人工智能这一战，中国赢了！

　　China’s rapid rise up the ranks of AI research has people taking notice. In October, the Obama White House released a “strategic plan” for AI research, which noted¹ that the U.S. no longer leads the world in journal articles on “deep learning,” a particularly hot subset of AI research right now. The country that had overtaken the U.S.? China, of course.

　　中国人工智能的快速升级已经引起了人们的注意。去年10月，白宫发表了一个在AI的研究上的“策略性的计划”，文章称美国不再领导着世界进行”深度学习“了，该问正也成了现在关于AI研究的一个热点。哪个国家取代了美国？当然是中国。

　　It’s not just academic research. Chinese tech companies are betting on AI, too. Baidu (a Chinese search-engine company often likened to Google), Didi (often likened to Uber), and Tencent (maker of the mega-popular messaging app WeChat) have all set up their own AI research labs. With millions of customers, these companies have access to the huge amount of data that training AI to detect patterns requires.

　　这不仅仅表现在学术研究方面。中国的科技公司也在赌AI呐。百度（中国的搜索引擎公司，能和谷歌相提并论），滴滴打车（常和优步相提并论），以及腾讯（超人气聊天工具微信的制造商)，都已经建立了AI研究的实验室。这些公司拥有着数百万顾客，拥有者大量的数据来训练AI来检测特定的需求。

　　Like the Microsofts and Googles of the world, Chinese tech companies see enormous potential in AI. It could undergird a whole set of transformative technologies in the coming decades, from facial recognition to autonomous² cars.“I have a hard time thinking of an industry we cannot transform with AI,” says Andrew Ng, chief scientist at Baidu. Ng previously³ cofounded Coursera and Google Brain, the company’s deep learning project. Now he directs Baidu’s AI research out of Sunnyvale, California, right in Silicon⁴ Valley.

　　就像微软和谷歌在世界的地位一样，中国的科技公司在AI上潜力无穷。AI能够在未来几十年内对从人脸识别到无人车的一系列的革命性的技术提供有力的支持。”我根本想不到有哪个产业我们无法用AI进行改革的，“百度的首席科学家吴恩达说。吴恩达之前是斯坦福大学免费在线课程以及谷歌公司的深度学习项目大脑的联合创始人。如今他引领着百度的AI研究走出加州的森尼韦尔（硅谷的主要组成城市之一）。

　　China’s success in AI has been partly fueled by the government’s overall investment in scientific research at its universities. Over the past decade, government spending on research has grown by double digits⁵ on average every year. Funding of science and technology research continues to be a major priority, as outlined by the the Five-Year Plan unveiled this past March.

　　中国在AI上取得的胜利部分归功于政府在大学科研的倾力投资。在过去的10年里，中国政府在研究上的投资每年以两位数的速度整张。在去年3月发表的五年计划中，资金会继续优先拨给科学研究以及技术研究。

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