Abstract:
China and the United States are the two countries with the most patent applications in artificial intelligence (AI) field. Reasoning is the core and foundation of AI technology, and we can grasp the level of key capabilities of AI in the two countries by studying the progress of this technology. The essential fact of AI reasoning lies in simulating or recreating the procession of thinking. It programs human behavioral habits and decision-making processes, as well as the nodes and processes of events. The number of academic papers and patent applications of AI reasoning in China has exceeded that of the United States since 2021. However, judging from the patent applications and authorizations of six key companies, including Baidu, Huawei, Tencent from China, IBM, Microsoft and Google from the US, Chinese companies have not outperformed American companies. Chinese companies have been digging deep at knowledge reasoning, autonomous driving, and real-time traffic analysis. Companies from the US have obtained many patent grants in cutting-edge fields such as cognitive models, neural reasoning, architecture, power grids, and human-computer interaction. In addition to continuing to consolidate the existing advantages in automatic systems and control, voice recognition, etc., it is also necessary for Chinese companies to broaden the scope of technology research and development, make up for the shortcomings of the scope of patent technology protection and geographical layout, thus get closer to the forward-looking orientation in policy planning.