Who stated it is CCP goal for "AI dominance"? Western media? Sure everyone want to be at the top of the food chain, but calling it dominance is just pure scaremongering.
>Who stated it is CCP goal for "AI dominance"? Western media?
After a moment of Googling I found the answer, I don't think HN really benefits from presumptuous statements against a poster - presume good faith.
>Sure everyone want to be at the top of the food chain, but calling it dominance is just pure scaremongering.
"Market-Dominance" is a current tenet of PRC AI strategy, or at least in the words of a document published by the PRC detailing the country's AI strategy.
Two hits: "Market-Dominant" and "the dominant role of the market in allocating resources". The second one is obviously about being dominated by the market, not dominating it... and the first one as well: "Follow the rules of the market, remain oriented toward application, ..." It's about investing in AI technologies that already have some success in the market rather than pie-in-the-sky projects without application potential.
Bonus: ctrl-f "dominate": "dominated by the market"
Second link:
Two hits, "give markets the decisive role in allocating resources, strengthen the dominant position of enterprises," and "Strengthen the dominant position of enterprises in the market". While that may sound like the government picking winners, within the context of market reform in China it actually refers to strengthening the position of enterprises as opposed to the government. Repeating this slogan ("强化企业主体地位") signals that the government does not intend to return to a command economy (where the government was in the "dominant position") even when it comes to funding strategic development projects.
Googling for policy documents and then ctrl-f'ing for keywords is a good first step, so props to you for doing your own research, but it doesn't help much if you lack the background knowledge to interpret what you find.
Google did Android because a few reasons, lets point out the obvious ones:
1. Like article mentioned, avoid monopoly by Apple.
2. A phone is the best device to collect your data, not just the browser level but it's operating system level. When you drive, no matter if you are using google map or not, they will send your GPS data to their server, whether it is anonymous or not.
There was never going to be a monopoly by Apple. The average price of an iPhone is $700-$800. The average price of an Android is $250. Apple would have never priced its phone low enough to appeal to the mass market.
These online petitions tend to be largely filled in by people from North of the border. There is no way of verifying that the signatories are Hong Kong people (the only validation is the last four digits of HKID which can be any four digit number)
Unless that site requires valid ID to sign in support, I immediately disbelieve the number because bot activity is basically inevitable. (Not that I don't believe that there are people in Hong Kong who support the bill, just that online signatures don't help figure out how many there are.)
I know I am going to get a lot of criticism, but hey freedom of speech:
First of all, I live outside of China and I am not against freedom of speech and human rights.
Let’s take a look at it at another angle: if Google drops dragonfly, the Chinese netizens will end up using “Baidu”, is it better or worse for the netizens of China? For the very least, dragonfly improves the situation from monopoly and gives much better/accurate/scam-free/spam-free search results. That is one way to improve their online experience.
I could be very wrong, but what I understand is these people oppose dragonfly because the government can restrict results, okay that’s not very ideal, but at least the government cannot force it to give false search results, right?
