Too early to pick the leading AI power

The tech will revolutionize industries, create hundreds of thousands of jobs

The United States and China are in a race to become the most dominant in artificial intelligence, or AI. Experts say both economies have strengths and weaknesses that make it difficult to predict which one will come out on top.

"Whereas China overtook the US in AI funding in 2017, ... this sector received five times more money in the US in the period from 2012-16," Georg Stieler, managing director of STM China, a German consulting firm with an office in Shanghai, told China Daily.