In 2023, with the birth of ChatGPT, a new wave of artificial intelligence revolution has swept again, and "AI, artificial intelligence, ChatGPT" has become a very hot topic at present.
In addition, the popularity of related professional applications continues to rise, and the artificial intelligence major has ranked first in Baidu's professional big data hot list for three consecutive years. The news of the establishment of artificial intelligence majors in various colleges and universities, and the "intelligence + engineering" major on this basis has never been interrupted, in this context, it is expected that artificial intelligence will continue to be one of the key majors considered by students for a long time in the future.
So, what exactly about artificial intelligence majors? What are the future employment directions?
Hot, high-paying, sought-after, artificial intelligence has always been the "sweet potato" of the talent market
In fact, artificial intelligence talents have always been the "sweet potato" in the talent market.
A new McKinsey study shows that by 2030, China's demand for AI talents will increase sixfold from the current level, that is, from 1 million to 6 million, while only about 2 million AI talents can be provided in the market, so there will be a shortage of 4 million AI jobs in China in 2030.
Previously, the "New Vocational Online Learning Platform Development Report" released by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of the mainland also pointed out that the current domestic supply and demand ratio of artificial intelligence talents in the mainland is 1:10, and the talent gap will exceed 10 million by 2025. This is double the 5 million gap predicted in 2018, and AI talent is extremely scarce.
The shortage of talents has also caused the salary of AI-related positions, which has also been rising.
According to the "ChatGPT Related Field Employment Insight Report" released by Liepin Big Data Research Institute, in the fourth quarter of 2022, the new positions in artificial intelligence were 2.74 times that of the first quarter of 2018, with an average annual salary of 331,500 yuan.
Source: Liepin
In the three areas of pre-trained models, conversational bots, and AIGC, which are closely related to ChatGPT, the demand for talents is even stronger. According to the "ChatGPT Related Field Employment Insight Report", AIGC's new jobs increased by 42.51% year-on-year in the past year; followed by pre-trained models, with a year-on-year increase of 20.37%; New jobs for conversational bots decreased by 31.47% year-on-year.
The average annual salary of the three recruits exceeded 330,000, and AIGC ranked first with 390,800; conversational bots came in second with 348,900; The pretrained model is 339,300.
Therefore, popular, high-paying, and sought-after have always been the biggest characteristics of artificial intelligence majors.
As a strategic emerging industry, artificial intelligence is gradually penetrating into all walks of life, and employment prospects are broad
With the wide application of artificial intelligence technology in all walks of life, more and more enterprises and organizations need talents with artificial intelligence professional backgrounds to carry out technology research and development, business innovation and application promotion, and the employment prospects of artificial intelligence majors are very broad.
For example, traffic (vehicle search violation monitoring), the Internet (voice recognition, photo recognition), medical (CT scanning), logistics (unmanned delivery), agriculture (automatic picking), automobiles (intelligent driving), manufacturing (automation), etc., are accelerating the application of artificial intelligence technology, and there is a great demand for artificial intelligence majors. Especially after the explosion of Chat GPT, artificial intelligence majors have broad employment opportunities in the fields of language processing and natural language generation.
In addition, as a strategic emerging industry in mainland China, artificial intelligence has indelible significance in promoting economic development, improving national security, promoting smart city construction, accelerating scientific research, and improving people's lives, so it is also strongly supported by the central and local governments. In 2022, the scale of the core artificial intelligence industry in mainland China will reach 508 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 18%. The mainland's artificial intelligence industry is deeply integrated with the real economy and has become a new growth engine for economic and social development.
In general, the artificial intelligence industry has become a strategic emerging industry in the mainland, with very broad prospects for future development, and greater career development space for practitioners.
Under artificial intelligence, there are more and more jobs and more opportunities to choose
With the gradual penetration of artificial intelligence in all walks of life, the employment direction of artificial intelligence after graduation is becoming more and more abundant. The main jobs are:
Algorithm Engineer - Conduct research on cutting-edge algorithms related to artificial intelligence, the main directions are video algorithm engineers, image processing algorithm engineers, audio algorithm engineers, communication baseband algorithm engineers, signal algorithm engineers.
Machine Learning Engineers – Machine learning engineers are responsible for using big data and algorithms to build AI models for data analysis and prediction.
Image recognition engineer - Image recognition refers to the technology that uses computers to process, analyze and understand images to identify various patterns of targets and objects. At this stage, image recognition technology is generally divided into face recognition and commodity recognition, face recognition is mainly used in security inspection, identity verification and mobile payment, and commodity recognition is mainly used in the process of commodity circulation.
Natural Language Processing Engineers – Natural language processing is an important direction in the field of computer science and artificial intelligence. It studies various theories and methods that enable effective communication between humans and computers in natural language. Therefore, natural language processing engineers are mainly responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining natural language processing technologies, such as speech recognition, semantic analysis, and so on.
Intelligent robot R & D engineer - R & D direction is mainly engaged in robot control system development, high-precision device design and development, etc. The direction of industrial robot system integration mainly does workstation design, electrical design, device selection, robot debugging, programming, maintenance, etc.
AI application and development - AI application and developers are mainly responsible for applying AI technology to specific business scenarios, such as intelligent customer service and intelligent manufacturing.
Of course, in addition to the above positions, there are artificial intelligence operation and maintenance engineers, smart home system engineers, human-computer interaction designers, intelligent hardware engineers, etc., I believe that with the continuous development of artificial intelligence technology and the increase in society's demand for AI talents, more new positions will continue to emerge.
In short, the artificial intelligence major is definitely the main theme of development today and even in the next few decades, interested students can apply for the major, and the absolute "money" will be great after graduation.
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