The incoming US Secretary of the Air Force said that China was winning the battle of Artificial Intelligence over the United States. He admitted that China would soon defeat the United States in this high-tech field. Although the Secretary of the Air Force appointed by President Joe Biden has not yet taken office, he publicly replied to the biggest recent controversy in US political and military circles: the Air Force Chief Software Officer, Nicholas Chaillan, who resigned on October 11 last, said that China had already overtaken the United States and won the battle of Artificial Intelligence against it. Kendall III said he agreed with the statement made by Chaillan. Nicholas Chaillan told the media that the United States not only made slow progress in the field of Artificial Intelligence, but that the said progress was also limited by various rules.

Artificial Intelligence technology has penetrated all areas of each country's corporate and national security sectors and is used to plan, design and implement specific actions for complex affairs. Chaillan believes that Kendall's connection demonstrates that the Secretary is determined to make changes to support the US government to excel once again in the competition for Artificial Intelligence. Jim Waldo, an IT scientist and Chief Technology Officer at Harvard University, said he was not as pessimistic as Chaillan about the US chances in the Artificial Intelligence battle against the People's Republic of China. Some media reports also pointed out that, in fact, Chaillan's original statement was that if the United States did not increase investment and make plans and projects advance, it would lose in the field of Artificial Intelligence. Reuters reported: "China has won the Artificial Intelligence battle with the United States and is on its way to global domination thanks to its technological advances, as the former Pentagon Chief Software Officer told the Financial Times".

Artificial intelligence is one of the big new scientific and societal challenges. Therefore, the ministers in charge of research and digital affairs have just announced the launch of four Interdisciplinary Institutes for Artificial Intelligence (3IA).

If you think artificial intelligence is an entirely theoretical pursuit, a quick trip to Kaggle is illuminating. Kaggle is a website that runs competitions, sometimes with serious cash prizes, between teams vying to solve real-world problems by designing algorithms that trawl through big data sets. There are currently 17 competitions up and running. The biggest prize, $100,000 (£77,435), is being offered by an investment company for the team that reveals how news reports affect stock prices. The second and third biggest – both offering around $50,000 – seek to predict when earthquakes will occur and how loyal Brazilian shoppers are.

London/Singapore:The scandal over the alleged abuse of Facebook Inc.'s user data is unfolding a long way from China, and yet privacy regulators in Beijing have been watching intently. Their interest shows how all three big players in the technology world--the Americans, Chinese and Europeans--are feeling their way to balance the demands of consumers for privacy and of governments for security. But they're also competing to shape the rules of the game for internet companies and, for the US and China in particular, to maximize access to data for a bigger goal: to dominate artificial intelligence, the next frontier in machine learning. "All of these governments and companies are in the middle of trying to figure out what data governance should look like," said Samm Sacks, senior fellow in the technology program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank. "And this is happening in a global context that will have implications for trade and for research and development in AI." New Chinese privacy standards take effect on 1 May.

Simonite goes on, "A new version of Apple's Photos app, coming this fall with a new version of Apple's mobile operating system, will use facial recognition to maintain virtual albums of snaps containing people you frequently photograph. It will also look at the contents of your photos, so you can search your collection using keywords such as'horses' or'mountains.' Federighi said those features are powered by deep learning, a technique that underpins significant recent progress in artificial intelligence. They are also playing catch-up with Google, which introduced a photos service with those same features over a year ago (see'Google Rolls Out New Automated Helpers'). But Federighi said that Apple didn't want its algorithms to spill data to Apple about the content of user photos. 'When it comes to performing advanced deep learning and intelligence of your data, we're doing it on your device, keeping your personal data under your control,' he said."