Helen’s comments on the assumed superiority of China in gathering data about people brought to mind the recent disagreement between Rich Sutton and Max Welling.
Sutton recently argued that the bitter lesson of AI is methods which leverage compute the best are most effective. Welling responds by arguing the case that data is similarly important, particularly for domains which are not well defined.
This causes me to suspect that the US and China directions for AI research will significantly diverge in the medium term.
Helen’s comments on the assumed superiority of China in gathering data about people brought to mind the recent disagreement between Rich Sutton and Max Welling.
Sutton recently argued that the bitter lesson of AI is methods which leverage compute the best are most effective. Welling responds by arguing the case that data is similarly important, particularly for domains which are not well defined.
This causes me to suspect that the US and China directions for AI research will significantly diverge in the medium term.