One of the secrets to China’s engineering success is its young people. In 2020, more than 3.5 million of the country’s students graduated with degrees in science, technology, engineering and maths, better known as STEM.
That’s more than any other country in the world - and Beijing is keen to leverage it. “Building strength in education, science and talent is a shared responsibility,” Xi told party leaders last week.
That opening photo is so telling, a chess robot … while one could literally run https://lichess.org/ from ANY device (tablet, mobile phone, laptop, etc) and have a functionally equivalent experience for free (both open source and free of cost, no ad either), in fact arguably a much better one due 0 setup time (literally none, it’s all Web based!) to all the community, tutoring exercises, etc.
This is such a blatant fail.
“Timmy hugged his little robot friend before heading to bed. He doesn’t have a name for it – yet. “It’s like a little teacher or a little friend,” the boy said”
… it’s way WORST than a fail. How do you think this human will develop assuming friendship with a (commercial) product rather than another human being? My bet, but I’m no psychologist, is poorly.