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The 2024 government work report proposes to deepen the R&D and application of big data and artificial intelligence, carry out the "artificial intelligence +" action, and build a digital industrial cluster with international competitiveness. The State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council recently held a special promotion meeting on artificial intelligence for central enterprises, proposing to carry out AI+ special actions, strengthen demand traction, accelerate the empowerment of key industries, build a number of industrial multi-modal high-quality datasets, and create a large model from infrastructure, algorithm tools, intelligent platforms to solutions to empower the industrial ecology.
Recently, the Ministry of Education issued a notice announcing the first batch of 18 typical cases of "artificial intelligence + higher education" application scenarios. In order to actively promote the integration and development of higher education and artificial intelligence technology, and use intelligent technology to support the innovation of talent training models, the reform of teaching methods, and the improvement of educational governance capabilities, the Department of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education organized the collection and demonstration of the first batch of "artificial intelligence + higher education" typical application scenario cases, and searched, excavated and promoted representative, forward-looking and positive higher education practice cases in the application of artificial intelligence technology.
After the application of colleges and universities, expert demonstration and other links, the first batch of 18 typical cases of "artificial intelligence + higher education" application scenarios were determined. Cases such as the AI-enabled interactive online teaching platform of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the innovative "AI+" classroom teaching intelligent evaluation of Beijing Normal University, and the intelligent crop production practice of Northwest A&F University were selected.
Looking back at the talent development of the artificial intelligence industry in mainland China:
——Analysis of the supply and demand of artificial intelligence talents in Chinese: the supply of talents in the field of artificial intelligence exceeds demand
According to the 2023 AI Talent Insights Report released by Maimai, as of August 2023, the number of new jobs in the field of AI has reached the level of the whole of 2022. With the increase in the number of new jobs, the contradiction between supply and demand of talents in the field of artificial intelligence has further intensified. In 2022, the supply-demand ratio of talents in the AI industry was 0.63, and from January to August 2023, this ratio dropped to 0.39, which is equivalent to 5 jobs competing for 2 talents.
-- Analysis of the supply and demand of talents in artificial intelligence sub-regions: talents are mainly concentrated in first-tier cities
According to the "2023 Report on the Development of China's New Generation of Artificial Intelligence Technology Industry", as of December 2022, a total of 440 colleges and universities in mainland China have offered artificial intelligence majors. Among them, colleges and universities in the Yangtze River Delta region offer the most artificial intelligence-related majors, accounting for 18.72%. The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region ranked second, accounting for 13.47%; The Sichuan-Chongqing region accounted for 7.76%.
As of August 2023, Beijing's AI talent accounts for 26.37% of the country's total, far ahead of other cities. This is followed by Shanghai, which accounts for 12.92% of the country's AI talent. In third place is Shenzhen, accounting for 9.40%. Overall, more than 7 percent of AI talents are concentrated in first-tier cities.
-- Colleges and universities offer artificial intelligence-related majors
Compared with foreign countries, the cultivation of artificial intelligence in mainland universities started late, but in recent years, the disciplines and majors of artificial intelligence in mainland China have been accelerated, and a multi-level artificial intelligence talent training system has gradually taken shape. In April 2018, the Ministry of Education issued the "Action Plan for Artificial Intelligence Innovation in Colleges and Universities", which proposed to establish 50 artificial intelligence colleges, research institutes or interdisciplinary research centers by 2020.
In 2019, the Ministry of Education issued the Notice of the Ministry of Education on Announcing the Filing and Approval Results of Undergraduate Majors in Ordinary Colleges and Universities in 2018, and a total of 35 colleges and universities across the country were awarded the first batch of undergraduate professional qualifications for the construction of "artificial intelligence".
According to the analysis of the Prospective Industry Research Institute, with the continuous evolution of artificial intelligence technology, artificial intelligence has been applied to all aspects of people's daily production and life. At the same time, the risk of AI has caused widespread concern, so the need for safe and trustworthy AI technology has increased to an unprecedented height, and the development of reliable and controllable AI has become a global consensus. On the other hand, with the improvement of the digitalization process of traditional industries, massive data and rich application scenarios will be provided, opening up new space for the application of artificial intelligence and further integrating it with all aspects of society.
Looking forward to the future, what changes will "artificial intelligence +" bring? Liu Gang, chief economist of the China New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Strategy Research Institute and director of the Economic Research Institute of Nankai University, believes that artificial intelligence has created the possibility of creating "killer" applications. "Disruptive changes often occur in large-scale application scenarios, such as the application scenarios of intelligent networked vehicles, which will promote the recombination of technology and knowledge, and disruptive technologies will be generated in the process of combination, and this disruptive technology will bring about fundamental changes in society. ”
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