Global Artificial Intelligence Talents Report 2017

Up to the governments of developed countries, down to the technology giant AI start-up companies, all regard AI as a fundamental strategy to enhance their core competitiveness. The top talent who can lead the development of AI, looking around the world, is less than 1000 people, and naturally becomes a hot commodity in short supply. However, the distribution of talents in the field of artificial intelligence is extremely unbalanced, and the competition for talents will become increasingly fierce. There are about 300,000 talents in the global AI field, and the market demand is in the order of millions.

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I. The Current Situation of Global AI Talents under the Leadership of the United States

In terms of talent distribution in global AI industry, the United States occupies an absolute advantage in AI infrastructure, while China is comparable to the United States in application layer. As of June 2017, there are 2617 global AI start-ups. The United States ranked first in 1078 households, followed by Britain, Israel and Canada with 592 enterprises in China.

Artificial Intelligence Enterprises Owned Quantity TOP5

Among them, there are about 78,700 employees in 1078 AI enterprises in the United States and 39,200 employees in 592 companies in China, about 50% in the United States.

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The emphases of AI industry in China and the United States are different.

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20 Top Universities in the Field of Global Artificial Intelligence

At present, there are 367 universities with the direction of artificial intelligence research in the world. Among these 367 universities, the United States has 168, accounting for 45.7% of the world's total. Canada, China, India and the United Kingdom are in the second echelon.

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Universities and related departments with research orientation of artificial intelligence in China

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Comparison of AI Course Settings in Colleges and Universities at Home and Abroad

Overseas: Systematic improvement, interdisciplinary intensive cultivation. For undergraduates, the main courses include mathematics and computer courses. The compulsory courses are as follows:

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Domestic: There is no system, and the faculty is seriously lacking. Chinese universities generally have computer science institutes and software institutes in the field of AI. In terms of training methods, the former combines hardware and software, focusing on research; the latter mainly focuses on software, side application. The differences between the two are as follows:

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II. Global Top AI Talents Panorama

At present, there are about 300,000 AI research and direct practitioners worldwide, mainly in universities, AI emerging enterprises, technology giants and other fields. Among them, there are about 100,000 universities and about 200,000 industries.

The Average Distribution of Top Artificial Intelligence Scholars

Robot scholars are older and machine learning scholars are younger

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More top people in machine learning are willing to work part-time in the industry.

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Young entrepreneurs are strong and aggressive

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Absolute Gender Advantage, Female AI Entrepreneurs Few

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Knowledge gathers, more than two-thirds of the vast majority

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Most of the top entrepreneurs graduated from world famous universities.

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Most entrepreneurs'majors are related to AI

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Google AI Research and Development Team is the largest in the world with thousands of teams.

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Most of the leaders of AI, a technology giant, are post-60 or post-70

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Job-hopping is common and most people have rich working experience.

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IDG's capital is aggressive and its investment amount is twice that of the second place.

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Investors are more interested in computer vision and autopilot projects

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3. Why China's AI talent market will be hard to find

The data show that in the first 10 months of 2017, the demand for AI talents has nearly doubled that of 2016, 5.3 times that of 2015, and the compound annual growth rate of the demand for AI talents has soared by more than 200%.

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Distribution of talents is centralized, with the largest number going north

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Matthew effect, the number of small and medium-sized enterprises is more and the demand is less

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Enterprises are highly educated, and more than half of them have master's degree or above.

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TOP10 AI Talented Colleges and Universities

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Overseas Students as an Important Link in Supplying Domestic AI Talents

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Which major is most popular with AI?

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Regional Distribution of AI Talents

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The post-80s generation has gradually become the core force in AI field

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IV. How do Chinese AI enterprises compete for AI talents

Average monthly salary is 258,000, and recruitment salary is rising.

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Highly paid positions in AI

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The Trend of Empirical Experience Demand for AI Talents in Enterprises

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Distribution of Expected Salary for Talents

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Big factories have charm and low prices should go.

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Fifth, what is the way for China's AI?

Generally speaking, in this situation of extremely unbalanced supply and demand, recruiting teams, large companies have advantages over small ones, international giant companies have advantages over large ones, in a sense, the country has strength over international giants. And the number and quality of American talents in AI are much higher than those in other countries.

In fact, in order to solve the problem of insufficient talents, we should not only attract talents with better conditions, but also strengthen the knowledge reserve of basic research. The realization of AI strategy depends not only on the continuous investment of R&D cost and R&D personnel scale, but also on the training of talents in basic disciplines, especially in the fields of algorithm and calculation. Only by investing more scientific researchers and continuously strengthening basic research can we gain more technological advantages.

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