Курцвейл заявил, что через 10–15 лет человечество фактически научится бесконечно продлевать жизнь.

Кроме того, футуролог порассуждал о том, что такое смерть.

“Люди говорят, что они не хотят жить после 90 лет. И знаете, я говорил с теми, кому исполнилось 90 лет. Они хотят жить до 91 года, они хотят жить до 100 лет. Люди также склонны считать, что смерть дает смысл жизни, поскольку ограничивает ее время, но на самом деле смерть — это грабитель. Грабитель, который уносит весь смысл и все накопленные знания”, — объяснил Курцвейл свою точку зрения.

… All of these companies, as well as national,… you've got to believe, right, that you have in a Defence Department of every nation massive investments going in this way. I mean, if I told you: “Listen, would you rather have a population, which is twice as smart as anybody else, or anything else?” Human intelligence is gonna be the dominating driver in competitiveness in the century ahead.

Last year, China’s government put out its plan to lead the world in AI by 2030.

As Eric Schmidt has explained, “it’s pretty simple. By 2020, they will have caught up. By 2025, they will be better than us. By 2030, they will dominate the industries of AI.”

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4. China’s Government Directive

The day DeepMind’s AlphaGo beat top-ranking Chinese Go player Ke Jie has gone down in history as China’s “Sputnik Moment.”

Within two months of the AI’s victory, China’s government issued its plan to make China the global center of AI innovation, aiming for a 1 trillion RMB (about $150 billion USD) AI industry by 2030.

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Within a year, Chinese VC investors were pouring record sums into AI startups, surpassing the U.S. to make up 48 percent of AI venture funding globally.

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Lastly, local governments have begun to team with China’s leading AI companies to build up party-corporate complexes.

Acting as a “national team,” companies like Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent and iFlyTek collaborate with national organizations like China’s National Engineering Lab for Deep Learning Technologies to pioneer research and supercharge innovation.

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Artificial Intelligence is reshaping the world as we know it. With US-Sino competition heating up, who will own the future of technology?