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China is the undisputed champion in artificial intelligence research papers, far surpassing the U.S. in both quantity and quality. archive.fo/Nah50

16 Jan 2023 at 19:57 | Open on mas.to
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Maybe(oz)

@yogthos do I need to start studying Mandarin, or will the research translate across languages?

16 Jan 2023 at 20:00 | Open on mastodon.social
Yogthos

@oz it does seem like machine translation keeps getting better every year. So probably not a requirement.

I do suspect that Mandarin will be an important language to know going forward though. I started learning last year myself.

16 Jan 2023 at 20:09 | Open on mas.to
Hal

@yogthos I question the methodology of this work. There is lots of great work from Chinese authors but I haven't noticed any massive change like the study suggests.

16 Jan 2023 at 20:07 | Open on eldritch.cafe
Yogthos

@zzz I haven't been following the rate of publications myself to be honest. I did see a separate more broad study indicating that China has outpaced US both in terms of quantity and quality of research though physicsworld.com/a/china-overt

It seems natural that a country with over three times the population and a stronger education system that's free at all levels would be producing more quality research.

16 Jan 2023 at 22:01 | Open on mas.to
Hal

@yogthos

There is amazing work going on, but it's not quite that far away.

airankings.org/ is a good illustration for what I mean.

You can see that Chinese universities clearly have a growing and might soon be dominant presence. But it's uneven. Clearly dominating in computer vision and NLP, soon to be dominant for machine learning, but no presence in robotics.

16 Jan 2023 at 22:12 | Open on eldritch.cafe
Yogthos

@zzz I think the whole domestic high tech push is fairly recent, so it's not too surprising it's uneven at the moment. It's gonna be interesting to see where it all goes in a decade or so.

16 Jan 2023 at 22:35 | Open on mas.to
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