Re:Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree in Artifici...
by bkanber on Thursday May 10, 2018 @10:33PM
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AI is a broad field. Much of it is applied these days.
Even setting a very high bar for what constitutes "AI", I would concede that Google Assistant, Siri, Alexa, and Cortana are AI systems. How many jobs are there supporting those products today? How many will there be 5 years from now when these kids graduate?
But there are many other AI products out there, and moreso, machine learning is now widespread as a supporting tool in very many places. The data science field of today/tomorrow is ML and AI, and we definitely will need more practitioners.
Even setting a very high bar for what constitutes "AI", I would concede that Google Assistant, Siri, Alexa, and Cortana are AI systems. How many jobs are there supporting those products today? How many will there be 5 years from now when these kids graduate?
But there are many other AI products out there, and moreso, machine learning is now widespread as a supporting tool in very many places. The data science field of today/tomorrow is ML and AI, and we definitely will need more practitioners.