Recently, the US House Armed Services Committee held a hearing on the capabilities of artificial intelligence and the reliability of using robots as military assistance, which was reported by the US media CBN.
Of particular focus at the hearing was Alex Wang, a 26-year-old Chinese who dropped out of MIT at age 19 to start his own business.
Founded in 2016 as Scale AI, his company became one of the best AI intelligence companies in Silicon Valley in just a few years, and he became the youngest self-made billionaire, now valued at $7.3 billion.
At the hearing, he argued that whichever country can most quickly and effectively integrate new technologies into the war will win.
He warned the United States at the hearing that the United States has fallen behind China in the AI race, and that China has tried to spend three times as much money on AI this year. China is putting the full power of its industrial base into AI.
Alex Wang believes that for the development of artificial intelligence, intelligent algorithms make data more valuable than in the past, and data is the ammunition in the artificial intelligence war, and whoever masters the data wins the leading position in artificial intelligence technology.
Scale AI, on the other hand, is an AI data company, and AI is highly dependent on data, and data can be considered the cornerstone of AI because they are key elements for training and improving models. His company transforms some large-scale data into high-quality training data through labeling to support AI.
That data has skyrocketed his fortune, now worth $1 billion, and the Pentagon has become a client, having previously awarded his company a $250 million contract to help the U.S. military develop and deploy artificial intelligence technology, including a decision-making tool called Donovan, and robotic combat vehicles.
Alex Wang, a Chinese American born to nuclear physicist parents, immigrated to the United States and worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where the world's first atomic bomb was born.
His parents' values also deeply influenced him, and now he works in the United States, a very talented young man, but unfortunately not us, his statements at the hearing are undoubtedly encouraging the United States to increase investment in artificial intelligence to avoid being disadvantaged in the competition with China's artificial intelligence and affecting the global influence of the United States.
And the United States usually wants to get funds or increase investment in a project, often using China as an excuse, I have to say, this Chinese really understands the United States!
Now that the United States has established the CDAO, the US Chief Office of Digital and Artificial Intelligence, as the supervisor and promoter of data analysis and artificial intelligence in the Pentagon, high-quality data is the top priority of CDAO.
Scale AI can get orders from the Pentagon is reasonable, and the purpose of this hearing is self-evident, the United States should invest more in artificial intelligence. At the same time, apply artificial intelligence to the military!
As the young Chinese CEO said, in the future, artificial intelligence and military data will be combined to develop unmanned military equipment with AI intelligence, and which country will achieve technological leadership in this field, it will inevitably gain greater global influence while protecting national security.