Too Long; Didn't Read
I recently finished reading<em> AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order</em> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai-Fu_Lee">Kai-Fu Lee</a>, a Taiwanese-born venture capitalist in technology and the former president of Google China. In it, Lee — with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University — discusses how China, for centuries playing a game of catch-up with its more technologically advanced competitors the United States and Russia, has finally caught up with them; and, very soon, will lead the race in AI. Taking narrative inspiration from when the United States and the Soviet Union began their ‘Space Race’ in the 1950s, the Soviets’ success of putting Sputnik 1 into orbit gave the United States the ‘kick up the ass’ it needed to beat the Russians to the ultimate prize, the Apollo 11 Moon landing in 1969.