[ExI] Is China racing to AGI?

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 29/11/2025 23:17, spike wrote:
>
> *From:*extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On 
> Behalf Of *John Clark via extropy-chat *…*
>
> *And after I've read the following article I'm beginning to think he 
> might be right, the US certainly has a _huge_ advantageover 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 Clar**k*
>
> **
>
> *So what if… our EVs have the optionof a high-power GPU as a cabin 
> heater, replacing the nichrome coil?  Then if we had some computing 
> task requiring enormous resources, such as Bitcoin mining,then every 
> time we turn on the car heater in our EVs, that cranks up and starts 
> calculating.*
>

This gives me two notions:
1) The availability of millions of vehicles with 'computer heating' 
would mean a vast network of computing nodes could be made, on which 
some sort of distributed AI might be able to be run. This strikes me as 
much more useful than mining bitcoins.

2) The chinese, with so many more people and cars, could use this to 
narrow the computing power gap between themselves and the US, or even 
reverse it:
"As of 2024, China had over 30 million electric cars, accounting for 
almost two-thirds of global electric vehicle sales, while the United 
States had approximately 7.04 million electric cars sold since 2010." 
(iea.org + Wikipedia)

This supposes that they could get hold of the necessary hardware.

-- 
Ben

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