Chinese universities recruit AI undergraduates for the first time

In recent years, there has been a boom in colleges and universities to open artificial intelligence majors, and 2018 will be the first time that colleges and universities will launch large-scale recruitment for high school students, and the post-00s will become the first batch of “fashionable” artificial intelligence majors.

“Xiangbobo” appeals to students and their parents, and the threshold for professional enrollment is rising

Finally, after the end of the college entrance examination, examinees and parents can completely relax? However, they did not. During this time, they were preparing for the college entrance examination. Whether to major in artificial intelligence (AI) has become an important choice for many students and their parents.

In recent years, there has been a boom in colleges and universities to open artificial intelligence majors, and 2018 will be the first time that colleges and universities will launch large-scale recruitment for high school students, and the post-00s will become the first batch of “fashionable” artificial intelligence majors.

Tempted parents and examinees many

For artificial intelligence major, many examinees and parents have high enthusiasm.

Mr. Yan, a Shanghai resident, whose child took part in the national college entrance examination this year, has been worrying about which school to choose. What major to choose? “I support majors like artificial intelligence, big data, software and finance as long as my child likes them.” Mr. Yan said. For the artificial intelligence major, Mr. Yan thinks that the professional prospect is better, and the future employment is sure to be no problem.

“In addition, I am interested in computer and mathematics. If my score meets the requirements of the university, I will consider applying for the major related to artificial intelligence in Shanghai Jiaotong University.”

Candidate Yuan Yang is also interested in the ai major, and he believes that the quality of teaching staff will be the judging criteria for his choice of university. “I do see some universities have ai majors in their recruitment brochures, and WHAT I pay most attention to is the faculty, so I tend to consider C9 universities.”

The pay is good and the industry has a bright future

It is quite normal for parents and students to be interested in ai majors, as the market demand for AI talents is quite strong, the salary level is high and the industry has a bright future.

On a well-known recruitment website, a search for “artificial intelligence” turned up a lot of recruitment positions. Taking the recruitment of artificial intelligence engineers in Shanghai as an example, the monthly salary of a bachelor’s degree ranges from 15,000 to 25,000 yuan to 50,000 to 60,000 yuan. Graduate and doctoral degrees earn more, ranging from 400,000 to 800,000 yuan a month. Among them, those with a monthly salary of 15,000 to 35,000 yuan have a large recruitment gap, and most of them are software implementation engineers, artificial intelligence engineers and artificial algorithm engineers. Most of the recruitment companies are Internet and technology giants, including BAT giants, NetEase, Hikvision, Huawei, IFLYTEK and other well-known enterprises.

In addition, ai majors have a wide range of employment directions, such as intelligent search, voice search, image search, video search, etc. In the field of computer vision and pattern recognition including face recognition, iris recognition, license plate recognition, etc.

College enrollment requirements are getting higher and higher

More than 70 Chinese universities have set up ai majors, including Xidian University, Nanjing University and Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and this year they will recruit students for the first time.

Nanjing University set up a school of artificial intelligence in May and plans to enroll 80 undergraduate students this year. Xidian University set up the School of Artificial Intelligence at the end of last year. “The School of Artificial Intelligence includes the major of Intelligent Science and technology, and this year is the first year to recruit undergraduates of this major.” The school admissions office staff to the IT Times reporter said.

For candidates, it is not easy to be admitted to the artificial intelligence major as they wish, and the recruitment threshold of artificial intelligence major is not low.

Many colleges and universities have included computer and artificial intelligence majors into the category of independent enrollment and comprehensive evaluation. Nanjing University, for example, will recruit 10 new undergraduate students from the school of Artificial Intelligence through independent recruitment this year. For the independent recruitment of computer majors, Nanjing University generally requires candidates to win the third or above national finals in any discipline of Mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and informatics Olympiad.

Tsinghua University and Peking University, on the other hand, require students with outstanding achievements in scientific and technological invention, research practice, innovation and design, or academic Olympiad. Fudan University requires candidates who have won the first prize in the Improvement group of the National Youth Informatics Olympic League (NOIP) with a SCORE of 360. According to The regulations of Renmin University of China, students applying for the major of computer science and technology should have a bronze medal or higher at the 2017 National Youth Informatics Olympiad. In addition, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Zhejiang University, Southeast University are required to apply for this major students have won the national first prize, other universities have provincial first prize can apply for, or have two different disciplines of the provincial awards can also apply for provisions.

In addition to those universities that have already started recruiting students, more universities are also preparing to open ai majors. An insider of Shanghai University introduced that it is estimated that the artificial intelligence major will be opened in the second half of this year, but there are no full-time teachers at present, and the professional teaching material system has not been built. “The teachers should be drawn from the school’s various majors, and may be composed of relevant teachers of computer, machinery, life science, information and telecommunications majors.”

Each talent training mode has its bright spot

The field of artificial intelligence is developing rapidly. For the colleges and universities that just set up artificial intelligence major, how to train professional talents is the primary consideration.

According to the reporter, Tsinghua University has set up interdisciplinary research leading group, issued a number of documents to support interdisciplinary intelligent research and degree evaluation system. Nanjing university institute of artificial intelligence preliminary establishment of machine learning and data mining and intelligent systems and application of two professional direction, through the adoption of new curriculum and training mode, set up in the machine learning of this kind of core curriculum pattern recognition and computer vision, and use of the existing professional tutors and a line of enterprise joint application class curriculum construction, At the same time, we will introduce more outstanding scholars from home and abroad. The artificial intelligence experimental class of Xi ‘an Jiaotong University is organized and managed by Qian Xuesen College of Xi ‘an Jiaotong University through 50% enrollment of college entrance examination and 50% selection of admission. The teaching of professional courses is mainly supported by THE Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (IAIR) of the School of Telecommunications, Microsoft Research Asia and Tencent.

Some teachers suggest that since artificial intelligence has many research directions, many universities generally make clear the research direction of artificial intelligence at the postgraduate stage, and have high requirements for learning, so it is very important to lay a good foundation.

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Experts read

What is the difference between artificial intelligence and computer major?

Jia Wenchuan/expert of Shanghai Key Laboratory of Intelligent Manufacturing and Robotics

Artificial intelligence is a new professional discipline, different from traditional computer science.

Computer major is more general, there are a number of professional directions, such as computer hardware, software development, database, network technology and so on, improve the level of computer software and hardware, improve data computing and processing capacity.

Artificial intelligence is the simulation and reproduction (repetition) of the brain and mind, allowing machine intelligence to catch up with or even surpass the intelligence of the human brain, which is not only a matter of computing power, but also the mode of thinking, the combined judgment of different perceptual information and so on. Subjects related to intelligent computing, bionics and brain science should be included in professional courses.

Above, Chen Ruchu’s humble opinion! I’m sorry if I offended you.