Artificial intelligence is the hot new
college major.
This semester, more than 3,000 students
enrolled in a new college of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity at the
University of South Florida in Tampa.
At the University of California, San Diego, 150 first-year students signed up for a new AI major. And the State University of New York at Buffalo created a stand-alone (used to refer to a computer that can operate on its own, without being connected to a network (= a number of computers connected together)（電腦、企業等）獨立的，獨立運作的)“department of A.I. and society,” which is offering new interdisciplinary degrees in fields like “A.I. and policy analysis.”
The first popularization of products such
as ChatGPT, along with skyrocketing valuations of tech giants such as chipmaker
Nvidia, is helping to drive the campus AI boom.
Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft have
poured billions of dollars into the technology. And this year, Google and
Microsoft announced company efforts to train millions of students and adult
workers on AI.
Now interest in understanding, using and
learning how to build AI technologies is soaring (reaching
a great height高聳的,) and schools are racing to
meet rising students and industry demand.
Over the past two years, dozens of U.S. Universities and colleges have announced new AI departments, majors, minors ("Minors" (複數形式) 涵蓋多重意思，最常見的是指未成年人（未達到法定成年年齡的人）和大學中的副修(輔修)科目 (major的對應詞，指較次要的學科)，也可指次要的、輕微的事物（如次要傷勢），以及音樂上的小調。), courses, interdisciplinary concentrations and other programs.
In 2022, for instance, the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology created a major called “A.I. and decision-making.”
Students in the program learn to develop AI systems and study how technologies
such as robots interact with humans and the environment. This year, nearly 330
students are enrolled in the program—making AI the second-largest major at MIT
after computer science.
“Students who prefer to work with data to
address problems find themselves more drawn (to attract attention or interest吸引，引起（興趣、注意）to an AI major,” said Asu
Özdağlar, the deputy dean of academics at the MIT Schwarzman College of
Computing. Students interested in applying AI in fields such as biology and
health care are also flocking to the new major, she added.
Over the past 15 years, the boom in
smartphones and social media, along with industry promises of high-paying tech
jobs, helped fuel college enrollments in computing. Nearly 173,000
undergraduates majored in computer science in the spring of 2024, compared with
about 65,000 students a decade earlier, according to the Computing Research
Association, a nonprofit that gathers data annually from about 200
universities.
(Natasha Singer)
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