Telegram founder Pavel Durov says China’s rise in AI, shown by DeepSeek’s success, stems from its Soviet-style education system, which fosters fierce competition—unlike Western schools that hide grades to protect feelings. “Eliminate the losers, and you eliminate the winners.”
Wtf is this guy on about? In my daughter’s school every kid is ranked at the end of each semester. Everybody knows exactly where they stand relative to everyone else. Furthermore the science/tech programs at our universities are completely overrun with Chinese nationals because they are better, more competitive programs. More than half of Chinese students leave and go back to china after graduation Maybe we should stop educating those we are competing with. THAT is worth complaining about
i agree with this post.certainly in Ireland the grades you receive from 12yrs to 15 yrs are now non numeric grades. so if you receive <40% in the state exam, your grade is issued as "partially achieved". you receive a "merit" for anywhere between 55%and 75%. students do not receive these numeric grades though just the word descriptor
It could also be that China harvests even more data from their people than big tech does here and can train their AI on a deeper, more intrusive data set. I will say the Asian world does try their damnedest to compete at a high level academically so 🤷🏽♂️
