Dave McCormick: “They've [China] had huge success. They've closed the gap in…”

“And if you look at China in 2017, China laid out the 20 key technologies that it wanted to have leadership on, very focused government action on a number of those. And They've [China] had huge success. They've closed the gap in a number of areas. What I read tells me that in many ways we're ahead in AI, but that leadership position is only going to stay there if we continue to invest, we continue to have the best talent in the world focused on it.” (15:25–15:29)

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