Baidu artificial intelligence covers all walks of life

Baidu's artificial intelligence covers all walks of life, and the talent gap will exist for a long time. It is the dynamics of talent shortage, and the demands for talents in each period are different. At the hottest time of artificial intelligence wave, many big manufacturers are robbing algorithm talents.

When artificial intelligence is applied to industry, the scarcity of high-quality skilled talents has gradually attracted people's attention. To solve the dilemma of AI talents is not only a quantitative challenge, but also the diversity of talents.

The rule of the world lies in talents. When more and more professional and skilled talents flood into artificial intelligence, a new era of technological innovation is approaching, regardless of its origin. The ideal talent structure should be a typical pyramid model, and the current talent structure is lacking at both ends.

Innovative talents are committed to promoting the innovation of cutting-edge technologies and core theories of artificial intelligence, followed by industrial R&D talents, who can build cutting-edge theories of artificial intelligence into algorithm models for solving problems, and application development talents, whose work focuses on understanding industrial needs and transforming algorithm models into engineering paths.

At the bottom, the talents with practical skills, who understand the basic concepts of artificial intelligence technology and can combine with specific application scenarios, account for 47.89% of talents from the United States, far ahead of other countries in the world. The number of AI talents from China ranks second, accounting for only 11.43% of the total.

Innovative R&D talents affect the height of artificial intelligence, technical application talents determine the breadth of AI application, and compound talents who know both professional technology and artificial intelligence are the inducement for many large factory engineers to debug codes in factories.

The beginning of artificial intelligence can be traced back to Dartmouth Conference in 1956, and the two waves of artificial intelligence in the middle came to an end. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon and other universities founded artificial intelligence technology-related laboratories in 1950s and 1960s.

Southeast University and Tsinghua University set up the State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Technology and System. Around 2018, there was a phenomenon that big scientific and technological companies grabbed academic talents. Many colleges and universities offered artificial intelligence majors, and 80% of the talents belonged to algorithm talents.

Actively introduce external resources such as enterprises, governments and internationally renowned universities, and carry out comprehensive cooperation with famous artificial intelligence enterprises at home and abroad such as Microsoft, Lenovo, Baidu, Tencent, Ali, Huawei and Xunfei, and set up a number of practice and training bases and joint laboratories.

Although they are all digital blue-collar talents and application talents who graduated from well-known universities, have solid theoretical foundation and programming ability, and can make artificial intelligence land on the production line, the problem is that they are still in a state of scarcity and lag.

The artificial intelligence enterprises represented by Baidu have promoted the cultivation of artificial intelligence talents by means of textbooks, courses and competitions. The cultivation of AI talents, especially high-level scientific research talents, takes a relatively long period of time.

The training of AI talents in China started relatively late. It is necessary to improve the number of talents, focus on the quality of talents, and increase the training of innovative talents at the source and industrial R&D talents. More and more universities are offering graduate students related to artificial intelligence.

To promote the training of professional talents and deliver skilled backbone talents to the society, vocational education should aim at the new technologies and industrial changes in the digital age, and vigorously cultivate high-quality technical and technical talents. Whether in universities or enterprises, the training of professional talents is easier said than done.

At present, the application of artificial intelligence is still in the market development period, which makes it difficult to determine the curriculum system standard of vocational education. Coupled with the lack of practical teaching platform, there is a mismatch between students' ability and market demand, and the vocational education of artificial intelligence is in a dilemma.

Li Yanhong put forward the integration of production and education, and trained more than 5 million AI talents for the whole society within five years. He gave a systematic training plan, formulated the national vocational skill standard for AI trainers, and was one of the drafting units of the training environment construction standard for AI technology application majors in higher vocational colleges.

Baidu's artificial intelligence talent training solution has already set up credit courses with more than 360 colleges and universities, including vocational colleges, and conducted pilot cooperation with nearly 300 vocational colleges on the 1+X certificate system, so as to jointly cultivate applied practical AI talents, and 11 vocational education groups have released the talent training plan for great-country wise craftsmen.

Baidu's artificial intelligence covers all walks of life. Faced with the difficulties and challenges of the macro environment, it is necessary to fully recognize the difficulties and fully consider this premise in every work decision. The digital and intelligent transformation provides Baidu with huge growth opportunities.

Baidu's core R&D expenses accounted for more than 20% of Baidu's core revenue for seven consecutive quarters. Baidu AI Cloud's growth rate once again led the industry, and Baidu AI Cloud showed stronger competitiveness in China's digital and intelligent transformation.

In difficult times, we should have rational confidence. Baidu has been trying to change the world with technology and make the complex world simpler with technology. The value that technology brings to people's lives and social production efficiency is certain.

China's digital and intelligent transformation is still in its infancy. Baidu's years of accumulation and long-term investment in technology have made people increasingly feel that Baidu can provide unique value. On the track of long-term dividends, organizations are eager to use technology to improve efficiency and productivity.

Baidu's accumulation in AI for so many years can play a key role. Baidu AI Cloud cut into the core scenes of key industries such as manufacturing, water supply, energy, transportation and public utilities, accumulated industry experience, and precipitated the general needs of different industries into AI products.

Baidu's artificial intelligence covers all walks of life. Through AI innovation, similar cases are replicated across industries. Baidu AI Cloud's profit performance has been further optimized, accounting for a higher proportion of Baidu's core revenue, and its intelligent transformation reflects its stronger competitiveness.

Apollo has taken a key step in building a revolutionary business model and accelerating its expansion. The cost of driverless cars has dropped dramatically, and it has become the first company in China to provide fully unmanned self-driving travel services to the public on an open road. It has driven technological progress on a large scale and further enhanced L4-class self-driving technology.

There is a shortage of both high-level scientific research talents and front-line application talents in China. It is necessary to build an industrial collaboration chain among AI talents, covering the whole growth cycle of talents such as learning, employment, certification, practice and competition, and forming a top-down capability sinking system.

Baidu's artificial intelligence covers all walks of life, and its value not only opens up a landing path for industrial intelligence, but also provides an ecological solution suitable for the current situation of Chinese market for the double gap of AI talents' quantity and quality.

Innovative talents focus on directional research, industrial R&D talents precipitate these studies into algorithm models, and then applied development talents adapt them to different industries. Practical skilled talents finally put the algorithm models into thousands of industries.

Under the impetus of vocational education, a large number of AI technical talents with excellent professional qualities are heading for thousands of trades, solving small digital and intelligent problems, constantly promoting the process of digital economy, and turning talent dividends into productivity.

Talent shortage is the inevitable result of industrial transformation and upgrading. It will take a long time to change the current situation of AI talents in China. As the core technology of the fourth industrial revolution, the industrial influence of artificial intelligence is no less than that of high-speed rail and ultra-high voltage.