People in pretty much every country are doing some pretty amazing stuff. A lot of it you won't hear about if you limit yourself to press releases from venture capitalists.
>People in pretty much every country are doing some pretty amazing stuff. A lot of it you won't hear about if you limit yourself
I agree, and this is why I am unworried about the recent moves to cut government research funding in the US. There are plenty of other countries with great research institutions.
Look what happened when Bush pushed out most of the stem cell research -- research moved to Singapore and China. But the world still benefited, just not US companies.
Extremely impressive website with lots of fascinating examples. I assume the website was generated by the real-human-brain algorithm with the given task of "maximum impress site visitor". This will change everything!
I ran into it on some Reddit stream and thought it was funny as he claims AGI and he is everywhere asking/pleading for buyers. In the Netherlands we had Sloot[0] who claimed a similar impossible feat in another field. Well Sloot was actually claiming something 'more impossible'; I do think strong AI will happen but we are far off while Sloot claimed something impossible (Kolmogorov complexity is a good book about that). Sloot was believed by many and invested in. Also by people who should know better.
Normally I would say China, because it has a strong incentive to create an automated system that censors everything the leadership wants, and that manages "citizen scores", and spies on everyone at all times.
However, I wouldn't be surprised if the U.S. intelligence agencies want to do that just as much to Americans and the whole planet, but do it in secret.
It's always disappointing to see science described as if it's a sportsball game between nations.
Whoever develops the tech first, we all win. You know, as long as the new sentient AI doesn't slaughter us all in our sleep that is.