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The first year of AI in Chienkuo Technology University

  • Instructor Irene Lee

The first year of AI in Chienkuo Technology University

 

The era of AI has already come, Chienkuo Technology University has tried to adapt to this technological trend and planned to add AI courses in every department and general education center to make sure students are able to connect workplace successfully after they graduate.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the fields in computer science which mainly focuses on solving common cognitive problems related to human intelligence such as learning, problem- solving and recognition of norms. Among them, Machine Learning (MI) and Deep Learning (DL) are the two fields in computer science deriving from AI. The skills applied in these fields can be generally divided into two categories which are “supervised” and “unsupervised”. The former uses trained information made by expected outcomes; on the contrary, the latter does not. The more information provides to AI, the smarter it will become and will learn faster. Companies produce these data every day to optimize solutions of machine learning and deep learning, including collecting or retrieving information from data storage (such as Amazon Redshift), producing real data from the power of the crowd through Mechanical Turk, or gaining information from Kinesis Streams's dynamic inspection, etc. Additionally, due to IoT, sensor skills increase greatly the demand of data which need to be analyzed like origins, locations, objects and event that haven't been researched yet.

Consequently, AI will be applied in every field in the future, such as anomaly detection, fraud detection, customer attrition rate, data personalization, voice recognition, natural language comprehension, search engine recommendation, and categorization/ division of images or videos.

CKTU Chair Professor Dr. Xu Jia Ming (Former President, and Director of National Space Program Office), is also known as Taiwanese “Father of Automation Engineering”. He foresaw the potential technological trend 10-plus years ago, and once established “Android Lab” in engineering department, the development of “Industrial Engineering 4.0 Lab” was thereby erected. Recently he proactively suggested our school to set up AI courses, and soon won the recognition from the heads of administrative and teaching departments. They all consistently agreed to train seeded lecturers and compile AI course materials according to every department's features.

Dr. Xu thought the pace of technological development is rapid, in order to help students to navigate well in workplace in the future, teaching AI courses earlier will benefit them more. Therefore, the school has already been accelerating the pace of preparation, and it is expected to offer AI courses in every department in the next year (2019).

 

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