AI’s Rapid Expansion In Emerging Asia.

Jai Raj Choudhary
3 min readJul 8, 2020

The powerbase of artificial intelligence (AI), research and commercialization is increasingly stretching in Asia. Given its still early stages of development but huge potential to scale returns. AI startup and research clusters are emerging rapidly, a harbinger of the technological leapfrog that is to come, with outreaches mainly from Japan to singapore.

India lags behind in R&D spending and patent filing, it ranks second only to China in the number of computer science graduates it produces each year. India almost doubled its AI workforce from 40,000 in 2018 to 72,000 in 2019.

This survey of Asia’s burgeoning AI landscape suggests there is a great deal of fusion across the region, with Chinese, Japanese and other players contributing enormously to the development of new technologies and ethical governance frameworks.

Asia has been home to tech pioneers for a considerable length of time. Driving tech organizations in Japan and South Korea, for instance, have the absolute most elevated number of AI patent filings, as per the World Intellectual Property Organization. The achievement of these and other East Asian combinations is additionally a demonstration of the nature of their ability and capacity to market research. Asians are putting accentuation on scaling applications in mechanical and home apply autonomy, self-driving vehicles and keen city ventures. China presently drives the world in yearly R&D going through with about $275 billion (simply above 2% of GDP), however other Asian countries are likewise over the 2% mark, including Japan (generally $176 billion), South Korea ($70 billion) and Singapore ($13 billion). For examination, U.S. government R&D spending is generally $131 billion. While these figures catch a wide scope of parts from biotech to materials to software engineering, all are driven by AI.

Japan’s enormous scope drive into IoT sensor arrangement across Asia ought to be comprehended as a feature of its AI technique given the information it will create. As the principal nation with across the board 5G sending, South Korea has an edge in social occasion information that will extend its AI ability in zones, for example, shrewd assembling, vivid gaming and independent vehicles.

The AI learning curve.

After decades of promise and hype, AI is now seemingly everywhere.Paradoxically, more than 200 global companies report that their organisations have yet to go big. For example, most are still experimenting with small-scale pilot programs, which are no guarantee of success.Greater ambitions with AI have been so challenging for all global companies.Which leads me to my next point that more than half of technology leaders believe that they are at the forefront when it comes to extracting value from AI. However, nearly three out of four executives report that their companies are still in the early stages of AI adoption, from strategic planning to pilot programs. It’s still early days for the business use of AI. This perception points to a lack of urgency that in itself could be slowing enterprise-wide AI implementation.

Over the past several years, the necessary ingredients have come together to propel AI beyond the research labs into the marketplace: Powerful, inexpensive computer technologies; huge amounts of data; and advanced algorithms including machine learning.While AI is likely to become one of the most important technologies of our era, but the question is that what are the biggest challenges?

On the Contrary to popular assumptions, the biggest challenge facing companies with AI isn’t a lack of data scientists but rather data itself. Companies need more of it in every form — structured, unstructured and otherwise. Executives also point to difficulty in scaling AI technology, meeting a growing number of data compliance requirements and providing adequate security.

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