Some provocative thoughts on artificial intelligence, from a new Eurasia Group-Sinovation Ventures white paper on the future of AI in China: China has 3 times the number of mobile phone users as the United States, places 10 times more online food orders, and does 50 times the US volume in mobile payments. If AI is the most strategically important technology of the 21stcentury, and huge data sets are the key to mastering AI, will Beijing have an insurmountable advantage?
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By Willis SparksDecember 08, 2017
Willis Sparks
Willis Sparks is a senior editor for GZERO Daily. He is also a Director in the Global Macro practice at Eurasia Group, where he has worked since 2005. He has made speeches on international politics on every continent except Antarctica. Willis holds degrees from Brown University, the Juilliard School, Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris. He also holds an honorary degree from the Moscow Art Theatre School. A native of Macon, Georgia, Willis has worked as a stuntman at New York's Metropolitan Opera. As a child, he declined an opportunity to spend an afternoon riding the Great American Scream Machine, a rollercoaster, with Ronald McDonald, for money. He has never regretted that decision.
