Why China Will Win the Artificial Intelligence Race

... million US citizens are currently saddled with a staggering $1.53 trillion in student loans — with a projected 40 percent default rate by 2023. The US student loan bubble is expanding in tandem with the rising unemployability of young Americans. Fake news overload naturally leads to pervasive intellectual stupefaction. US policy-makers will ignore this ominous trend, just as they ignore the perennial national slide in global indices that measure the quality of life, education and human capital yields . Can the human mind — incessantly subjected to politicized fairy tales and violent belief systems — be capable of continual innovation? It is of course easier to blame an external bogeyman for a purely internal malaise. Herein ...