Chinese legislators and political advisers have urged the country’s education system to make rapid changes to deal with the challenges discussed by artificial intelligence and a graying population.
These suggestions echoed the remarks made by President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the “two sessions“, The annual meetings of the main Chinese legislature and the political council. XI said Thursday that the Chinese education system was to change to produce the scientific talents necessary for the country’s major technological ambitions.
Gao Song, president of the Sun Yat-Sen university in Guangzhou, said that Chinese universities, like their global peers, taught students on the basis of obsolete knowledge who could not solve the problems of the future in the AI era. GAO is also a deputy for the National Popular Congress (NPC), the main legislature.
“China and other countries in the world always use past knowledge to teach current students to solve future problems. Cultivating the creativity of students to face an uncertain future is the basic challenge facing the current education system, “Gao said in an interview published Tuesday by the Shanghai site, The Story.
He noted that three graduates of the Department of the School of Computer Science and Philosophy of the School of Computer Science and Philosophy of the Sun-Sen-Sen University were included in the basic team of research and development (R&D) of Chinese AI Start-up In depth.
Gao, a chemist and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that his university had encouraged cooperation between services to encourage interdisciplinary projects while strengthening offers in basic general courses such as AI and logic.
He said that the University would carry out R&D compatible with AI on low -altitude planes, intelligent EA exploration in deep water, mine, transport equipment and intelligent medical treatment.
