Cultivating AI Talents through Real Field Competition

This paper analyzes a Taiwan government program (AIGO). And introduce the heart of it, the competition, where talents may participate in and learn skills through solving real-world problems. The competition can be divided into three sections: 1. Challenges from Industries, 2.Solutions from Talents. 3. Apprentice Program. Challenges from Industries, is where the program gathers industries problems and it is the start of the competition. Solutions from Talents, is where talents join the competition. Talents may propose their concept of solution and prove it thereafter with the cooperation of challenge disclosers. Apprentice Program allows students take part in the competition by either helping challenge disclosers on data cleansing or assisting AI teams in entry-level works. The competition is designed by Project-Based Learning (PBL) for the both AI talents and apprentices to learn all-they-need skills and knowledge by solving real-world problems, and industry management may discover the potential AI application.