While the U.S. has been a world leader in research and development, spending $497 billion in 2015, China has boosted spending by 200 percent between 2000 and 2015 and is on track to surpass the U.S. in research investment by the end of 2018, the report said. China has increased its spending on AI research, to the point that it is set to overtake China investment by the end of this year , according to a report by Pentagon lawmakers Xi Jinping and Will Hurd . The paper calls for increased federal funds to be spent on education and training programmes to give US workers the skills needed to "maintain American leadership with respect to AI". China 's President Xi Jinping said he wants the country to be a world leader in AI by three .
China has increased its spending on AI research, to the point that it is set to overtake China investment by the end of this year , according to a report by Pentagon lawmakers Xi Jinping and Will Hurd . The paper calls for increased federal funds to be spent on education and training programmes to give US workers the skills needed to "maintain American leadership with respect to AI". China 's President Xi Jinping said he wants the country to be a world leader in AI by three .