Why did I decide to return to China

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Google announced the establishment of an AI China center

The center is led by Li Feifei and Dr. Jia Li, head of Google Cloud research and development. Feifei Li will lead the research work at the center, as well as co-ordinate the work of Google Cloud AI, Google Brain and the Local Team in China.

Fei-fei Li, chief scientist of Google Cloud’s HUMAN Intelligence and machine learning team

In addition to publishing its own research results, Google AI China is also looking forward to building on local collaborations in China to provide high-quality AI and machine learning education support to a wider audience of students and researchers.

“We appreciate this opportunity for Google to work with some of the best AI talent in China, and certainly some of the best AI talent in the world,” Li said. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and we sincerely hope that this will be the first step in the long-term development of Google AI China Center.”

Fei-fei Li is a tenured professor in the Stanford Computer Science Department and director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In 2009, ImageNet was born at Princeton University, her Alma mater, in an attempt to build what is now the world’s largest database of image recognition. Li Feifei and her team provided this database to the world for free, which promoted the rapid development of global artificial intelligence and image recognition in all walks of life.

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Google wants to come back to China, or Google needs China’s power. I believe that both Google and Li Feifei have such considerations in choosing to set up an AI research center in China.

In September 2017, we saw a job Posting on Google’s official job website for a position related to machine learning in Beijing. Since then, there has been speculation that Google may soon return to China.

Shortly before that, in late August, TensorFlow officially launched its Chinese site, which we covered at the time:

Google opens TensroFlow Chinese website, Chinese content is not full, sincerity is not enough

The Chinese site appears to be an attempt by Google to show good faith to Chinese developers, but after our research, it doesn’t seem to carry much weight.

Well, how about another big gift?

Also in September, Google Play became available in several Chinese cities, including Beijing and Shenzhen, and some users can access Google Play directly through the App.

This is very welcome for Android users. The direct access to Google Play in the mainland market is also seen as Google’s return to the Chinese market through Android.

All of these events have increased the belief that Google is coming back to China. Google is well aware of China’s advances in computing, given the increasing accessibility of Chinese developers and the contribution of more Chinese engineers to the community.

In artificial intelligence, China has long woken up and is fast becoming one of the leaders. In 2010, Li launched the ImageNet International Challenge for automatic computer image recognition. For the past three years, the winning teams at the event have all been from China. Meanwhile, China has quickly become the third-largest contributor to Kaggle, the world’s largest community of data scientists, with 65 of its Top 1,000 contestants being Chinese.

With the rise of domestic tech giants such as BAT in 2017, Google cannot afford to wait and see. China has such fertile soil for technology “growth”, and Google wants to sow and harvest this soil.

Google is well aware that if it wants to return to China, it will have to rely on The strength of Chinese developers. It is a clever plan to kill two birds with one hand by recruiting a group of technical talent on the way back to China. Did things go as smoothly as Google expected? Will the reasons that led to Google’s exit be replicated in Li’s AI center in the future?

It’s just beginning. We’ll see.

Letter from Fei-Fei Li, courtesy of Google:

Time flies. It’s been 12 years since I became a professor and a year since I joined Google.

During this time, I have had the privilege of working with many outstanding Chinese engineers, researchers and technical experts. China is home to many of the world’s top artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning experts, and most of the three winning teams in the ImageNet Challenge over the past three years were made up of researchers from China. In 2015, 43 percent of the top 100 published papers in academic journals on AI were from Chinese researchers. The Ai Development Association even rescheduled its annual meeting to stagger the Chinese New Year.

I believe that AI’s well-being knows no boundaries. Whether a breakthrough takes place in Silicon Valley or Beijing, it has the potential to improve the lives of all. As a company with an “AI first” development strategy, making AI available to more people is naturally an important part of Google’s mission. We also want to work with the best AI talent wherever they are.

That’s why I’m proud to announce the launch of Google AI China, Google’s first AI center in Asia, today at the Google Developers Conference in Shanghai. This center will work with our AI research groups around the world, including in New York, Toronto, London and Zurich, to make AI better for all of humanity.

The center, staffed by AI researchers in Beijing and supported by Google China’s strong engineering team, will focus on basic AI research in the future. We have hired some top experts and will complete the team in the coming months. I will lead and coordinate the r&d work together with Dr. Li Jia, r&d director of Google Cloud AI. In addition to launching its own products, The Google AI China Center will also support AI research institutions by funding and sponsoring AI conferences and seminars and working closely with dynamic Chinese AI research institutions.

Society is undergoing tremendous change due to the amazing development of computing power and digitisation. In just a few years, auto-categorizing images in photo apps has become standard. At the same time, we’re seeing the rapid adoption of natural language as an interface with voice assistants like Google Home. On Google Cloud, our enterprise partners use ARTIFICIAL intelligence to upgrade their businesses at an amazing rate. Technology is beginning to shape human lives in more profound ways, and it is all the more important that we work together to ensure that AI can benefit us all in the future.

The Google AI China Center will contribute as much as it can to this goal. We look forward to working with the best ai researchers in China to find solutions to global problems.

AI knows no borders, and neither does AI well-being.

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