China has eclipsed US in AI, robotics and VC funding

Re:China has eclipsed US in AI, robotics and VC funding by linuxkerneldev on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @06:41AM (#13121860)

I'm not sure the Y axis in either chart gives any truly meaningful implication. The first one gives USD$ millions spent and the second gives just the number of publications. Lets look at the first one. Lots of article state that the efficiency of capital use (ie: how much return you get for putting in $1) in China is much lower than that in the US. Googling even shows that China's capital efficiency, because of the lack of transparency and a command-control government-economy, is even lower than competitive developing countries like Vietnam, India and Thailand. [1] , [2] .

The number of publications, I'm going to have to search to find backing statements but I believe that it is not reflective of true contribution.

[1] https://www.accenture.com/us-en/insight-outlook-beyond-capit...

[2] http://foreignpolicy.com/2003/07/01/can-india-overtake-china...

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Re:China has eclipsed US in AI, robotics and VC funding by Jommi on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @07:02AM (#13121956)

Yeah the charts can be quite easily critiqued (what charts don't?). Would be great to see for example a clearer definition of the dollars spent.

But you also need to remember that the statement here is a comparative one. Higher ampunt od publications is a fact and npt unreasonable to then deduce that more research is done in china than in USA.

Now that I think about this, its just a terrible article: Graphs should never be posted Without a grounded analysis.

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