If Yous Read Solely Ane Column On Artificial Tidings This Month...

Back inwards May nosotros thumbnailed Lee Kai-fu every bit "Sometimes the contest is only apparently intimidating/scary/resistance-is-futile, smart."
Followed past times his mini-bio from Edge.org:

"KAI-FU LEE, the founder of the Beijing-based Sinovation Ventures, is ranked #1 inwards engineering scientific discipline inwards PRC past times Forbes. Educated every bit a estimator scientist at Columbia as well as Carnegie Mellon, his distinguished career includes working every bit a inquiry scientist at Apple; Vice President of the Web Products Division at Silicon Graphics; Corporate Vice President at Microsoft and founder of Microsoft Research Asia inwards Beijing, i of the world’s hap inquiry labs; as well as then Google Corporate President as well as President of Google Greater China. As an Internet celebrity, he has l million+ followers on the Chinese micro-blogging website Weibo. As an author, amid his 7 bestsellers in the Chinese language, 2 have sold to a greater extent than than i one 1000 m copies each. His start mass inwards English linguistic communication is AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, as well as the New World Order (forthcoming, September)

More afterward the jump.

Here he is at the South PRC Morning Post, September 18:

Column past times Lee Kai-fu

 

AI has far-reaching consequences for emerging markets
The U.S. of A. of America as well as PRC are predicted to capture nigh seventy per cent of the estimated US$15.7 trillion inwards wealth that AI volition generate globally past times 2030

Most studies nigh the behaviour upon of artificial tidings (AI) on jobs as well as the economic scheme get got focused on developed countries such every bit the United States as well as Britain. Through my piece of work every bit a scientist, engineering scientific discipline executive as well as venture capitalist inwards the U.S. of A. of America as well as China, I get got come upward to believe that the gravest threat AI poses is to emerging economies.

In recent decades, PRC as well as Bharat get got presented the footing alongside 2 unlike models on how countries tin climb the evolution ladder. In the PRC model, the nation leveraged its large population as well as depression costs to construct a base of operations of blue-collar manufacturing. The province thus steadily worked its agency upward the value chain past times producing meliorate as well as to a greater extent than technology-intensive goods.

In the Bharat model, a province combines a large English-speaking population alongside depression costs to larn a hub for outsourcing of low-end, white-collar jobs inwards fields such every bit software testing as well as describe of piece of work organization procedure outsourcing. If successful, these relatively low-skilled jobs tin live like shooting fish in a barrel upgraded to to a greater extent than advanced white-collar industries.

Both models are based on a country’s terms advantages inwards the performance of repetitive, non-social as well as largely uncreative piece of work – whether manual labour inwards factories or cognitive labour inwards telephone telephone centres.

Unfortunately for emerging economies, AI thrives at performing exactly that form of work.

AI is dramatically accelerating the automation of factories as well as taking over routine tasks, such every bit client service or telemarketing. AI does such jobs cheaper than the low-wage workers of the developing footing and, over time, it volition produce those better.

Robots that examine your iPhone for scratches produce non get got holidays for Lunar New Year; AI customer-service agents produce non need pay rises.

Without a terms incentive to locate inwards the developing world, corporations volition convey many of these functions dorsum to the countries where they’re based....MUCH MORE

If interested, the Edge slice the mini-bio is from is linked at AI VC: "We Are Here To Create".