qatar shines at un- thanks sheika moza educationabove all

 https://www.educationaboveall.org/sites/default/files/inline-files/EAA%2015th%20Session.pdf sept 15

September 14, 2023

EAA and UNICEF Mark Ten Years of Partnership with ‘Decade of Dreams’ Exhibition

September 13, 2023

Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser and UNSG António Guterres Lead Global Advocacy as UN in Partnership with EAA Foundation Announces New Youth Advisory Group to Protect Education from Attack

also qatar and ireland embassies co-lead sdgs UNGA2023

 & launch unga global future 2024 also Qatar eaa & sheika moza

sep16-17 climate change intergen dialogue

sep13 ai & higher ed

sept 8 educationaboveall.org/media-centre/news/eaa-launches-zero-education-project-ministry-education-and-save-children-enrol

 Ezra vogels wonderful contributions to humanity showed over 2000 yeras best for the world progress for asians and the world happen when china and japan design win-win  intergenerational relations (asians are amongst the most caring family builders - i wish they would unite the world around that common sense)

 so while the science of chinese customers boycotting japanese post-nuclear producrts may not exist its certainly high time the peoples of these 2 amazing countries turned a coener on fearing each other - I don't really understand where this fear comes  (surely family loving elders wanted their 21st C millennials to advance hunan rights) 78 years on from world war 2 - dont both nations peoples deserve to be celebrated for extraordinary human development the peoples lifetimes have achieved  

there is another issue - has the west been absolutely out of its mind investing so much in niuclear research and so little in sun and photosynthesis- i guess climate outcomes will be the jury on this but just as one person out of 8 billion as well as quite a deep student of von neumann a120s.com I believe pretending nuclear was the answer to earth not sustaining 8 billion carbon guzzlers was a special kind of ignorance sadly linked to support of violence in the very few places around the world whose peoples regularly vote for that

returning to good is possible when china and japanese peoples deep respect of each other is nurtured by consciousness cultures they have both built with each other --this not a disimilar finding from when uk and continental europe relaltions are win-win - back in 1955 when dad was only journalist at birth of EU Messina this was the plan- but it was ripped up from 1962 by the common agricultural policy and ever since the eu has been multiplying risks of the world war lab shaking its dismal head for the 3rd time- geonomics of the peoples locked in land between arctic circle and the landbridge to the tricontinent eg lebanon/jerusalem and the canal have been where all world wars are platted- the academically  most ignorant policies out of paris-brussels-berlin for perpetuating world war lab beggar the human spirit everywhere- so why do the two thirds of humans who are asian still cowtow to the west

 

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Asia's Richest Billionaires

FORBES RICH LIST

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Anna Fleck,

 

Jun 19, 2023

According to Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaires List, as of June 19, Mukesh Ambani is the richest man in Asia, with a net worth of $91.4 billion. Ambani is the chairman of Reliance Industries Limited, a conglomerate that focuses not only on petrochemicals, but also textiles and telecommunications. He ranks 11th on Forbes’ worldwide list, which is headed by Elon Musk (Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter) with $236.9 billion, Bernard Arnault & family (LVMH) with $231.9 billion and Larry Ellison (Oracle) with $156.2 billion.

In second place - and some 27 billion dollars behind - comes 68-year-old Zhong Shanshan, with a net worth of $64.2 billion. Shanshan is the founder of beverages company Nongfu Spring as well as the founder of Beijing Wantai Biological Pharmacy Enterprise, a private Chinese company that is a major supplier of Covid-19 testing kits. He is succeeded by Gautam Adani (60), who is the chairperson of the Adani Group, a conglomerate that deals with businesses exporting and importing raw materials and finished goods, including coal trading, mining, oil and gas exploration, as well as ports, energy and agricultural commodities.

As the following chart shows, the two Asian BRICS countries stand out here, with China accounting for three out of eight people in this ranking (five out of eight if including Hong Kong), while Indian figures take two out of the top three positions. Also of note is the range of industries included on the list, many of which are relatively new sectors that are shaping the world today, from a pharmaceuticals company that creates vaccines, to social media platforms ByteDance (owner of TikTok) and Tencent (owner of WeChat), through to lithium-ion battery production. Gaming too ranks high, coming in ninth place, with NetEase, one of the world’s largest online and mobile games businesses, owned by China’s William Lei Ding (51), who has an estimated net worth of $31.2 billion.

Rounding off the top ten comes Colin Zheng Huang (43) of e-commerce giant Pinduoduo, which is the largest agricultural platform in China, with an estimated net worth of $28.1 billion. The top ten richest people in Asia - all of whom are men - have a total net worth of $459.9 billion.

