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Preview: AGI: Colleague Brandon Weickert of National Interest comments on the decidedly different aspiration of AGI in the US and in the PRC. More next week.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Preview: AGI: Colleague Brandon Weickert of National Interest comments on the decidedly different aspiration of AGI in the US and in the PRC. More next week.
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0:00.0

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Monday.com. This is John Batchel, a conversation with colleague Brendan Weikert of national interest

0:35.6

about using AI, as Brendan and I do, as writers and

0:40.5

talkers, and what we're learning about the Chinese version of AI and the American version of

0:47.2

AI. The American is something that Brandon quite correctly says, is the approach is comprehensive.

0:55.2

Show us what you can do. Let's keep going. Large language models, bigger, bigger servers.

1:00.8

Generate intelligence. Surprise us.

1:03.7

The Chinese approach, according to a Financial Times column, and Brendan supports the conclusion,

1:10.5

is based upon a practical application. That would be

1:14.4

applications, that would be surveillance, that would be documentation, that would be keeping

1:21.0

control of information. Two approaches using the same methodology of large language models and the same kinds of chips,

1:31.3

though there is an advantage right now to the U.S. side because of NVIDIA,

1:36.2

but over these decades and centuries ahead of us, those early starts will be even now.

1:43.2

So it's not just what equipment or software you have.

1:46.7

It might be how you think about artificial intelligence

1:50.2

and what you want from it.

1:52.2

More of this next week.

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