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One after another, the major powers in the world have introduced national strategies in the field of artificial intelligence, speeding up top-level planning and seizing the dominant position in the artificial intelligence era. The US White House released three government reports on artificial intelligence in succession and became the first country in the world to take the development of artificial intelligence up to the level of national strategy. At the same time, the strategic plan for artificial intelligence was seen as America’s new Apollo lunar landing plan, with the hope that the United States could possess the same hegemony in the field of artificial intelligence as it did during the Internet era. The United Kingdom set its development goals for artificial intelligence through its 2020 national development strategy and issued a government report to accelerate the application of artificial intelligence technology within the British government. Not limited to just the United States and the United Kingdom, the European Union started early in 2014 to launch “SPARC,” the world’s largest civilian robotics R&D program. The Japanese government enacted “Japan’s Robot Strategy: Vision, Strategy and Action Plan” in 2015, proclaiming that Japan wants to revolutionize artificial intelligence robots. This series of top-level plans ranges from autonomous vehicles to precision medicine to smart cities, with investments concentrated in innovation sectors enabling transformations in key national domains, in response to the challenges facing nations and the world. Simultaneously, this also means that since the current development of science and technology has artificial intelligence as the goal, the future of humanity can never be separated from artificial intelligence. If governments, industry, and the public work together to support the development of technology and pay close attention to its development potential and manage its risks, then artificial intelligence will become the main driver of economic growth and social progress.
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It appears the author took the headings of the table of contents for the roadmap. The roadmap can be found here: http://jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/contextualrobotics/docs/rm3-final-rs.pdf.
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euRobotics, an industry association headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, was established on September 17, 2012, by 35 institutions and now represents more than 250 companies, universities, and research institutes, ranging from traditional industrial robot manufacturers to makers of agricultural machinery and innovative hospitals, with very strong scientific and technological strength.
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I believe the author is referencing this article: https://www.economist.com/news/business/21725018-its-deep-pool-data-may-let-it-lead-artificial-intelligence-china-may-match-or-beat-america.
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Tencent Research Institute., CAICT., Tencent AI Lab., Tencent open platform. (2021). Top-Level Plans. In: Artificial Intelligence. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6548-9_12
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