Artificial Intelligence
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"heading": "Join the revolution",
"content": "Artificial Intelligence (AI) is more than just robotics and self-driving cars—it’s all around us. AI adds the ‘smart’ to smart assistants like Siri and Alexa. It curates your Netflix picks and social media feed. It also drives innovation in medicine, education, and business.\nGlobal demand is booming for trained people who can harness the power of AI to solve complex problems. Become an AI expert to improve the way we learn, travel, shop, work, and live.\nWhile learning about how AI works, you’ll also consider the social, ethical, economic, and cultural impacts of this technology."
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"content" : "This programme is ranked in the top 50 worldwide in
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"heading" : "Ethical AI",
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"content" : "Our AI programme emphasises ethical considerations, ensuring the responsible development and use of AI technologies. We encourage you to carefully evaluate the impact of AI technologies on society, privacy, fairness, and human wellbeing.\nIn our programme, you’ll look at how we can align AI goals with human goals. You’ll learn to create AI solutions that are transparent, unbiased, and beneficial to humanity."
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"heading" : "What you'll learn",
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"content" : "Use new tools and techniques to gain valuable insights. Develop algorithms with a wide range of applications.\nLearn the fundamentals of AI and the knowledge to be able to use current AI, as well as new technology in the future."
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"content" : "You can study AI as the major subject for your Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree.\nYou can also pursue your interest in another subject. This could be as a double major, a minor, or taking courses that interest you as your electives. You could study:\n
- Biology
- Psychology
- Economics
- Health
- Environmental Science
- Linguistics.
By combining AI with another subject, you can develop specialised expertise. You could transform your chosen field and unleash opportunities for positive change.\nSome students choose to do a double major in Data Science and AI, or Computer Science and AI.\nYou could also choose to study a Bachelor of Engineering with Honours, majoring in Electrical and Electronic Engineering—and focus on AI and Machine Learning."
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"content" : "Our AI academics are internationally renowned. You’ll be learning from people who work at the cutting edge of the field.\nThrough your study, you’ll take part in lab work, workshops and seminars, research groups, and networking opportunities."
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"heading" : "️Future career options",
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"content" : "More organisations are using AI in their work. There are career opportunities for people who can understand and choose the right AI techniques to solve their problems.\nAI is applied in areas such as:
- primary industries and manufacturing
- climate change and renewable energy
- economics, finance, and the legal system
- health, cybersecurity, tourism, and computer games.
Future jobs
Your study may lead to a career as a:
- machine learning engineer
- robotics scientist
- data analyst
- AI engineer
- business consultant.
Potential employers
You’ll have the skills to contribute to AI-based advances that impact our health, environment, economy, and daily life. Potential employers include:
- tech companies—Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, PikPok, Xero
- government—the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, the Ministry of Primary Industries, the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), the New Zealand Qualifications Authority
- consultancy firms—Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG, PwC
- other major companies—ANZ, Chorus, One NZ, Powershop, Spark, Trade Me, Wētā FX.
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"heading" : "$16 trillion",
"content" : "Professional-services firm PwC predicts that artificial intelligence will add US$16 trillion to the global economy by 2030. (The
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"heading" : "Scholarships",
"content" : "You may be able to get a scholarship to help fund your studies at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.\n\nWe have first year and school leaver scholarships available, scholarships for returning students in their second or third year of study, and specialised scholarships for different groups and subject areas.
Available scholarships
If you plan on becoming a teacher, you might be able to apply for a Teach NZ Scholarship.\n
Scholarships in Artifical Intelligence
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"content" : "You can apply to tutor undergraduate courses in the School of Engineering and Computer Science. To become a tutor, you need to be in your second year or above and have good results in your courses.",
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"content" : "If you choose to continue to postgraduate study with us after finishing your degree, you’ll join a talented team of well-funded researchers doing innovative work.\nOur AI major is the ideal stepping stone to Master’s or PhD-level study in our well-established postgraduate AI programme.",
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