China seeks ultimate weapon of warfare in AI arms race: A RESEARCH arm of the US intelligence community just wrapped up a competition to see who could develop the best facial recognition technology. The challenge: identify as many passengers as possible walking on an aircraft boarding ramp.
Of all the entries, it was a Chinese start-up company called Yitu Tech that walked away with the $US25,000 prize this month, the highest of three cash awards.
The competition was one of many examples cited in a report by a US-based think tank about how China’s military might leverage its country’s rapid advances in artificial intelligence to modernise its armed forces and, potentially, seek advantages against the United States.
“China is no longer in a position of technological inferiority relative to the United States but rather has become a true peer (competitor) that may have the capability to overtake the United States in AI,” said the report, written by Elsa Kania at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS).
Future US-China competition in AI, Ms Kania wrote, “could alter future economic and military balances of power”.
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