New research shows that China has by some metrics eclipsed the United States as the biggest producer of A.I. talent, with the country generating almost half the world’s top A.I. researchers. By contrast, about 18 percent come from U.S. undergraduate institutions, according to the study, from MacroPolo, a think tank run by the Paulson Institute, which promotes constructive ties between the United States and China.
The findings show a jump for China, which produced about one-third of the world’s top talent three years earlier. The United States, by contrast, remained mostly the same. The research is based on the backgrounds of researchers whose papers were published at 2022’s Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. NeurIPS, as it is known, is focused on advances in neural networks, which have anchored recent developments in generative A.I.
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China is countering the AI “brain drain” by adding new AI degrees like crazy (2000 since 2018!). It’s getting an assist from US self-owns making it harder/worse for Chinese researchers to work in the US.
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It’s interesting because despite both countries’ efforts to “decouple,” the US is still very much dependent on Chinese talent, and China on American tech (chips, conceptual breakthroughs, etc). If this continues, that dynamic shifts.
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