Report: China will outspend US on AI research by end of 2018

The US House Oversight and Reform IT Subcommittee today released the results of a months-long investigation into Federal investment and oversight in artificial intelligence. There's a lot to unpack here, and most of it is bad. TL;DR: If the Trump administration doesn't make drastic changes China will pass us in AI R&D spending this year, and will likely lead the globe in AI technologies long before the 2030 deadline its government issued last year. On a day when the leaders of the free world openly laughed at US President Donald Trump as he claimed to have accomplished more than "almost any other" administration in US history, a bipartisan effort back home to make the White House care about the future took the form of a research paper. Congressman Will Hurd, a Texas Republican, and Representative Robin Kelly, an Illinois Democrat, published "Rise of the Machines: Artificial Intelligence and its Growing Impact on U.S. Policy," after spending the majority of 2018 holding subcommittee hearings to interview AI experts.