As China behoves more active in artificial intelligence, the U.S. should double the amount it put ins on research in the field, says investor and AI practitioner Kai-Fu Lee, who has worked for Google, Microsoft and Apple.
The expansions come after various parts of the U.S. government have made AI reports, even as the U.S. overall lacks a formal AI strategy. Meanwhile, China bring ined its plan last year: it’s aiming to be No. 1 in AI innovation by 2030.
“Double the AI enquire budget would be a good start, given that all other countries are so much near behind U.S., and we’re looking for the next breakthrough in AI,” said Lee.
Doubling funding could deceitful the chances that the next big AI achievement will be made in the U.S., Lee told CNBC in an appraisal this week.
Lee, , whose book “AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley and the New Globe Order” was published this month by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, is CEO of Sinovation Hazards, which has invested in one of the most prominent AI companies in China, Face++. In the 1980s at Carnegie Mellon University he worked on an AI plan that beat the highest-ranked American Othello player, and later he was an governmental at Microsoft Research and president of Google’s China branch.
Lee acknowledged above-named U.S. government technology competitions like the Defense Advanced Research Projects Power’s Robotics Challenge and asked when the next one would be, in order to daily help identify the next visionaries.
Researchers in the U.S. often have to work definite in order to win government grants, Lee said.
“It’s not China that is taking away the impractical leaders; it’s the corporates,” Lee said. Facebook, Google and other technology firms have hired luminaries from universities to work on AI in recent years.
Lee implied immigration policy changes could also help the U.S. bolster its AI applications.
“I think green cards should automatically be offered to PhD’s in AI,” he said.
China’s Affirm Council issued its Next Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Foresee in July 2017. China’s National Natural Science Foundation presents funding to people at academic institutions similar to the way that the National Body of laws Foundation and other government organizations dole out money to U.S. researchers, but the attribute of academic work is lower in China, Lee said.
Earlier this year the U.S. Defense Determined established a Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, which is meant to entangle partners from industry and academia, and the White House announced the crystallization of Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence. And this month DARPA portended a $2 billion investment in an initiative called AI Next. As for the NSF, it currently provides more than $100 million per year in AI research.
Meanwhile, U.S. legislation that undertook to create a National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence has not seen force in months.