you have accomplished, what has yet dared to do before: To 3.26 PM Central European time, the space probe “Chang’e 4 is set in the Atiken-crater”. It was a very difficult maneuver, the area is located in the radio shadow of the earth. As a first Nation, China has managed to land a space probe on the back side of the moon.
50 years after the first manned moon mission and Neil Armstrong’s small steps, has become the space back to its icon for the contest of the systems. At the time, it was the duel of the United States and the Soviet Union. Today, the United States and China. Politically, anyway, increasingly, economically and now also technically: China is no longer the Land of the pirates, but a serious rival. This applies to space travel, but much more for future industry-oriented sectors such as Artificial intelligence.
As a space Nation the people’s Republic is a late bloomer. In 2003, the first Chinese flew into space. As “taikonauts” are trivialized, the Chinese driver of a lot since then. In China one speaks of the “slope Tianyuan” – the sky-flight employees. The want to send a probe towards Mars, in the medium term, even a Jupiter is a planned Mission. By 2022, an ideal time to be a private space station ready for use, since it is likely that in 2024, the International space station ISS sets your operation. On the ISS, the Chinese researchers, out of fear of espionage had been denied the job by the US Congress. Soon Europeans and Americans in Beijing could imploringly requests, whether they are allowed to perform research. Maybe you are even allowed to.
Video: China lands Chang’e 4 on the back side of the moon
With the gloves, however, struggled in Artificial intelligence. In 2016, it came to a battle: man against machine, the master against the Computer, held in the Board game Go, which is everywhere in East Asia popular. Chess is a joke. Lee Se-dol of Korea was up against a machine of Google. Lee lost without a whimper. For many cadres in China was an awakening experience, a Sputnik Moment, as he met back then, in 1957, the United States, the Soviet Union fired the first satellite into orbit. With a lot of money in the United States caught up with the Soviet lead.
this is serious
Exactly this is now happening in China: Who copes Go, has not only programmed a simple computer chess, but is a serious threat. Who builds the most intelligent machines, it can in the future dominate in many industries. It comes to facial recognition, video Analytics, but also about Autonomous Driving. It is the state in China, therefore, now, the billions for the research, support comes from the very top.
As of the powerful state and party chief Xi Jinping in the past year, his new year’s speech, he sat as always in front of a bookshelf. Karl Marx was also Ernest Hemingway’s “the old man and The sea”. This time, however, were in practice two standard works back to Artificial intelligence, draped. The thing is serious.
by 2020, believe experts, might have drawn China and the United States. And by 2030, Chinese companies could be the dominant player on the world market. Right then, incidentally, also the first Chinese to set foot on the moon – maybe the same on the back. Neil Armstrong was never. (Editorial Tamedia)
Created: 03.01.2019, 14:19 PM
