China Has Only a Fraction of the U.S.’ Top AI Research Talent

[F-22Raptor]

What’s new: China only has about one-fifth as many top artificial intelligence (AI) researchers as the U.S., despite boasting nearly 1 million people qualified to work in AI and related industries, according to recent reports.

Last year, China had 232 of the world’s top AI researchers, or 11.6% of the global total, according to the 2022’s AI 2000 List, which was compiled by Tsinghua University’s AI academic search platform. The U.S. number dominates the list with 1,146 AI researchers, or 57.3% of the global total.

China Has Only a Fraction of the U.S.’ Top AI Research Talent - Caixin Global

China Has Only a Fraction of the U.S.’ Top AI Research Talent -The Asian country had 232 of the world’s best researchers in the field last year, compared with America’s more than 1,100, a recent report shows

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[S10]

How do you define "top"? Number of articles published?

 

[beijingwalker]

How do you define "top"? Number of articles published?

Maybe he means that Chinese researchers are hyper efficient, since they published way more top quality, most cited AI related papers than any other countries in the world.

 

[kankan326]

1/4 OpenAI AI engineers are ethnic Chinese. Most them are from mainland China.

 

[Leishangthem]

It is true that google poaches most ai talents.
Google has 2x the r& d budget of huawei, which is the biggest rnd firm of china.

 

[大汉奸柳传志]

China should stay focused on chip industry. AI is a field that has a very low bar of entry yet impossible for any country or institution to monopolize on, the future outlook is for end users to train their own models based on very specific needs, meaning there is no cash in it.

 

[nahtanbob]

How do you define "top"? Number of articles published?

you mean garbage articles