"Is overtaking?" Sorry buddy, that point lies in the past. China dominates nearly all of the relevant future technologies and is still ramping up its investments. There's no stopping them now.

[–] kinther@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Even in the AI sector they seem to be only a pace or two behind. Their models are as good and require less compute. It really does feel like we are falling behind in everything.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Even in the AI sector

they said relevant future technologies

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Solid burn

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

"Their models are as good and require less compute."

In a sense, this is exactly why I think that China will inevitably overtake the US in this field too. Even besides things like Deepseek, which distills LLMs dominant in the US into a more streamlined model, China also seems to be putting more resources into researching AI that doesn't need to start out with mahoosive amounts of data.

[–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

In some ways their AI might even be better at this point. I've talked with Claude users complaining that their AI kept skipping steps and I haven't had that problem with GLM 5.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

China sent their best and brightest to be educated in American colleges, which American kids can't get without taking on a lifetime of student debt. Most American kids aren't rich enough to deserve to be smart.

It's okay, though, we'll need those bodies for the war. Trump is competing against Putin numbers for sacrifices. 1.2 million so far in Ukraine. Trump has some catching up to do. He wants to be able to brag to his Sociopathic Oligarch buddies at dinner at Maralago about how many soldiers have died for him, and the higher the number the better. That's how much they love him.

American students don't need college, that's for the Chinese who build our stuff. The Draft is coming for American students. They should be willing to die to protect American Freedom.®

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

The US paid the best and brightest foreigners to teach in American colleges.