People are so excited about deep learning precisely because its core power—its ability to recognize a pattern, optimize for a specific outcome, make a decision—can be applied to so many different kinds of everyday problems. That’s why companies like Google and Facebook have scrambled to snap up the small core of deep-learning experts, paying them m

An army of robots is freely available—it’s just packed in data centers for heat and space efficiency. Use it.

While all of this may sound exciting and innovative to the Chinese landscape, the hard truth is that no amount of government support can guarantee that China will lead in autonomous AI. When it comes to the core technology needed for self-driving cars, American companies remain two to three years ahead of China. In technology timelines, that’s ligh