Japanese media: Chinese AI talents are young, Japan chase

Nikkei Chinese website July 26th article, original topic: Chinese AI talents are young, Japan's catch -up to become the top programmers who develop artificial intelligence (AI). When will the learning skills be good? Japan Economic News (Chinese version: Nikkei Chinese website) The programming competition data of the AI ​​talent reserve training skills found that global competition has begun since the period of primary and secondary school students. The Chinese have ranked among the top competitions since their teens. Enterprises are also paying attention to the performance of programming competitions, which is conducive to recruiting talents.

Japan's ATCODER is one of the few programming competition organizations, and approximately 400,000 people around the world are registered. The data of the about 96,000 people participating in the ATCODER competition in the past two years was analyzed from the data of the ATCODER competition in the past two years. According to the country and region, the contestants over the age of 40 and over 40 years old found that the participants in China and Iran were the youngest and the middle value was only 18 years old. China has started to increase the number of players from the age of 10, and has started learning skills earlier than other countries.

ATCODER President Takahashi said: "90 % of the players born in 2010-2012 are Chinese, and there are very few Japanese. I also heard that Chinese competition programming training courses can be taken from the age of 10, especially excellent programming capabilities. It is good for college. "In addition to the population, learning is also a major factor in improving the competitiveness of the Chinese. The number of winnings of the world's top programming competition "Olympic Olympic" from high school students can also clearly see this result. Judging from the cumulative amount of gold medals from 2010-2021, China is the most, with 40, 6 more than the second place in the United States.

Japan's top players are not inferior to foreign players in terms of skills. In the CodeGym 20121 contest hosted by Google, 5 of the 25 finals were Japanese. Japan's programming education started late. Judging from the age of the ATCODER rankings, Japan's middle value is 24 years old, the largest in programming competitions and regions.

Japan has improved the programming level of young people since 2020, such as setting up primary school compulsory programming education. President Takahashi said: "Some key schools now have computer departments. The key is how to penetrate into the club activities of junior high school. If there are more and more schools engaged in programming education, talents that can fight against China can be cultivated since childhood. "(Author Sakuragi Hao Ji, etc.)

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