{"id":38760,"date":"2018-04-23T11:00:51","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T01:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/?p=38760"},"modified":"2018-04-23T09:22:07","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T23:22:07","slug":"chinas-ai-talent-arms-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/chinas-ai-talent-arms-race\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s AI talent \u2018arms race\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Perhaps, the real \u2018arms race\u2019 in artificial intelligence (AI) is not military competition but the battle for talent. Since the vast majority of the world\u2019s top AI experts remain in the US, China is starting out from a position of clear disadvantage in this fight. The New Generation AI Development Plan<\/a>, released in July 2017, acknowledged, \u2018cutting-edge talent for AI is far from meeting demand\u2019. This initial program called for China to \u2018accelerate the training and gathering of high-end AI talent\u2019, recognised as an objective \u2018of the utmost importance\u2019. Indeed, Chinese leaders are determined to catch up through leveraging a range of talent plans and new educational initiatives.<\/p>\n

China\u2019s AI talent insurgency is already underway. In accordance with this plan, China is creating new technical training programs, engaging in aggressive recruitment and constructing AI as an academic discipline.<\/p>\n

In early April, China\u2019s Ministry of Education released<\/a> the \u2018Artificial Intelligence Innovation Action Plan [for] Institutions of Higher Learning\u2019 (\u9ad8\u7b49<\/em>\u5b66\u6821\u4eba\u5de5\u667a\u80fd<\/em>\u521b\u65b0\u884c\u52a8\u8ba1\u5212). The plan calls for Chinese universities to become \u2018core forces for the construction of major global AI innovation centres\u2019 by 2030.<\/p>\n

To \u2018perfect\u2019 its AI talent training system, China intends to improve the layout of the discipline, strengthen professional development, improve the construction of teaching materials, strengthen personnel training, launch universal education in AI, support innovation and entrepreneurship, and expand international exchanges and cooperation.<\/p>\n

By 2020, China intends to establish at least 50\u00a0AI\u00a0academic and research institutes, while also pioneering an interdisciplinary \u2018AI+\u2019 approach. Within the past year, the Chinese Academy of Science, Beihang University and Nanjing University, among others, have already established new AI degree programs and institutes.<\/p>\n

The plan also calls for Chinese scholars to \u2018enhance their international influence\u2019 through taking up \u2018important positions in international academic organisations\u2019, while \u2018actively participating in the formulation of international rules related to AI\u2019.<\/p>\n

Of note, the plan includes a focus on military\u2013civil fusion (\u519b\u6c11\u878d\u5408) in AI education:<\/p>\n

Accurately seize upon military\u2013civil fusion\u2019s deep development direction, development laws and development priorities; give full play to the advantages and comprehensive disciplinary characteristics of universities in basic research and personnel training; actively integrate them into the national military\u2013civilian fusion system; and incessantly promote the two-way transfer and conversion of applications for military\u2013civil technologies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The plan continues on the theme of military\u2013civil fusion:<\/p>\n

Promote deep military\u2013civil fusion. Focusing on information technology, taking AI technologies as a breakthrough point, and turning towards highly effective information acquisition, semantic understanding, and information utilisation; take unmanned systems and man-machine hybrid systems as models; build a military\u2013civil shared AI technology innovation base; strengthen the cultivation of military\u2013civil fusion AI innovation research projects; promote relevant technological innovations in colleges and universities to drive military superiority and information superiority …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here\u2019s an example of how China\u2019s quest for AI talent is already on track to become a reality.<\/p>\n

Also in early April, a new educational initiative was established in China, launched<\/a> by Kai-Fu Lee in partnership with China\u2019s Ministry of Education and Peking University. This summer, 300\u00a0top students will receive special training in AI from Kai-Fu Lee and other experts, including Cornell professor John Hopcroft. Kai-Fu Lee notes<\/a>, \u2018If these professors each teach a class of 400\u00a0students in fall and spring, that would graduate thousands of students for employment in 2019.\u2019<\/p>\n

This program will train<\/a> at least 500\u00a0AI teachers and 5,000\u00a0AI students in top universities in five years. In the future, this model might also be expanded to universities across China, scaling up the training of AI experts and potentially enabling a long-term talent advantage.<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen whether China\u2019s quest for AI talent will be successful, but these active efforts reflect a clear recognition of the strategic importance of human capital in this domain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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