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Open in app or online ChinAI #232: The Wudaokou Origins of China’s Large Models JEFFREY DING AUG 7   SHARE   Greetings from a world where… we all make sure to drag our favorite newsletters from the promotions tab to the primary tab, right? …As always, the searchable archive of all past issues is here. Please please subscribe here to support ChinAI under a Guardian/Wikipedia-style tipping model (everyone gets the same content but those who can pay support access for all AND compensation for awesome ChinAI contributors). Feature Translation: A Brief History of Large Models in Wudaokou Context: If you’ve ever been an international student in Beijing, the Wudaokou area probably conjures up wonderful feelings. Please, take me back to those Thursday nights playing beer pong at Sugar Shack. For The Washington Post’s neighborhood guide, here’s Yifan Zhang on this magical neighborhood: To some people, Wudaokou, or WDK, which means “where five roads meet,” is where poor students and coders hang out. For others, it’s not only quintessential modern Beijing, it’s also the Center of the Universe (a nickname for WDK). You can study, fundraise, create a unicorn start-up company and go out to have fun, all within a square mile or two. In this week’s feature translation, which takes us back to 2018, Wudaokou is where Chinese AI scholars gather to discuss the paradigm shift in language models marked by Google’s BERT. The neighborhood also becomes home to the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), which plays a key role in the history of China’s large language model development. This longform Leiphone article (link to original Chinese) is written by Caixian Chen, who also co-authored an awesome history of Chinese University of Hong Kong as a cornerstone of China's computer vision Scene (ChinAI #201) Key Passages: We begin with BERT: On that day, October 11 (2018), an ordinary Thursday, Zhiyuan Liu opened up the arXiv page as usual to browse the latest work in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) uploaded by scholars from all over the world. Most of the time, the quality of papers on arXiv is uneven, and Zhiyuan Liu only browsed roughly to get general information; but this day, he was profoundly drawn to a paper attached to the Google language team. Originally, I just clicked in and glanced at it, but the more I looked at it, the more fascinated and surprised I became. After turning off the computer, I still couldn’t regain my senses for a long time, and was overwhelmed by the thoughts in it. Sure enough, he soon discovered that this paper also attracted widespread attention from other AI scholars in China. Professors and students from schools such as Tsinghua University, Peking University, Renmin University of China, and Fudan University were also enthusiastically discussing the work. Everyone had a vague feeling: "This may be another technological paradigm revolution in the field of AI.” This work is the famous BERT paper that has been cited more than 70,000 times in Google Scholar - "BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding.” A fun naming details about two different Chinese teams that wanted to name their models ERNIE (to compete with Sesame Street rival BERT): Zhiyuan Liu was at Tsinghua University’s Natural Language Processing Lab. After BERT’s release, he cooperated with researchers from Huawei’s Noah’s Ark Lab and submitted a pre-trained language model named ERNIE to the top NLP academic conference, ACL, in 2019. At the same time, Baidu’s NLP team was also working on a pre-trained language model that they named ERNIE. Since Baidu posted on arXiv first, Zhiyuan Liu and others changed their name, and so Baidu has continued to use the ERNIE name for its large language models (e.g., the ErnieBot model I covered last week). The reaction after OpenAI releases GPT-3 From the article: “On the one hand, everyone is excited about GPT-3; on the other hand, they feel a huge gap in their hearts. Before this, most Chinese scholars felt good about themselves, and felt that the level of papers published by domestic teams was comparable to that of American universities; after GPT-3 came out, they realized that there was still such a big gap between themselves and the top international level.” Some scholars, including Zhiyuan Liu, decided they would shift their entire research direction to large language models. This aligned with the establishment of BAAI, headquartered in — guess, where?! — Wudaokou, which became a cornerstone for gathering outstanding AI researchers in the area. After eventually reaching a consensus to work on large models, BAAI still needed to decide on a name for the project. “Tsinghua Professor Tang Jie suggested that the name had something to do with Wudaokou, because everyone was in Wudaokou and had deep feelings for Wudaokou, so everyone thought of a few names together…After a brainstorm, Ruihua Song from Renmin University proposed to call it "Enlightenment" (wudao), which sounds like "五道 [the neighborhood name]" (wudao), and everyone agreed.” Great details on computing power limitations: Chen reports: Since large models require large computing power, BAAI also began to invest heavily in computing power and other resources from October (2020). At the beginning, BAAI planned to use the existing scientific research funds to purchase 300P (Petaflops?). Mayor Chen Jining made a decision to strongly support it, and then decided to allocate funds from the special funds to purchase 700P, so the total is 1000P. However, the process of going through approvals and purchasing computing power dragged on for more than a year, so Wudao mainly relied on renting computing power in its start-up phase.” The Beijing Mayor comes across pretty well in this article. After BAAI relayed its plan to develop large-scale language models: “Mayor Chen said excitedly: ‘This (large-scale model) is the nuclear explosion point of artificial intelligence in the future. It will bring about the vigorous development of the entire production ecosystem.’ The Beijing Municipality decided to strongly support and approve special funds for BAAI to purchase computing power.” A very important point to conclude. BAAI did not restrict the research freedom of its affiliated scholars, and almost all of them worked at other labs and universities. As an example, in one BAAI group, Hongxia Yang was leading Alibaba’s efforts to develop large language models. Zhilin Yang, co-founder of Recurrent AI, was working on the PanGu model with Huawei. As the article concludes: “Wudao not only serves as a bridge between scholars, but also strengthens the cooperation between academia and industry.” This week’s translation takes us up to the launch of BAAI’s Wudao 1.0 and Wudao 2.0 models, which I analyzed over two years ago in ChinAI #145. Next week’s translation starts with a section titled “The Eve of ChatGPT.” First half of FULL TRANSLATION: A Brief History of Large Models in Wudaokou Thank you for reading and engaging. *I didn’t read much else this week, but I’ll catch up next issue! These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly translations of Chinese-language musings on AI and related topics. Jeff is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University. reply HI Jeff are you in DC region? ; i would love to meet to update visions ; on my side  trying to start up EconomistDiary.com : AI Games: Architect Intelligence as  a game played everywhere especially by under 30s who see humanai (eg fei-fei li, hassabis, bard llm ...) with good llm models as what UN sdg 17 actually needs to be designed around would love to see a beijing pack of intelligence architects  best chris macrae n bethesda + 1 240 316 8157 chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk

