[ExI] Is China racing to AGI?

[John Clark]

*Scott Alexander thinks the answer is "no", he says says this : *

*"**China is a very practical country. The Chinese don’t really believe in
recursive self-improvement or superintelligence. If they did, they wouldn’t
be so blasé about the possibility of America having AIs 1-2 years more
advanced than theirs - if our models pass the superintelligence threshold
while theirs are still approaching it, then their advantage in humanoids
and drones no longer seems so impressive."*

*And after I've read the following article I'm beginning to think he might
be right, the US certainly has a huge advantage over China in the amount of
computing power it has available: *

*Is China Racing to AGI?*
<https://www.chinatalk.media/p/is-china-agi-pilled?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email>

*John K Clark    See what's on my new list at  Extropolis
<https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>*
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