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Chinese Companies Hunt for AI Talent at American Conference (nikkei.com)
Chinese internet players have flocked to a research conference on artificial intelligence here, fighting to attract students from their home country who received a top-notch education in the U.S. From a report: Chinese is the language of choice among 34 company and group booths occupying prime real estate near the entrance to the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence conference, opened Friday. Native speakers represent companies including virtual mall operator Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent Holdings, which runs the communication platform WeChat. They woo students, mainly of Chinese origin, with descriptions of comfortable jobs or invite them to attend parties. The intense competition reflects the great strides China has made in the field. This year, the AAAI received research submissions in record numbers -- at least 3,800. Entries from China increased 57% on the year to a level roughly even with those from the U.S. Moreover, Chinese researchers were involved with about 60% of the research posters on display -- a privilege given to selected papers. The research poster exhibition was sponsored by Chinese internet company Baidu.
You giving me a high level party membership? No. THEN FUCK OFF.
Laowai shopping never went out of fashion with Chinese dot com crowd
If only it was that simple. The problem is that US students go to college for the experience, not the education. I can't recall a single parent even caring about the grades their kid made. Most don't even know what grades their kids are making. As long as their child is happy, they are happy.
BTW, with all that AI research bandoozle going within Baidu, they can't even beat Google search accuracy from 10 years ago...
I doubt they will ever improve, no matter how much Ivy league grads they hire, unless they disadopt that cargo-cultish view of the industry they got from the Silicon Valley.
The few SV companies that do perform well, do so exactly because they refuse to go along the local koolaid culture
Ukraine, Syria (start to about 2015-6), the India/Pakistan wars over Kashmir, whatever the hell is going in CAR right now, Uganda civil war in the 90s, in fact just about all the wars that aren't Iraq or Afghanistan we've got nothing to do with. Try harder.
Chinese students believe in artificial intelligence while US students believe in intelligent design.
Its is, but there is simply not enough smart Americans around.
Hell when about 7% of American adults think chocolate milk comes from brown cows... and captain Covefefe thinks he "like a smart person", you just know you are in trouble.
And not everything invented in the USA has been invented by an American.
If you get rid of all the smart people, soon you will be just left with the stupid ones.
You really live up to your username.
sudo rm -r -f --no-preserve-root /
here in the US at a top-5 engineering program about 8 years ago.
A third of them are bright and chipper but too obsequious to learn well. Embarrassed to ask for help, and all too quick to waste time praising your intelligence when they do. Go off to nowhere for weeks at a time, and then present a bunch of nonsense because they didn't acknowledge the limits of their own knowledge and just threw everything at the wall. We all have these limits, but most of us from here who make it to research-heavy grad schools have the good sense to ask questions based on those limits instead of trying to hide them and hoping for the best.
Another third is here on vacation. They've got connections back home, which is how they scored their spot abroad, and they view grad school as subsidized playtime to take trips and go shopping instead of buckling down and working. They've already got a sweet lined up back home, and their stint in the US is a box to check off. Not just Chinese, I've seen some Indians fall into this category too. Not many Americans. Americans don't tend to go to grad school for vacation.
The last third is comparable to the bulk of American students. Some are better than others, some are worse but they're there to work.
So whose more likely to bite on the shiny back home being offered at these recruitment events? Probably not that last third.
Evidence?
Experience is the education. Experience of life among engineering students and engineering professors prepares you to experience the rest of your life among engineers.
My parents stopped caring about me when I was 18. HS grades, maybe. 18, you're an adult now. Deal with your own problems.
education in the U.S. should be USA first and not being more open to higher paying international students.
At the university where I work, there is a push from various groups (including faculty) to admit MORE international graduate students simply because they bring in more money. The reasoning is - while we are supposed to be prioritizing in-state applicants, over the past few decades the state has drastically cut the overall percentage of the university's budget which it funds... so why should we continue to follow rules which were set when the state paid the majority of the university's operating budget?
Note: I'm not arguing this is good or bad... just that it is a thing.
#DeleteChrome
Most milk comes from Holstein cows, ~7% of which are brown.
"The Capitalists will sell us the rope by which we will hang them." -- 6 Lenin
Wait, I already used that one regarding Facebook/Twitter.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
So arms sales a few years in and arms embargoes to combatants are having our fingers in the war? OK. Sure. Hell, I bet there's an Intel or AMD chip somewhere in the North Korean satellite launch control room. That's tantamount to building their missiles for them with our own hands! Ditto for the Iranian nuclear program.
How much does this kind of trolling pay? I bet it doesn't pay that much, otherwise it would be of higher quality. It might even include some copy-paste talking points instead of silly word games.
And vehemently anti immigrant. Hey that's all right . Money and Jesus are all we need.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
So you can't cite any? Or say anything without making up whole new insult words? WTF is a 'fuckstick' exactly? Is it some sort of sex toy?
Nice artilces