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I am deeply worried; there is simply too much uncertainty in the world. Whoever controls computing power, whoever controls data, is the one who takes the initiative.
At four o’clock this morning, I watched a video but forgot to share it. In the blink of an eye, I could no longer find it.
The video said that in the Russia-Ukraine war, victory is determined not by resources, manpower, weapons, strategy and tactics, or military command, but by computing power and data. Whoever has more of the other side’s data and superior computing power takes the initiative—and wins.
Ukraine has obtained vast amounts of data on Russia and uses it to produce drones. The drones have become intelligent: they “know” what they are supposed to do, flying toward their targets with precision and carrying out their missions. All the drones coordinate with one another like bees. Observe the bees around a hive: they never collide, and there is no trial and error. They may appear to be swarming chaotically, but in fact everything is orderly. That is because the bees have a “cloud brain” among them that enables coordination.
Russia is 300 times larger than Ukraine, has 100 million more people, and possesses the world’s second-largest nuclear arsenal. Yet this war has been fought in a remarkably humiliating manner, because the EU and NATO have provided Ukraine with AI technology, while Russia has not.
The video asserted that unless Russia catches up with or surpasses Ukraine in AI, data, and computing power, it is doomed to lose this war.
I watched it, and it opened my mind—it was tremendously inspiring.