“I believe that the president-elect Trump he’ll be very good at it,” Altman said.
And since the appearance of the OpenAI conversational chatbot, two years ago, the world has experienced a rapid boost in AI. “We need to build that here (in the United States) and we need to be able to have the best AI infrastructure in the world to be able to lead with the technology and capabilities,” he stressed.
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There are only a few weeks until Trump Take command of the most powerful nation. What could happen with artificial intelligence?
For the expert in technological innovation, Maite Vizcarra, with the new management of Trump “lost time will be made up for”Well, the political problems and the partisan crisis during Joe Biden’s administration would have made USA lag behind other powers that work IA.
“During the time of [Joe] Biden, there has been a lot of suspicion in the American government, in his own EU., regarding what to do with artificial intelligence, and there has been a lot of discussion about whether to regulate or not regulate; even though it is already known that the United States is rather a nation that advocates innovation and deregulation”Vizcarra said to The Commerce.
On the other hand, for the author of the book on digital activism, “Hackear al Perú”, there is another detail that for OpenAI It is important: the data. Nowadays, AI systems work with a lot of digitalized information, but to continue training these tools, even personal information would be needed, using people’s behavior.
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Vizcarra points out that the aspect of privacy and regulation in a government of Biden you would probably be thinking, “But a government like that of Donald Trump “They’re going to get that off easily.”. For the specialist, AI companies need to scale the volume of information (Big Data) and the debate for the evolution of AI tools “It will depend on where you end up with that information”.
A new ‘cold war’
But the statements of Altman They are also a sign of international competition.
“We firmly believe that USA and our allies need to lead this,” said the CEO of OpenAIin relation to China’s strong presence in technological innovation.
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However, in this field there are also some differences. On the one hand, the Statista website indicates that the United States leads private investment in artificial intelligence, in a period from 2013 to 2022, with more than 248 billion dollars, followed by China, which has invested 95 billion dollars. .
According to the information from the “Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2023” study, the other countries that have been promoting AI are the United Kingdom, Israel, Canada, India, Germany, France, and South Korea.
The situation changes when talking about intellectual property. The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) indicated in the middle of this year that inventors based in China file the largest number of patent applications for generative artificial intelligence. Thus, the five countries with the most patents are China (38,210 inventions), the USA (6,276 inventions), the Republic of Korea (4,155 inventions), Japan (3,409) and India (1,350).
For Maite Vizcarra it is a “new cold war for artificial intelligence”. He explains that the development of this technology can be seen in three large blocks: the United States, China and also Europe, with their own founding models that consist of “a first line of algorithms on which an entire artificial intelligence model is already built”.
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“In the world there are two or three [modelo fundacional]one is Chinese, one American and the third is in Europe and his name is Claude, who is of French origin and is the one who has been growing the most lately. Claude 3.5 is the model with which they hope to compete”he explained.
Key factors for AI
Another important detail is the participation of companies. The WIPO report notes that the top 10 generative AI patent applicants are Tencent (2,074 inventions), Ping An Insurance (1,564 inventions), Baidu (1,234 inventions), Chinese Academy of Sciences (607), IBM (601), Alibaba Group (571), Samsung Electronics (468), Alphabet (443), ByteDance (418), Microsoft (377).
Of this group, six companies are of Chinese origin. Is that one of the reasons Sam Altman hopes that USA develop your own infrastructure? “We need to build that here (in the United States) and we need to be able to have the best AI infrastructure in the world to be able to lead with the technology and the capabilities,” he said over the weekend.
Although the volume of information is important, another aspect that Vizcarra highlights for the development of AI is energy. “You need a lot of energy for this to be processed, to train the artificial intelligence, and that implies a lot of money”he indicated. After all, AI works based on computers (data centers) that operate non-stop, which also means an environmental impact.
There is also the hardware aspect, such as the latest generation chips that process all the information. At this point, China has taken another step by restricting exports to the United States of crucial semiconductor components, such as gallium, antimony and germanium. Although SK hynix, Samsung, Nvidia and Intel have already received billions of dollars for the production of chips in the United States.