Associate Professor Satoshi Inoue of the Faculty of Engineering and Department of Information Systems, who is in charge of "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence," said, "The ratio of questions on the G test is relatively high from the latest information and technology, but when to take the exam. Because it depends on the situation, the students themselves follow up and learn how to do so (introduction of literature, books, etc.) in the lecture. The content of the lecture is time-sensitive, so there are time constraints. Focusing on universal things such as history, trends, technologies and their mechanisms, self-study is encouraged for those that can be learned by self-study of textbooks. In the future, a group examination system for the G test will also be adopted. We are also considering supporting the acquisition of qualifications. "

　In recent years, the need for AI human resources, which can be said to be an AI boom, is rapidly increasing.According to Associate Professor Inoue, even in job hunting, students who have learned AI are increasingly offered by companies, and in some cases, they offer high compensation.
The government has also announced a strategy of "cultivating 2025 human resources who can apply AI in each specialized field annually in 25."Universities are also seeing movements to create undergraduate and graduate schools in data science and AI, and Saitama Institute of Technology also established a new AI major in April 19.

　The AI ​​major at Saitama Institute of Technology provides engineers who can understand AI mechanisms and development methods from the basics, such as AI programming languages ​​/ exercises, introduction to artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning, and propose ways to utilize AI. It is characterized by having a systematic curriculum to nurture.

　In particular, the university has researchers involved in a variety of AI-related research and development, and by utilizing the human resources and research system in that specialized field, the AI ​​Research Center was established in April 2018 to conduct AI research throughout the university. We have strengthened the system and AI-related efforts. We are actively engaged in research and development on autonomous driving technology as an application example of AI, and in the introduction to autonomous driving, we will discuss how AI technology is useful in the world and how AI technology will change the world in the future. You can learn. From October 4, we participated in the "Strategic Innovation Creation Program (SIP) *" Automatic Driving System "/ Large-scale Demonstration Experiment" as the only private university to participate in the demonstration experiment, and started the demonstration experiment on public roads in the area around Odaiba. It is the only private university that has participated in the demonstration experiment of "automatic operation (expansion of systems and services)" in the second term for the second consecutive term. In 2017, in Fukaya City, Saitama Prefecture, where the campus is located, we cooperated with the prefecture's first public road autonomous driving demonstration experiment, Hyogo Prefecture's first AI autonomous driving bus demonstration operation in 10, and Gunma Prefecture Yamba Dam in 2. Has a track record of advanced research and development that leads private universities in Japan in AI research, such as joint research on autonomous driving and operation technology for "amphibious buses."
 

 

 
　When the AI ​​major was newly established in 2019, 40 applicants flooded into the capacity of 681 people, and the number of applicants in 2020 increased 1.7 times from last year to 1181.
Saitama Institute of Technology is receiving a great deal of attention and expectations in the development of AI human resources whose needs will increase in the future.