I see some comments critical of China’s and Russia’s tech abilities, something that I disagree with.<p>When I worked as a contractor at Google, there was an ocean of Russian and Chinese speaking people around me. I used to get into work around 5:30am, or a little later, ever day (my usual habit, no matter where I am working). Anyway, there was a manager who also was an early starter and one day I asked him about the diversity of co-workers. I was told that except for people graduating from premier US universities, it was fairly rare to find new graduates with deep math and reasoning skills. He told me that Chinese and Russian graduates were simply better prepared. This is just one data point, but it makes sense to me.<p>I have been working in the field of AI since 1982, and back then almost all AI published papers were from the US. We still kick ass in basic research, but other countries have caught up, and to deny that is simply not seeing the world for the way it is.