Brush face attendance, brush face into the station, brush face payment... After AlphaGo defeated the world Go champion Lee Sedol, the concept of "AI" was put under the spotlight. In just over a year, the application of AI has penetrated into every field of human life, changing the adjustment of industrial structure and people's way of life. Facing the huge talent gap, 35 students selected by Huihe - Jining Industrial Base formed the first "artificial intelligence training class" in Shandong Province. Experts from Huihe training Center told the students about the frontier of new artificial intelligence technology, and cultivated new talents in the era of artificial intelligence through practical teaching.
Technical experts to teach practical training courses more international style
Thirty-five freshmen had their first lesson in artificial intelligence at the University Yuanhuihe-Jining Industrial Base in Jining High-tech Zone on Monday morning. In the class of "Artificial Intelligence Training Class", Liu Fengyong, general manager of the Teaching and Research Center of Huihe International Software Talent and Industry Base Beijing Headquarters, explained the current trend of the development of global artificial intelligence and the current situation of talent gap to the students from his more than 10 years of work experience in multinational IT companies.
The course opened this time, as always, follows the advantages of Huihe - Jining Industrial Base training course, plus Liu Fengyong's more than 10 years of overseas and IT work experience, the exclusive customized "artificial intelligence training class" for these 35 students is closer to the forefront of the industry and international standards.
In terms of curriculum setting, the "Artificial Intelligence Training class" uses the international leading artificial intelligence discipline syllabus and localization to make the knowledge system more systematic. Most of the 6-member tutor team are professionals in the field of artificial intelligence from top IT companies at home and abroad. While bringing the most advanced information in the field of artificial intelligence to students, the project oriented teaching + enterprise training mode is adopted to allow students to participate in the research and development of specific projects. In addition to the application of technology, the training class also sets up courses such as intelligent one-to-one confusion solving and open interactive forum. Guided teaching is conducted according to the talent needs of enterprises, so as to instantly understand the learning trends of students and cultivate their Internet thinking and innovation ability.
The development of future jobs in various industries
"The United States currently has 850,000 AI talents, while China currently has only 50,000. According to the current pace and trend of AI development, it is estimated that by next year, China's AI talent gap will reach 1.5 million." Liu cited a simple set of statistics about the talent gap and job market in artificial intelligence.
According to the 2017 linkedin AI Talent report, almost none of the talents in Shandong have professional knowledge background of AI, which makes the opening of "AI training class" in Huihe-Jining Industrial Base more timely and necessary.
"The construction of smart cities, the development of e-commerce, drones, intelligent 'face brushing'... Ai is starting to permeate every aspect of life." 'There will inevitably be a huge shortage of talent,' Mr. Liu said. "Algorithmic modeling, natural language processing, speech/image recognition, data mining, statistical analysis." The future employment of artificial intelligence will also involve various aspects.
Huihe - Jining Industrial Base "artificial intelligence training class" training orientation is to cultivate artificial intelligence applied professional talents. The use of artificial intelligence technology and application to solve the industrial transformation and upgrading of enterprises, to provide better services for the government, for the people and other practical problems. Given that the emergence and development of artificial intelligence has brought more development opportunities to all walks of life, Liu Fengyong hopes that students can start their own businesses and seize the development opportunities of The Times.
On the one hand, it aims to cultivate AI professionals for the society. On the other hand, Liu hopes to enrich his research and development team and reserve more AI professionals for the team by opening the "AI training class".
