Google on Artificial Intelligence Drive in Beijing 谷歌在北京招聘AI顶级人才
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Google Inc. is hiring a series of people in Beijing with a machine learning background, as Chinese media reported the company is building a team of artificial intelligence (AI) experts in the world’s biggest internet market.
Such a build up would come seven years after Google shuttered its China-based search service during a high-profile spat with Beijing over requirements that all internet companies filter their content for sensitive material. In more recent years, growing signals have emerged that the world’s biggest internet company wants to return to the market in less-sensitive areas, including operation of a locally based version of its Google Play app store.
Google’s website currently has advertisements for at least five positions with strong AI backgrounds, including a senior post for one or more research scientists with doctoral degrees. Other jobs being recruited include one or more technical leads for machine learning with a master’s degree or higher, and product and software engineers with AI backgrounds.
“From creating experiments and prototyping implementations to designing new architectures, research scientists work on real-world problems including artificial intelligence, data mining, natural language processing, hardware and software performance analysis, improving compilers for mobile platforms, as well as core search and much more,” Google said in the highest-level job description.
The descriptions did not indicate whether any of the positions would be part of a Beijing-based team. A Google spokeswoman had no comment beyond the job postings.
The postings appeared at the same time that a public account on WeChat, a wildly popular social networking app, reported that Google was preparing to set up a team in Beijing dedicated to AI and the study of robotics. The account, called Liangzi Wei, said it received word of the plan from multiple sources, including Google insiders, but didn’t elaborate.
Formation of such a team would play to Beijing’s recent emphasis on AI and other advanced technologies as it tries to move up the value chain away from its roots as a low-tech manufacturer. Most of China’s homegrown technology giants have set up their own AI development centers, including search leader Baidu Inc. and social networking giant Tencent Holdings Ltd.
Google is often quick to point out it never left China even after the 2010 spat with Beijing, and the company currently maintains a major office in Beijing. It has also raised its profile over the last year through several moves in a country with the world’s biggest internet population, totaling 750 million users. One of those moves saw it resume a developer forum for its popular Android mobile operating system late last year, while another saw its AlphaGo computer defeat the world champion earlier this year at the ancient board game of Go.
重返中国: 谷歌面向北京招聘AI顶级人才
2010年，谷歌退出中国市场掀起了轩然大波，而时隔七年后，谷歌似乎有重返中国的迹象。近日，谷歌在北京地区正式开始招聘，意欲组建一个人工智能研发团队。
据悉，谷歌在北京地区的招聘岗位集中在机器学习和人工智能领域，具体岗位包括机器学习研究员、机器学习技术主管、云端机器学习产品经理等。
与此同时，谷歌意欲组建的这个研发团队设计的AI方向也十分广阔，据介绍，该团队研发的AI方向包括计算机视觉、视频处理与理解、图像处理、语音识别、自然语言理解、文本理解、分类、模式识别、推荐系统、定位系统，以及机器学习、深度学习、优化的算法基础、人机交互，数据挖掘，AI+医疗保健，计算基因组学等，关注领域涵盖商业和零售、媒体和娱乐、医疗保健、金融、交通等。
尽管如此，相关人士指出，如果谷歌想要在中国运营云端业务，还需引入合作伙伴才能符合相关规定，但谷歌尚未对此作出任何回应。
随着中国人工智能行业的逐渐崛起，这一领域的人才吸引谷歌重返中国并不令人意外，此外，中国政府当前对于人工智能发展的支持或许也起到了重要作用。