CCTV News:Under the wave of digitalization and intelligence, artificial intelligence, that is, AI, has penetrated into many aspects of our lives and has become an important direction of future industrial development. To this end, many colleges and universities in China not only set up specialties and colleges related to artificial intelligence, but also keep up with the needs of the industry and actively promote the cultivation of cross-border talents combining artificial intelligence with other disciplines.

Harbin Institute of Technology is one of the earliest universities in China to carry out research in the field of artificial intelligence. In order to strengthen the training of relevant talents, in 2019, Harbin Institute of Technology set up an artificial intelligence major, and this year it further established an artificial intelligence college.

According to the training plan, in the College of Artificial Intelligence, the first and second academic years of undergraduates mainly focus on strengthening basic courses related to artificial intelligence, and the third academic year is classified and trained according to personal growth needs, which is divided into three directions: AI technology, AI system and AI application, and the fourth academic year is personalized and independent development.

In a laboratory of the School of Artificial Intelligence of Harbin Institute of Technology, students from different R&D groups are experimenting with their own topics, such as robots, robot dogs and robot cars, which are also the teaching processes that every undergraduate will experience.

The University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, located in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, began enrolling students in its artificial intelligence major in 2019.

The teacher in charge of teaching told us that the traditional computer major courses are more inclined to the underlying operating system and compilation principles, while the artificial intelligence major pays more attention to the application of interdisciplinary subjects and the interactive behavior related to people, so it has higher requirements for mathematics.

As a hot subject focused on the development of various countries at present and in the future, the major related to artificial intelligence is undoubtedly very attractive to candidates, but whether to apply for the exam needs to be combined with their own actual situation.

Talent gap, high skill requirements, high salary in artificial intelligence industry.

Due to the strong development momentum of artificial intelligence related industries, the demand for talents by enterprises in related fields continues to rise, and the monthly salary of some popular positions even exceeds 20,000 yuan this year.

In an artificial intelligence laboratory in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, not only on-the-job engineers, but also many college students participate in project research and development and innovation. The person in charge of the laboratory voice team told the reporter that with the wider application scenarios of general artificial intelligence, more and more professional backgrounds of talents are needed. Therefore, the laboratory has strengthened cooperation with universities, providing internship opportunities for students majoring in computer, electronic information engineering, data science and other related majors, and enabling more new forces to empower the development of the laboratory.

In a cyber security technology research and development enterprise in Harbin, Heilongjiang, the person in charge of human resources said that at present, enterprises especially need practical talents with innovative ability. Therefore, the demand for recruitment of students with professional backgrounds such as artificial intelligence, big data and big models continues to rise.

The data shows that in the first quarter of this year, the demand for employment in artificial intelligence-related industries continued to rise. Among them, the number of recruitment positions for natural language processing engineers increased by 126% year-on-year, and the average monthly salary for recruitment reached 24,535 yuan, up by 12% year-on-year.

The hot market in the job market has also made the popularity of artificial intelligence-related majors continue to climb. Among them, software engineering and computer science and technology have been shortlisted as "Top 10 Hot Majors" for many years, and the employment salary of graduates has also remained at a high level; Graduates with professional backgrounds such as data science and big data technology are popular in many industries such as the Internet and finance, ranking fourth in the monthly income ranking of undergraduates in 2023, with employment satisfaction reaching 79%; Internet of Things Engineering and other related majors provide a broad employment direction for graduates because they cover hardware equipment, software development, network architecture and other aspects, and the employment satisfaction of the 2023 undergraduate graduates of this major has also reached 75%.