Lack Of AI Engineers — A Double Edged Sword?

Posted by Priyanka Sangani on February 27th, 2020

The dearth of professionals that engineer AI is limiting the optimization within various industries. But is it a self-restraint that must be adopted, for the sake of humanity in the future?

[[Not quite! While Artificial Intelligence is proficient in performing household chores, it cannot inter-personalize your relationships, or host your guests to a great evening. A human undoubtedly born with severe limitations, which they remedy using machines. However, Artificial Intelligence happens to be limited as well. The best outcome won’t emerge amidst bigoted isolation, but through a mutually realized partnership of strengths and weaknesses.

A draught in AI Engineers will only delay the inevitable — a world fully optimized by Human-Machine interactions. The World Economic Forum (WEF) has stated that even though Artificial Intelligence will be responsible for the loss of 75 million jobs by 2022, it will also give birth to 133 million more. Basically, in due time, automation has the capacity to create more jobs than it can potentially destroy. The current need for the experts who Engineer AI, supplements a crucial vacancy, one that awaits immediate fulfillment — better sooner than later!

Most likely! While we await the positive endgame that Artificial Intelligence can bring about, mass unemployment, and obsolescence of skilled labor is currently plaguing the world as we speak. Swaths of industries have displaced many employees due to severe over-reliance on AI. This has resulted in work forces shifting to automation almost overnight, leaving skilled artisans hard on their luck.

Perhaps the lack of experts who Engineer AI,comes as a self-imposed restraint (and with good reason) — rampant progression in the world of Artificial Intelligence can take a back seat, while the job market comes to term with its potential. The industry can spare the appointment of highly-paid AI Engineers for a little bit more (an average AI Engineer can earn ,000 — ,000 a year) — until then, the world needs to buckle up for an automation wave that’s about to set in.

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