Can Eurasia and the world ever help the Russian People come back from the cold

 ED: Unlike climate which probably compounded as a crisis every year through second half of my life born 1951, this question needed to be integrated into intelligence of everyone & every year of my life - so argued Von Neumann & Einstein when pretraining Economist Journalists in futures we now call AIGames.solar  chris.macrae@yashoo.co.uk

- so here's a tour down memory lane as we start to prep for Un 2-23-2024 - potentially the greatest make or break year of humanity, and certainly of younger half of world

Dad Norman had served as teen navigator allied bomber command Burma; fortunately to survive he was in Keynes last class cambridge; he was the hired temporarily by The Economist for 40 years; The Economist's centennial autobiography (1843-1943) super editor Geoffrey Crowther sent norman to Princeton NY/UN to learn with Von Neumann through year 1951/2; then next trip to be only journalist to observe 1955 Messina birth of EU; it wasnt unit age 40 The Economist let Norman sign one annual survey; he always wanted to see how people were doing in places that had really concerned him - 

The Most Exciting Example JAPAN 1962 News The Economist. Saturday, 1 September 1962.Pages 53,54. Vol 204, iss... Consider Japan Part 2 Lessons for Developers? The Economist. Saturday, 8 September 1962.Pages 57-61. Vol 204, iss...

so he started in Japan where the vision of 1962 was best for the world; in Russia the peoples future possibility in 1963 were not happy but already US intelligence was exaggerating the economic strength of the continental roof to the old world; perhaps 80% of people life work was taxed going in to arms and state management of all property/utilities; the people were miserable; 

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Changing Russia - Survey led by Norman Macrae The Mustard Seed The Economist. Saturday, 1 June 1963.Pages 16,17. Vol 207, issue 6249. when would a time come to help them escape the awful systems they had got trapped in as the mess of Europes central europe n-s above where the med sea landbridge becomes the tricontient and of the suez canal's connection of Euro and Asia- for those wanting to applaud asian good news, in 1968 china's then quarter of the world's population decided the last economic model they ever wanted was russian or beholden to russia; the sacrifices the chinese made including one child policy were extraordinary but they planted 2 wonderful seeds; by defintion half of all families started beceoming on their smartest young da=ugheters; from 1976 chinese capuatlsim blended 3 d=frsces: along with slowly turning some state organsiations into best world has (eg choiense railways0, vilage small enetrrises connecting women empowerment and most urgent needs - eg rice to end starvation , vilage mediccs rose expoentials rich diaspra particularly from taiwan were invited to make huge inward investments in building cities and infrastructures;

The Economist. Saturday, 25 September 1965. Page 3. Vol 216, issue 6370.

