Last week, DeepSeek, a Chinese company, launched a free AI assistant that has been hailed by media and users as a worthy competitor to OoenAI's ChatGPT. Notably, the model uses less data at a fraction of the cost of current AI models.
The emergence of DeepSeek caused a global tech stock sell-off, with many AI chip giants losing billions of dollars in one day.
And when DeepSeek became a hot topic, its founder, Liang Wenfeng, and his colleagues became the center of world attention. They are all young Chinese scientists, well-trained in the field of technology. And thanks to such high-quality human resources, world-shaking technology products were born.
From the DeepSeek "earthquake", many lessons can be drawn on the issue of training technology human resources - a field that Vietnam is paying great attention to but still shows limitations in the training process.
Many shortcomings in training high-tech human resources
That is the opinion of Prof. Dr. Nguyen Dinh Duc, Chairman of the Council of the University of Technology, Vietnam National University, Hanoi when talking about the issue of training and developing high-tech human resources in Vietnam.
According to Mr. Duc, the concept of high technology can be understood as spearhead technologies, key priorities in the National Science and Technology Development Strategy; new technologies that bring large and rapid added value to the country; as well as key important technologies that ensure national security that other countries do not transfer, forcing Vietnam to master.
Mr. Duc said that in recent times, Vietnamese universities have paid special attention to training human resources in the high-tech field.
Training programs on information technology, artificial intelligence, electrical and electronic fields, electronic engineering and related fields such as semiconductor chips and microcircuits, nanotechnology, biotechnology, pharmaceutical chemistry, new materials technology and high technologies in healthcare... have been implemented in many major universities such as the two Hanoi National Universities, Hanoi University of Science and Technology and Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Hanoi Medical University...
However, if assessed overall, national capacity in the high-tech field in our country is generally low and small-scale.
The reasons are related to the fact that the staff doing teaching and research in high-tech industries and fields is still limited in both quantity and quality; investment budget is limited; training programs are still limited in quantity and content and lack of conditions, modern laboratories for lecturers' research and practical experiments for students...
"Currently, we do not own or master any source technology or core technology in the high-tech field, but only stop at the level of mastering a few stages, a few processes or a few specialized high-tech elements.
Therefore, the issue of high-tech human resources is a matter of national urgency. In order for Vietnam to grasp the opportunities of the 4th Industrial Revolution and develop high technologies, it requires the vision and planning of the Government and the participation of universities," said Mr. Duc.
Students must have soft skills and analytical thinking.
Many businesses around the world are seeing Vietnam as an ideal destination to seek talent in the technology sector, especially high technology.
Meanwhile, according to experts, higher education institutions in Vietnam are slow to establish and organize training in some specialized subjects such as Knowledge Technology, Computer Vision, Intelligent Cybernetics, AI, etc. The main reason is the lack of specialized lecturers, so the quantity and quality do not meet the requirements of businesses.
Mr. Do Thanh Binh, Director of International Cooperation of Vietnam Software and IT Services Association, informed that in the period of 2025-2030, Vietnam needs about 1 million more IT workers to meet the current technology boom; increase 74% of AI human resource demand, increase 20,000 experts/year related to cybersecurity and increase 30%/year of Blockchain technology related personnel.
To meet the demand for human resources in information technology and digital technology in the coming time, Mr. Binh suggested that the Ministry of Education and Training should have training programs for lecturers with specialized courses to improve teaching capacity. At the same time, create conditions and policies for students and lecturers to participate in technology research projects...
Higher education institutions also need to closely cooperate with each other to have enough resources to grasp and organize training to meet the diverse needs of businesses. At the same time, linking with businesses, creating internship opportunities for students at large corporations, building specialized technology laboratories at key universities...
