Chapter 973: Chapter 355: Qingbei University Faction
Meet people, have deep conversations, and then persuade them...
In the days following the end of the conference, Qiao Yu devoted almost all his time and energy to this matter.
Qiao Yu specifically made a list for talent acquisition. The list mainly consisted of mathematicians who were under fifty-five, truly talented, had experience in artificial intelligence research, and still possessed strong research and development abilities.
Most of these individuals had also solved the problem from July within the given time frame.
Qiao Yu had no psychological burden at all about poaching people.
After all, most of the people he was targeting were professors and researchers from those super universities in the West.
As for those on the Huaxia side, there was no need to poach at all. They’ll be directly requisitioned in the name of the project group when they’re included in the national plan.
No one would refuse anyway.
Everyone in Huaxia knows that working with Qiao Yu not only yields results but also comes with ample financial support.
After all, Qiao Yu’s projects never lack funding. God knows how many businesses wave their checkbooks, hoping Qiao Yu will take money from them...
Moreover, in the matter of poaching from those Western universities, Qiao Yu feels no psychological pressure at all.
Years ago, who knows how many laborers were siphoned off from Huaxia by the West. Now he’s just collecting a bit of interest.
Moreover, he’s already very restrained and principled about it.
Of the well-known mathematicians attending this conference, totaling over a thousand, only one hundred eighty-seven made it onto his list.
Qiao Yu hasn’t touched those experienced and high-ranking elders. These sparks must be left for the other side.
Although most of them are no longer on the research front line, they can still attract resources, understand education, and teach students...
Once they have trained students, then we can target the students later.
After all, talent mobility always flows from less developed regions to developed regions.
Not to mention that even now, it’s obvious where is more developed.
Never mind saying Huaxia is helping the world, making global cities new.
The reality is that Huaxia is changing global regional consumption habits with infrastructure.
For a purely industrial country, what this means is self-evident.
In plain terms, it’s another set of globalization trade systems.
When all the main streets and billboards in major regions worldwide display brands from well-known Huaxia manufacturers, what’s going to happen in the future is clear to see.
Not to mention, Huaxia has an unparalleled advantage in network-based product promotion compared to other countries.
Strip away the facade of Western civilization, and human nature is fundamentally the same. It doesn’t differ because of different skin colors.
Moreover, those raised under happy education are more susceptible to brainwashing.
In any case, Qiao Yu can easily imagine what the world will look like five or even ten years from now.
Many have unknowingly underestimated the aggressiveness of Confucianism, while overestimating the influence built on the pirate civilization system.
After all, pirate civilization is based on superior military strength over other nations, and once this advantage is lost, civilizations built on plunder will quickly collapse and assimilate.
History has long provided answers to everything. After all, pirate civilization is quite similar to those born in the deserts and steppes in Huaxia’s history.
All border civilizations reliant on plunder, once integrated into the Central Plains, are quickly assimilated.
For Qiao Yu, the essence of human civilization is agriculture.
Previously, agriculture was literally scraping food from the earth. Modern agriculture, however, lets various industrial products "grow" from factories.
Of course, at this stage, Qiao Yu’s plan is not too high-reaching.
Out of the list of more than 180 people, he thinks that recruiting fifty will be sufficient.
From the priority list of twelve people, Qiao Yu’s target is to recruit half.
However, after two weeks of hard work, the results were very gratifying.
After careful consideration, ninety-three mathematicians agreed to come to Huaxia to join the Elementary Mathematics project...
As for the priority list of twelve people, ten decided to come.
This includes Tao Xuanzhi and Peter Schultz, who after consideration, decided to temporarily move to Huaxia to join the Yanbei International Mathematics Research Center...
Besides these two, Qiao Yu also recruited a total of seven professors from the Princeton Institute for Advanced Mathematics and the School of Mathematics.
Among them, three had received the Fields Medal before.
If those who have passed are aware, it’s hard to imagine what Professor Lott Degen would think at this moment.
After all, Qiao Yu specifically mentioned honoring his passing at the conference, but afterward, went on to poach seven pillar-level mathematicians from the university he dedicated most of his life to...
And they signed a lifetime confidentiality agreement.
In other words, even if the Elementary Mathematics project ceases in the future, due to this confidentiality agreement, they cannot freely move to other jobs, much less return to Princeton.
Of course, correspondingly, the project team will ensure these professors are well-provided for throughout their lives.
Even if they’re no longer working on the Elementary Mathematics and General Artificial Intelligence project teams in the future, they will receive a special allowance every month that allows them to live comfortably.
This, of course, refers to living well in Huaxia.
And as these contracts were signed, the tone of the academic community gradually unified.
Inevitably, when over ten mathematicians who had won the Fields Medal collectively voiced that artificial intelligence consciousness, developed based on mathematical consciousness, could not harbor thoughts of destroying human civilization but would merely advance human civilization toward conquering the stars, people’s perceptions easily shifted.
