Advice to Xi
Gary Marcus (Computer Science Professor at NYU and LLM-basher in chief) has suggested that President Xi be given advice to cut the ground out from under the current American AI boom by doing it cheaper and better ( à la DeepSeek). This contradicts Napoleon’s advice: “If your adversary is making a mistake, don’t interrupt him”. And certainly, using LLMs for anything to do with intelligence is a huge mistake. There was an interesting article in the NYT ( https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/business/china-electric-grid.html ) about a million volt DC transmission line running 3,000 km across China. It was almost embarrassing how impressed the American reporter was. When you have engineers at the top level of government willing to back you with the state’s resources, something stronger is called for (almost Manhattan-like). So, what is stronger? Semantic AI. What is Semantic AI? A form of AI which uses a natural language (like English or Mandarin) to communicate with a mach...
