STEVE JOBS BY WALTER ISAACSON

" My passion has been to build an enduring company where people were motivated to make great products. Everything else was secondary.   -  STEVE JOBS


There is a saying that " All people can be replaced at work place" which is not true in case of Apple. Steve Jobs has proved that saying is not true. Apple become what is today only because of him and he has proved that Apple could not exist without him.
Life wasn't fair for him when he was kicked from Apple after 10 years by the man who was hired by him. Jobs wasn't only a visionary who made great products but also a good entrepreneur who build companies. After he was fired from Apple he has proved again that he can build successful business like: NeXT and Pixar.
Reading the book, written by Walter Isaacson I discovered important parts of his life, but also so important business lessons that I didn't learn in school. We been taught that before to launch a product is important to do a market research to discover what people might want. However this had not applied in his case. He later explained: " People don't know what they want until you show it to them".
In conclusion I firmly recommend this book, for those who want to discover the his life. He didn't invent many things, but he was a master at putting together ideas, art and technology in ways that invented the future.

AI AND THE RACE FOR WORLD SUPREMACY US VS CHINA

" The nation that leads in AI would be ruler of the world"  - Vladimir Putin President Russia Federation

"I am telling you the world first trillionaire are going to come from somebody who masters AI and all its derivatives that applies in the ways we never thought of  - Mark Cuban

It's obvious that AI is not only a race between companies ,is also a race between nation.  I consider what Putin said is perfectly true. The nation who will lead in artificial intelligence will lead the world from decades from now. Unfortunately for Putin and russian peoples, I will not put Russia in this equation.  The race for AI supremacy is between United States and China. I don't underestimate Russia achievements in matter of science and technology.  Yesterday I was reading an article on CNBC about an AI startup in Russia  " Promobot"  which producing humanoid robots and I was completely impressed by this achievement. However Russia is far behind like countries like: US, China, E.U in matter of AI.

In today article, I will present some ideas about how I see this race between the two super powers. US is the world biggest economy . It's achievements in matter of science and technology has shaped our lives. Having Silicon Valley like the main hub for technology and breakthrough innovations, US is the main player in the field of artificial intelligence. In 2018 according to PwC AI startups in US raised 9.3 billion USD. Startups like: "Nuro" -developing autonomous vehicles,  Data Robots-automated machine learning platform , "Stem" -help organizations to automate energy cost, "First cloud Robot" developing support connected smart machines and so on.
For more information Top Ai Startup US.

On the other hand China, which aims to become a leading on AI field. In 2017 the Communist Party of China set an ambitious plan that by 2030 to become a leader on AI.  Some of the most important chinese startups on AI field are:

• UBTECH Robotics -commercialize humanoid robots
• Mobvoi-    voice recognition and natural language processing
• SenseTime- image pattern recognition
• and so on

For more information Top Chinese Startups


Let's look at both and try to compare US has of his side technology innovation and breakthrough science on the other hand China has on his side large data set which is important in process of creation and training.

1. Us has another big advantage in tools which enable people to create and train machine learning models. Free open source tools like: TensorFlow , Microsoft Azure and Caffe are very popular. In stead China has PaddlePaddle developed by Baidu
2. Shortage of scientist US having Sillicon Valley enable to attract talented people from every corner of the world even chinese!!!  To close this gap The Communist Party of China invested huge amount of money trying to repatriate chinese people from US, providing them good conditions
3. One big advantage that China has over US is big demographic and huge amount of data. Having those is essential in the process of creating AI breakthrough technologies. To understand this well will take chinese startup SenseTime they are using huge amount of data to create and train deep neural network in the process of image pattern recognition.