economy. China also plans to build an additional 20 smart computing centers in two years. Bigger optical networks and more advanced data storage will be installed in the years until 2025, the regulators said. The additional computational power will support manufacturing, education, finance, transportation, healthcare and energy, they added.
China's grandiose plans (Score:2)
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It's not funny at all that China has a shitload of population and is having increasing trouble feeding them. Historically this has been a bad recipe.
Re: China's grandiose plans (Score:2)
I'm not talking about trying to cause China to collapse. I'm concerned that they are now essentially the only major military power in their region and facing hard choices.
Hats off to them... (Score:1)
While the US is focusing on offshoring and H-1Bs, China is working on tilling the soil and planting for a solid harvest for something in the future. The R&D the government as well as companies like Xerox PARC did in the 60s to early 1980s got us many decades of advances, but now that many companies are just focused on doing as little as possible and adding nothing but revenue streams, cool technologies in the US all but vanished. What do we have in the last five years in the US as something that has c
China is investing in the future are we doing it? (Score:3)
China has over 4x the population of the US. They are about the same size in geography, Have access to resources and a temperate envrionment. Chinese relegation as a 3rd world country had historically been due to their own failures to invest, grow and adapt to the modern world, and were blinded by their past success as world power that they had failed to grow and realize that the barbarians are out pacing them.
The United States is slipping into that type of thinking, we are not trying to compete with China, we are just trying to convince everyone that USA #1. China isn't playing any more unfairly than the U.S. has, but the U.S. has given up putting effort into competing with the new conditions.
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This is not at all my perception. And it's not just my perception. WIPO's "Most Innovative" ranking puts the US at #2 (after Switzerland), with China rising but still just at #11 (between France and Denmark). The US specifically ranks #1 in the following categories:
Global corporate R&D investors
Venture capital investors
Quality of universities
Quality and i
Who is going to use it? (Score:2)
You aren't allowed to do anything cool on there. If you even mistakenly say or do something the government doesn't like you're done.
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Who is going to use it?
Seems like a dumb question but I'll bite. The government, particularly the CCP and it's members, will be the primary beneficiaries of AI who will use it to control their populous while continuing their gradual campaign of expansion, coercion and control.
We know they want to take Taiwan but I wouldn't be surprised if there is already a long-term plan for absorbing North Korea and by extension, South Korea. They will keep expanding their claims on "territorial waters" and land through questionable means until
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Command economy (Score:2)
China wasted a gigantic amount of money and resources on real estate that largely sits unoccupied. Now they will build data centers that will remain mostly idle in order to generate false demand for internal tech products.
Too bad they'll never talk to Japan (Score:2)
Japan tried a government-planned AI and Computing buildup called Fifth Generation Computer Systems [wikipedia.org]. This started in 1982, and was supposed to revolutionize computing.
It didn't, and it probably contributed in a small way to the global stall in the Japanese economy afterwards.
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So a use for ghost cities? (Score:2)