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SanWenYu

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Randomuser said:
died like the founder of Sensetime
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I bet the authorities have done their due diligence before making the following statement regarding his death. He had the director titles of two key institutions that are state owned/funded. His health conditions should have been known to the authorities.

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Professor Tang Xiao'ou, founder of SenseTime and a renowned AI scientist, passed away on Friday night as a result of a health issue.

Tang was also the director of Pujiang Lab, director of Shanghai AI Lab and professor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

He passed away due to health issues on December 15, 2023, at 11:45pm, SenseTime said in an obituary on Saturday.
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This is from Amazon. Somehow somewhere in my subconscious there is a voice wanting to see how the likes of AMZN, MSFT, NVDA, AMD etc. might respond should DeepSeek was banned by the US government ...
 
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Biscuits

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Randomuser said:
There were previously other AI experts in China that "suddenly" died like the founder of Sensetime.

They better give the guy security. Wouldn't be surprised they try to kill him like they do with Iran nuclear scientists.
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You're not serious. US doesn't have anywhere near the capability, especially not at weathering the counterfire.

Plenty of people have suddenly died in US as well.

Comparing a Chinese citizen to some random Iranian is like thinking US soldier walking around in pentagon are in equal risk to Ukraine soldier dallying about in Pokrovsk.
 
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iewgnem

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JamesRed said:
I don't think she's looking for Liang Wenfeng for no reason. Surely he should consider that with the development of such an advanced AI that there may be a target on his back. Assassination in this realm is not out of the list of possibilities.
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You don't get invited to a meeting with Li Qiang without Beijing already considering you important enough to assign a MSS team
 
plawolf

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00CuriousObserver said:
From my understanding, AGI will have a much greater impact than basically any other technological advance. And this time, it's actually something that cannot be lost. Even a 2 years gap in reaching AGI is devastation. And this is clearly not the case for other things such as 6th gen.
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I think it is highly dependent on who achieved the breakthrough first. Because while the initial breakthrough is of course critically important, so is the ability to roll things out at pace and scale.

Super advanced designs doesn’t mean much when they are stuck on the drawing board.

So, if China achieves AGI first, it’s basically GG for America. But if America gets there first, even with a 2 year head start, it would be unwise to count China out.
 
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zyklon

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plawolf said:
It would be negligent for Liang and all his team to not be protected by the MSS, and the MSS doesn’t tolerate negligence.

Trying to kill him will be no easy feat. Trying to kill him and get away with it will be far harder.

Can the CIA kill him? Probably if they tried really really hard. But are the prepared to lose potentially multiple operatives and risk starting a war to do it?
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The CIA is generally speaking too risk averse to deploy its own officers as trigger pullers in non-permissive environments.

Of all the major intelligence agencies, only Mossad, the GRU and the RGB have a reputation for such risky operations; and even then, the GRU and RGB tend to limit targets to what they consider traitors and domestic terrorists.

If the CIA is to try something in this regard, it will almost certainly get outsourced to organized crime or an expendable 3rd party of sorts. It's been what they've preferred since the 1960s.
 
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