Microsoft Creates "AI University" To Tackle Talent Shortages - Artificial Inteligence

Microsoft Builds An  Internal AI University Just To Overcome The Shortage Of Skills | AI University.

As part of the program, "Microsoft" employees will receive full information on the different concepts which are important for the development of "Artificial Intelligence".

Everyone wants "Artificial Intelligence" to grow quickly and make life easier (and dependent). 

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"Microsoft" is also trying to attract people to the company by finding talent in conferences and "sponsoring students" through the university provided they accept a job when they have finished studying.

The "Redmond company" arranged a big platform this week at an "AI" conference in Los Angeles, called "NIPS" (The Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems), where "Bishop" and his team hope to recruit more people.

Unlike other companies, "Microsoft" wants to avoid hiring the best "artificial intelligence" teachers just out of college, According to Bishop.

"One of the things we are trying to avoid is getting into a university, transferring all the best teachers and then leaving the tumbleweeds which fly down the halls," he said.

"It could be a short-term solution for some companies, but I do not think it will serve the industry itself, let alone the academy or the nation, to take that vision in the short term."

However, Many of the researchers in the field of "AI" have left "Oxford and Cambridge" in recent years for what is likely to be better-paid roles in "DeepMind", According to LinkedIn.

"Irina Higgins", for example, left her position as a "Machine Learning" tutor at "Oxford" in April 2015 before joining DeepMind as a research scientist in June of the same year. 

"Higgins",  who also completed a PhD in "Computational Neuroscience" and "Artificial Intelligence" in Oxford, before leaving to join DeepMind.

"Salaries in DeepMind" averaged $345,000 (£258,000) in 2016, According to UK regulatory documents cited by Bloomberg.

Furthermore, "Bishop"  who declined to comment on the recruitment of DeepMind, said his lab is funding Masters and PhDs at the "University of Cambridge" and other schools in an effort to pinpoint talent in advance and put it on its side.

"We try to work with them [university] to empower that talent," Bishop said.

"So, for example, we are one of the main sponsors of a master's program at the University of Cambridge". 

Bishop added, Microsoft Research has funded about 200 doctoral scholarships in this century-old institution.

Other technology companies, including "DeepMind", are also funding students through the university, but perhaps not on the same scale. 

"DeepMind" researchers are also teaching "artificial intelligence" and "machine learning" to students, and some even act as "doctoral supervisors".

The staff at "Microsoft Research" in Cambridge also helped develop the new "computer" curriculum in the UK, which replaced ICT in 2014.

But the lack of human power to develop "Artificial Intelligence" could be an obstacle. 

There are not enough men who can teach "Robots" how to do things?

"Microsoft", one of the great talents of technology with goals of "Artificial Intelligence", has established an internal "Artificial Intelligence University" to overcome the talent shortage in "AI". 

Director of Microsoft Research, Chris Bishop, told Business Insider, "his internal training program is intended to give a major and realistic use of "Artificial Intelligence" to people who are intelligent and capable but who have been trained in others domains".

"Microsoft's talent hunting" involves finding potential trainees at "AI conferences" and awarding scholarships to a college student if they agree to work in the company.

The list of Microsoft's competitors in AI includes:

• Google.
• Apple.
• Facebook.

In 2016, the average salary of "AI researchers at Google DeepMind" was around "$345,000 (£ 258,000)". 

They also hired some of the researchers in 2015 who worked as "tutors" in universities.

After all, you can not leave any stone unturned as the "AI competition" is becoming increasingly desperate for the clock tick. 

If you want to find "Artificial Intelligence", you can probably extract the phone and see it in action.

What are your opinions on "Artificial Intelligence"?