Reports that China's military uses Baidu's AI lead to stock plunge Web giant Baidu's stock is down 12 percent after a report linked its AI platform with the Chinese military, amid separate claims the Middle Kingdon's armed forces are sidestepping US sanctions to buy Nvidia GPUs. China is in the tech news for the wrong reasons again, this time based on local media claims that scientists …
That device predates modern processors like the Z80A(!). It was quite useful because it was easy to use and quite robust. It seemed to be designed for the sort of task that we might use a PIC for today.
The SCMP itself is an English language newspaper published in Hong Kong, its been around for a century or more. Its actually quite a good source of information about China.
The military AI is described as being able to pull in sensor data and battlefield information reported by frontline units and convert it into descriptive language or images for the chatbots, with the ultimate goal of assisting human decision-making in combat situations. It is precisely the kind of military AI project that the US government claimed it was trying to suppress ...
And if the LLM hallucinates or lies?
That is not the existential threat the US top dogs think it is, themselves falling gullible to the hype, and being more worried about narrow symbolic imagery of owning highest tech status than nitty gritty details of the vast industrial base that is required to maintain a war.
For example, US and China are close to neck and producing drones, but if you look at the supply lines that would be required to keep up that manufacturing level in a worse that COVID like interruption of trade, the US position is highly vulnerable.
I would assert that China got where it was by massive civilian goods exports which the world now depends upon, and the process directing raw resource supply lines and manufacturing mojo to itself. The US, by outsourcing and depending upon Chinese imports did the opposite,
Letting US companies sell whatever GPUs to whomever is likely to gain more for the US through through decreased trade deficit and increased manufacturing mojo and skills, that any technical gains help China. The only question would be whether China would buy much more than they need to benchmark their own R&D while they catch up.
It would be much much smarter to unilaterally impose a 50% import duty on all Chinese imports.
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