China literally made A.I. a priority 5 years ago and has been laser focused on developing that technology as well as it's power grid.
The thing that cracks me up is how cacs act like the Chinese are cheating somehow. They announce what they're going to do and they just do it.
The difference is that while the Chinese government controls capital, in America capital controls the government. Here, technology isn't developed with the aim of improving people's lives and thus maintaining the government's legitimacy, it's developed to colonize everything and extract as much money as humanly possible in a consistent basis. By installing corporate bootlickers into government, these guys have ensured that they can buy up more and more competition, and eliminate any foreign or domestic competition. If it doesn't make someone money, it's not a priority over here. Both parties agree on this.
I'm genuinely curious to see what China is going to do with A.I. I already know what's going to happen here. They'll use it to accelerate unemployment rates.
Cab drivers
Talk therapists
Artists
Musicians
Porters
Factory workers
Janitors
Truck drivers
Programmers
Engineers
Customer support
Tech support
All of these will be replaced with robots or AI agents. There will be a smaller and smaller tax base to draw money from which can be used to subsidize big business's mistakes and product development. And because it's them in government, they won't raise taxes on themselves. The result will be technological stagnation.
People don't have enough money to buy the products or subscriptions, so then what's the point in trying to innovate. The government doesn't have tax revenue to insulate you from your risks, so what's the point in taking them?
The answer to this impending car crash is very simple: break up big tech, break up the military industrial complex, tax billionaires, use that revenue to fund a public jobs program and social safety net.
By breaking up the companies you force them to compete and innovate.
By having a jobs guarantee, you can get people to work building up the country's infrastructure. By having a social safety net that includes increased federal minimum wage, cheap education, and cheap child care, you give people more money in their pockets to spend on starting their own businesses/apps as well as coming up with new theories that can change the state of technology.
This won't happen because money has completely infested our political system and ruined our two parties who refuse to agree on development goals in a bipartisan way. We're in a canoe being rowed by a schizophrenic whose left arm rows one way and his right arm rows the opposite. Unless workers take control of the economy back through unions and vote out these corporate bootlickers, China won't just catch up, they'll be THE place to go to for the latest technology. They will have come full circle back to being a technological superpower that is several years ahead of the west and they'll have done that shyt using the playbook that America used for the new deal. This is the equivalent of a Nas fan going on tour with him, outshining him when he does his opening set, and then the crowd fukking LEAVES when nas shows up to the stage and plays less than a quarter of his set list.