AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee. You should read this.

AI superpowers is a great intro to what artificial intelligence is. Like knowing about blockchain technology, you need to understand what is happening here.

Why?

First, In 15 years – an estimated 40 to 50% of the jobs we have today will be lost to artificial intelligence.

Second, our lawmakers and the media are clueless about this – as are most Americans. Here’s a great example of our ignorance and how the media and politics add to it. In 2016, Obama issued a White House paper on artificial intelligence. But it got no play in the media. It was released the same day we were smothered with Trump’s Access Hollywood tapes. So yes, you need to take control and get informed.

Third, China is putting massive investment into artificial intelligence while lately the US has not.

Fourth, China gathers a ton more data than we do in the US. Data is the feedstock for artificial intelligence. Here in the US we are trying to stop that feedstock because of privacy issues.