Abstract: The rapid development and industrial application of artificial intelligence produce great need of innovative and practical talents in the field of artificial intelligence. Colleges and universities generally attach importance to the cultivation of innovation and practice ability of artificial intelligence talents. To organize interdisciplinary students to carry out the innovation practice of artificial intelligence is an important way to cultivate students' innovation and practice ability of artificial intelligence. In the teaching practice, due to the fact that students come from multiple departments, their professional backgrounds are quite different, and their cognition degree of artificial intelligence is not deep, they generally lack accurate cognition of the application scene of artificial intelligence. As a result, during the practice teaching of artificial intelligence, it is difficult for students to make reasonable judgments in the key links of topic selection and team formation, which may easily lead to poor learning effect of artificial intelligence practice in the later period. Tsinghua iCenter introduces the ‘Introduction of AI’ course before the artificial intelligence practice, which effectively helps the students to carry out the reasonable selection of research topic and team members. It is evaluated as the most helpful course by the students, and has reference values for the cultivation of artificial intelligence practical talents.

Key words: Artificial intelligence, Interdisciplinary, Innovative practice