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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.
Chinese students believe in artificial intelligence while US students believe in intelligent design.
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.
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
"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
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.