2021 BRN Discussion, page-774

http://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/05/china-to-focus-on-frontier-tech-from-chips-to-quantum-computing.html
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China listed AI and brain science as among the “frontier technologies” it plans to focus on in the next five years and beyond. The country is seeking to increase R&D in advanced technologies to boost its domestic offerings and better compete with the U.S., according to its latest five-year development plan.

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• In the AI arena, China is focusing on developing chips for AI applications, along with open source algorithms. It's also emphasizing machine learning in decision-making and other areas.
• This comes after former Google chairman Eric Schmidt, who chairs the U.S. government's National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, said China is only one to two years behind the U.S. in developing AI technologies, adding that China is “relentlessly focused."
• "Brain science" refers to “brain-inspired computing” and “brain-computer fusion technology,” though the plan didn't specify what these would entail, according to CNBC.
• They could be similar to technology under development at Elon Musk's Neuralink, his neural tech company that's working on devices to sync the human brain with AI.
• China's remaining frontier technologies included quantum information, integrated circuits or semiconductors, genomics and biotechnology, clinical medicine and health, and deep space, deep earth, deep-sea, and polar research.

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