In 20 18, 35 universities in China took the lead in obtaining the qualification of artificial intelligence specialty construction. In the following years, colleges and universities all over the country followed suit, and artificial intelligence became one of the most popular majors in application and employment.
There is a big gap in artificial intelligence talents in China-according to the Analysis Report on Employment Prosperity of New Professional Artificial Intelligence Engineers and Technicians published by Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the gap in artificial intelligence talents in China currently exceeds 5 million, and it will exceed 100000 by 2025, and the ratio of domestic supply and demand is 1: 10, which is seriously unbalanced. Another unbalanced data is that the ratio of men to women in the field of artificial intelligence is 4: 1. Many people take it for granted that girls are not suitable for this job.
In the field of artificial intelligence, there is a huge gender gap among employees. According to the Global Gender Gap Report 20 18, only 22% of artificial intelligence professionals in the world are women and 78% are men, and the ratio of male to female is close to 4: 1, resulting in a gender gap of 72%. The vast majority of global AI talents are distributed in software and IT service industries, followed by education and finance industries, but there is a big gender gap in any industry.
In the artificial intelligence talent pool, there is a similar general trend: machine learning and data structure are the most popular skills, natural language processing, data structure and information retrieval skills are more common in women's skill pool, and some popular emerging skills, such as deep learning, neural network and computer vision, are more rare among female AI professionals than among male professionals.
There is no distinction between men and women in programming, only likes and dislikes. It is reported that the ratio of male to female in the Computer College of Carnegie Mellon University has reached 1: 1 this year. In developed countries such as Europe and America, programming has been included in compulsory courses in primary and secondary schools, and programming is not a patent for boys. Parents who restrict the future development of girls on the grounds that "girls are not suitable for learning programming" can wake up. There is no distinction between men and women in programming learning, only the difference between likes and dislikes.
What is artificial intelligence?
Artificial intelligence is a subject about knowledge ―― how to express knowledge and how to acquire and use it. Another professor, Winston of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, thinks: "Artificial intelligence is to study how to make computers do intelligent work that only people can do in the past." These statements reflect the basic ideas and contents of artificial intelligence.
That is, artificial intelligence is the basic theory, method and technology to study the law of human intelligence activities, construct an artificial system with certain intelligence, and study how to make computers do the work that needed human intelligence in the past, that is, how to use computer software and hardware to simulate some intelligent behaviors of human beings.