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4.2
Why Hong Kong

lacks AI manpower?

Artificial intelligence (Al) is regarded as a key to drive the
world’s future development. Although Europe and the

United States are dominated by private enterprises, while
Mainland China is led by national entities, the core of AI
formation, in fact, is rested on the availability of top-notch
242 talent. The 2017 Global AI Talent White Paper released

by the Tencent Research Institute stated that there are
approximately 300,000 AI researchers and practitioners
in the world, while the market demand for AI talent is in
the millions. The report suggests that the bottleneck is

education - though there are 20,000 graduates from related
disciplines each year, the number is far from adequate to
meet demand.

University is a battlefield for acquiring talent. For example,
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, personally recruited