ARCHITECHT Daily: China vs. America is an AI red herring

The New York Times published a provocative article on Friday, asking in the headline "Is China outsmarting America in A.I.?". But depending on how you define "outsmarting," and the context in which the question is asked, the answer might not even matter much. The answer might matter very much in terms of geopolitics and national security. Just like with supercomputing, quantum computing and other areas of deep computer science research, having better capabilities in artificial intelligence can arguably lead to an edge in areas like military, energy and climate science that can shift the world-power balance. But if we're talking about consumer or enterprise AI, then comparing China and the United States is kind of like comparing apples and oranges.