Chinese government introduces artificial intelligence to high school curriculum
In the summer of 2017, China unveiled a plan to become a world leader in AI, challenging the United States dominating this technology. China was not alone in this; French President Emmanuel Macron, in an interview with Wired Magazine, said the country would spend nearly $ 2 billion on research and development in AI.
As part of China’s plan for dominating and creating rules in the field of AI, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China has released a 28-page document, “Three-Year Action Plan for the Development of a New Generation of the Artificial Intelligence Industry (2018-2020) . ” A three-year plan sets out an aggressive planthe Chinese government's use of AI (along with its own version of the Apollo 11 lunar program) in an attempt to boost national pride and make a technological breakthrough. The plan also substantiates the need to "accelerate staff training" and "deepen the reform of the system and mechanisms for training talent." To achieve this goal, the Chinese government wants to attract and train highly qualified specialists for AI and innovative entrepreneurship in various ways and to support the development of a group of leading talents and the search for first-class young talents.
Personnel training also requires large projects, encouraging participants and collaboration between schools and enterprises, colleges and universities in order to support the development of AI-related disciplines, to guide professional schools to guide the development of industries that urgently need qualified personnel. To implement this educational goal in schools and colleges, the Chinese government is introducing a textbook called The Basics of Artificial Intelligence. The experiment starts in 40 high schools. The textbook sets out the history of AI and how these technologies can be applied in areas such as face recognition, autonomous driving, and public safety.
The textbook was written by order of the Chinese government to include this discipline in the course of primary and secondary schools. A nine-chapter textbook was written by a stellar cast of authors. The lead author is Tang Xiaoou, a professor of computer science at China University in Hong Kong and the head of the world's most successful AI startup SenseTime Group. The textbook details the history of the development of AI technology and some of its main applications, such as public security systems with support for face recognition, as well as autonomous driving.
The first chapter of the book, entitled Artificial Intelligence: The Beginning of a New Era, follows the story of a young man named Ming Ming in 2028. Every morning, he wakes up to the soothing voice of a virtual assistant, eats breakfast prepared by a culinary robot, and travels in a car without a driver. The book is available for sale on JD.com for 35 yuan ( $ 5.5 ).
As part of China’s plan for dominating and creating rules in the field of AI, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China has released a 28-page document, “Three-Year Action Plan for the Development of a New Generation of the Artificial Intelligence Industry (2018-2020) . ” A three-year plan sets out an aggressive planthe Chinese government's use of AI (along with its own version of the Apollo 11 lunar program) in an attempt to boost national pride and make a technological breakthrough. The plan also substantiates the need to "accelerate staff training" and "deepen the reform of the system and mechanisms for training talent." To achieve this goal, the Chinese government wants to attract and train highly qualified specialists for AI and innovative entrepreneurship in various ways and to support the development of a group of leading talents and the search for first-class young talents.
Personnel training also requires large projects, encouraging participants and collaboration between schools and enterprises, colleges and universities in order to support the development of AI-related disciplines, to guide professional schools to guide the development of industries that urgently need qualified personnel. To implement this educational goal in schools and colleges, the Chinese government is introducing a textbook called The Basics of Artificial Intelligence. The experiment starts in 40 high schools. The textbook sets out the history of AI and how these technologies can be applied in areas such as face recognition, autonomous driving, and public safety.
The textbook was written by order of the Chinese government to include this discipline in the course of primary and secondary schools. A nine-chapter textbook was written by a stellar cast of authors. The lead author is Tang Xiaoou, a professor of computer science at China University in Hong Kong and the head of the world's most successful AI startup SenseTime Group. The textbook details the history of the development of AI technology and some of its main applications, such as public security systems with support for face recognition, as well as autonomous driving.
The first chapter of the book, entitled Artificial Intelligence: The Beginning of a New Era, follows the story of a young man named Ming Ming in 2028. Every morning, he wakes up to the soothing voice of a virtual assistant, eats breakfast prepared by a culinary robot, and travels in a car without a driver. The book is available for sale on JD.com for 35 yuan ( $ 5.5 ).