(5) Peter Coy, Companies Give Worker Training Another Try.
("Economists love worker training, but companies are often reluctant to provide it. The benefits of training can walk out the door if newly skilled are poached by a competitor. * * * (still) The US ranks near the top of the global heap, with 66 percent of workers receiving training from employers in the past year, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (see charts)" )
Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: A tight labor market forces businesses to spend more to develop their employees' skills
(b) There is no need to read the rest. The article does not mention any method to counter poaching, and probably there is none.
(6) Mark Bergen with Ian King, Alibaba's Chip Dreams.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/a ... ucing-its-own-chips
My comment:
(a)
(i) summary underneath the title in print: The e-commerce company is designing and making its own semiconductors
(ii) summary in table of contents: In Beijing's push for chip sovereignty, Alibaba looms large
(iii) Print and the online version are identical. The online title is: "The US-China Trade War Means Alibaba Is Producing Its Own Chips."
(b) Reading this print report, I was puzzled: what is the name of Alibaba chip, who (what semiconductor company) makes it, is it (chip) similar to Nvidia's or Intel's chips? How does it perform AI functioon -- similar to Nvidia's (then Alibaba chip is not revolutionary)?
(c) It turns out that Alibaba has no chip at present, not even a design. See
Yiting Sun, Why Alibaba Is Betting Big on AI Chips and Quantum Computing; Meet the man behind Alibaba's gamble on emerging tech. MIT Technology Review, Sept 25, 2018 (under the heading "Intelligent Machines")
https://www.technologyreview.com ... -quantum-computing/
("The person leading all these research efforts [on artificial intelligence] is Jeff Zhang 张建锋, Alibaba's chief technology officer and head of its DAMO Academy research lab. Zhang sat down with MIT Technology Review at the event ['Alibaba's 2018 computing conference last week'] to discuss his company's plans. * * * [Zhang:] we don't have a processor for it yet. Once we have a processor, we'll need to answer the question of what to use it for. Quantum computers * * * The number of qubits is not our only goal. We want to solve the engineering problems of quantum computing. How do you run existing programs on quantum processors?")
Take notice quantum computing, quantum computers, quantum processor (or chip), or qubit -- none of which exists (yet).
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