While the U. S. continues to lead the world in innovation relating to artificial intelligence (AI), CNN reports today China’s announcement to overtake us via its planned investment of $150 billion over the next few years.
However, a nearly offhand remark in the story–on which the author doesn’t expound–is this one: Alibaba (BABA, Tech30) founder and chairman Jack Ma, currently China’s richest man, thinks artificial intelligence will bring about a massive upheaval in society, with robots replacing many CEOs as well as less senior workers. Cashiers at McDonalds we knew about, but CEOs, too?! Ma has offered prophecies as jarring […]
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