f{"id":33015,"date":"2024-04-18T13:50:42","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T20:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=33015"},"modified":"2024-04-18T13:50:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T20:50:44","slug":"the-rising-dragon-how-singapores-ai-leadership-is-leaving-the-west-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/04\/18\/the-rising-dragon-how-singapores-ai-leadership-is-leaving-the-west-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rising Dragon: How Singapore\u2019s AI Leadership is Leaving the West Behind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The AI Leader You Didn\u2019t See Coming \u2014 Understanding Singapore\u2019s Meteoric Rise<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a>Pranath Fernando | AI Consultant<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published in <\/a>AI Advances<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

6 days ago (ai.gopubby.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Which country do you think leads AI? And does it matter who does? Many people worldwide believe the United States leads in AI. Others who may do a bit of reading around, might say soon it could be China leading on AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you want to make an AI global leadership joke or be a little cruel, you might say well maybe Europe is a leader in AI? as a few nervous Europeans like to say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a joke because, apart from perhaps 1 exception (Anthropic) Europe has no significant AI industry at all, even though it desperately wants to believe it can be a big player in the global playground at AI, despite European resolve usually being about as firm as an undercooked croissant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What if I were to say to you Singapore is an AI global leader, doing things very differently from everyone else? What would you say?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps you might say \u2018Where\u2019s Singapore?\u2019 (it is a small city-state in Asia). Or if you read a little, you might say \u2018I read that Singapore is really good for high-end shopping, is very clean, and they have a nice airline, but that\u2019s about all I know\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well the thing about living in the West, as my non-Western readers will already know, is that we tend to be a little bit self-obsessed with ourselves. Is that fair comment do you think? We are the biggest fans, of ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We tend to think we in the West are the best at everything, what we do, our values, and that everything we do is superior to other countries, of course. So why should you care too much about what goes on in other countries, apart from maybe researching some nice sunny holiday destinations?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite also living in the West, I have never understood or agreed with that point of view, which I don\u2019t think is very smart. Even if we are the best at everything (I don\u2019t quite believe that) how would we know if that\u2019s true, without taking a bit of interest in finding out what\u2019s going on in other countries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But perhaps you\u2019re already sold on that one, or maybe you\u2019re not sure yet. But first, we need to understand why which country leads in AI matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why AI Global Leadership Matters<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

You might think, well does it matter who leads in AI? After all, despite say the United States leading in many tech areas, whichever country in the world you live you can still pretty much use Facebook, or buy an iPhone, so why would it matter who leads in AI if you can get most tech almost anywhere in the world anyway regardless who is the country leading it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While that\u2019s true for now, there are other reasons why you might care which country is leading in AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most articles written about why global AI leadership matters are from a Geo-political point of view. These tend to stress that AI leadership is all about:<\/p>\n\n\n\n