The gap between China and the United States in artificial intelligence is huge. China's AI talents rank 7th.

In the first half of last year, the media once heated up the topic of Ng Enda leaving Baidu for his wife. Of course, as for why Ng Enda left Baidu, it has something to do with Baidu's own problems. Ng's wife, Carol Riley, is called a beauty by some media people. The most important thing is that the co-founder and president of Drive.ai, an artificial intelligence startup located in California, was Carol Riley. A core employee of Baidu once said this to the media: "In the beginning, I mainly wanted Wu to be responsible for self-driving cars, because his wife's company also made self-driving cars, so this business was separated from his business. ” However, the media also analyzed this and concluded that Ng’s resignation from Baidu may also be due to “not loving the country and loving the beauty.” In the eyes of others, Andrew Ng is indeed a first-class artificial intelligence expert in the industry. In addition, the reason why Andrew Ng has become one of the celebrities that the media focuses on is also causally related to the current popularity of artificial intelligence.

On March 12, according to media reports: Artificial intelligence talents, especially first-class elite talents, are still scarce globally. The supply of artificial intelligence talents simply cannot meet the demand of the industry, and some companies even take advantage of academic conferences to recruit talents for themselves. Some companies are even willing to offer seven-figure annual salaries when recruiting top researchers. Element AI recently collected and compiled a report on the global distribution and flow of artificial intelligence talents (including data from LinkedIn).

First, there are approximately 22,000 artificial intelligence practitioners and researchers with doctoral degrees or above globally, and approximately 5,400 artificial intelligence experts are often active in major artificial intelligence conferences. The United States has the largest number of artificial intelligence talents, followed by the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, France, Spain, China, India, Japan, Singapore, Brazil, Poland, Finland, South Korea and Italy. There are more than 12,000 artificial intelligence talents in the United States. Although the United Kingdom follows closely behind the United States, the number of artificial intelligence talents in the United Kingdom is only more than 2,100. The number of artificial intelligence talents in Canada, Germany and France is around 1,000. The number of artificial intelligence talents in Spain and China is about 600, but fortunately, China has about 200 artificial intelligence experts, which is almost nine times that of Spain.

Second, people educated in Canada, China, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany tend to immigrate to the United States and engage in artificial intelligence-related jobs. Similarly, for Canada, China, the United Kingdom, France and Germany, the incoming talents mainly come from the United States. The United States is still the center of global artificial intelligence research and education. Someone once said that American technology giants such as Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, IBM, etc. can give artificial intelligence talents a broader platform, as well as the local working and living environment, academic atmosphere, etc., and have an impact on talents from all over the world. Quite attractive.

There is no need to go into other more detailed situations. However, in my opinion. Although the above data can show the gap between countries in the field of artificial intelligence to a certain extent, it more represents the past and present.

Last year, a data released by Zhaopin Recruitment on the Internet showed: First, in China, the industry’s demand for artificial intelligence talents has been growing, and the supply exceeds demand. In the eyes of many people, artificial intelligence-related jobs generally have relatively high salaries. Second, also in China, the ten industries with the highest concentration of artificial intelligence talents, from high to low, are computer software (30%), Internet/e-commerce (22%), communications/telecommunications/network equipment (17 %), IT services (11%), telecommunications operations and value-added services (11%), computer hardware (3%), electronic technology and semiconductors (1%), outsourcing services (1%), online games (1%) and Insurance (0.3%). In other words, the three old Internet giants BAT, the new three giants TMD, as well as Huawei, Xiaomi, NetEase, JD.com, etc., plus some artificial intelligence-related start-ups, are one of the important forces in absorbing and cultivating intelligent talents for human work. one. You like Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu, Toutiao, New Meida, Didi, Huawei, JD.com, Xiaomi, NetEase, etc. not only have massive and rich data resources, but also have the ability to build various scenarios for artificial intelligence research and application. ability. Anyone who wants to enter these star technology (Internet) companies in China must first be good enough, and academic qualifications are a threshold that must be passed.