"Perhaps, one day, artificial intelligence may prove to be smarter than the smartest human being, or even surpass the collective wisdom of all smartest people put together. Then, what will human beings do?""What kind of reform and revolution will artificial intelligence bring to higher education? And what kind of talents should we cultivate to meet the demand of future intelligent manufacturing development?" Academicians, universities presidents, Deans of AI institutes and scholars from smart businesses had an in-depth exchange and discussion on AI talent cultivation at the Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Talent Training Forum held on May 19 in Tianjin.
As a preliminary event of the 5thWorld Intelligence Congress due on May 20, and one of its summit forums, the Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Talent Training Forum addressed the theme of‘AI+ Education’, and harbored 16 keynote speeches about education reform brought about by AI development and AI talent cultivation in terms ofindustry and education integration, school-enterprise cooperation and high-quality AI education system construction.
It is learned at the forum that Tianjin Municipality has basically completed the discipline layout and institutional integration in the field of artificial intelligence as 6 higher education institutions in the city have set up artificial intelligence colleges, and 11 universities were authorized to confer AI doctoral, master’s and bachelor’s degrees. Emerging programs such as Intelligent Science and Technology, Intelligent Medical Engineering, Robot Engineering, Data Science and Big Data Technology, and Intelligent Manufacturing Engineering have been established and effectively supported the cultivation of artificial intelligence talents.
The Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Talent Training Forum was initiated by Tianjin Municipal Education Commission, and organized by Tianjin University, Tianjin University of Technology and Tianjin Sino-German University of Applied Sciences with the assistance of Tianjin Association for Artificial Intelligence and Tianjin Academy of Social Sciences.
By Eva Yin