No Christ on The Andes - What's Gone Wrong?  The Economist. Saturday, 25 September 1965. Pages s9-s11. Vol 216, issue 6370.

The German Lesson A survey by Norman Macrae The Economist. Saturday, 15 October 1966. Page s3. Vol 221, issue 6425. Valuing Peace  In 1963, it was almost as great an eyeopener to see how and why Russia was progressing so poorly as it had been the previous year to see how extraordinarily well Japan was sustaining growth ... 20 years later, Norman and Chris Macrae's book on how wonderfullty productive youth of the net generation could be, fully understanding USSR was vital. Macraes argued the whole system would collapse before the end of the 80s and the west should prepare to welcome the peoples of Eastern Europe into vibrant open societies - ending the distrust and fear that made 1945-1984 the most depressing period of government-led arms races ( through taxes costing about 20% of most people's lifetimes in USA and European allies). The failure to be passing on this peace dividend to all our youth today is one of the folly grandeurs of macroeconomics and geopolitics - did we humans really learn nothing peaceworthy from the collapsing systems that engulfed the start of the 20th century? related Valuing Peace

#BR3

 80% of world trade is shipped and perhaps the only world trade planed in the future will be when people need to make long place exchnages or persishable items buut tehse should be highly taxed to include the cost of carbo trasnprtation as our friend Sir Adrain Cadbury first wrote up in the 1990s

we tried a 12 way mapping index of coastale belths #BR0 thru #BR12 between 2015-18 as we explored sdgs , AI and goals by places but realise a far deeper one is now needed- still 40 yersd of reporting of futures peoples by place seemed to need most is indexed in this posting

August 5, 2018 Originally posted linkedin chrismacrae.com

To enjoy exploring the world of goals you will need to feel free to collect unconventional wisdom- my father Norman Macrae has been called the most unconventional western journalist of the 20th C- you can see why by downloading the ppt map where one-click will take you through to his surveys in The Economist.

As optimists we believe good trade between diversely different regions of the world is what creates the potential of our children everywhere let alone reality of sustainability goals; if this is so which regional world trade route are you starting out from and which is the next region to innovate good trade with? do you need to get to BR2 BR1 BR0 - are you coming from BR6 BR5 - do you want to help the peoples of BR9 BR10 BR3 BR7 ? Do we yet linkin true west-east-south-north mediation let alone livelihood education out of BRUN or BR8?

If you are interested in youth livelihood co-creation help us blog guides to inter-regional world records jobs creators BR0 china BR1 rest far east and asean and pacific south including OZ and NZ BR2 S Asia including Bangladesh BR3 russia BR4 east euro BR5 west euro BR6 north america BR7 stans and middle east and suez or gulf facing BR8 med sea facing BR9 africa BR10 latin america BRUN Uniting Nations BRIC InterCity- InterCommunity (see goal 11 maps especially by UNHabitat's new leader former female mayor of Penang)

Be prepared each couplet is a very different journey - for example BR0-BR2 -almost half the world's people need sustainability from this region which is perhaps 10% of the planet's land and already mixes the most and least advances tech societies on earth. In the middle of mediating this are the world's poorest women as well as hopefully the most heroic technologists - Nilekani? Ma? Abed-Quadir-Gates?

or consider BR6-BR1 whose world leaders include interations between American Trump and N Korean Kim Jong-Un - I dont know who can world record job create for youth caught up in this space though seeing Moon Jae-in talk at his first international venue was my happiest moment of 2017 and ever since i met medic Ira Hefland I have wished that every person qualified to teach knew what he knows

Patterns: Norman loved to survey countries whose peoples need ideas on how to join in a happy win-win world of trade instead of that of scary big ego men (dad served as teen in world wars 2 navigating planes over modernday myanmar-bangladesh- his alumni viewed that if they survived they would mediate the end of being ruled by the hitlers and stalins of big men's world); questions about helping each others nations chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk washington dc whats app 1 240 316 8157 (i am sure i have more to learn than you do but is what you know being shared with sustainability youth everywhere? EconomistLearning.com Economistwebs.com EconomistRefugee.com Economiostsports.net EconomiostDiary.com)

Imagine Entrepreneurial Revolution (year 50) : when heroic men landed on the moon, the question that took over father's mind for the rest of his life was: what will all this mobile communications tech do to youth on earth (will it be taken over by more big brothers or is it possible to empower little sisters to sustain communities everywhere) .