Intel Execs Address the AI Talent Shortage, AI Education, and the “Cool” Factor

Intel’s VP of AI Architecture and head of AI talent acquisition discuss getting, retaining, and training engineers in an era of high and growing demand Last week, I sat down with Intel’s Gadi Singer, vice president and general manager of artificial intelligence architecture, and Chris Rice, head of AI talent acquisition, to talk about AI workforce issues. Here’s what they had to say. On reports about huge and growing shortages of AI engineers forcing some companies to pay million-dollar salaries: “What you see in the articles is relatively the truth,” said Rice. “One of the interesting things in AI is that it’s no longer just the technology companies that play in this space, you’ve got the finance industry, medical, retail, mobility, manufacturing—they are all starting to recruit AI engineers, whether they are developing a technology or applying a technology. Because of that, there is an increased global demand, and that Continuer la lecture Intel Execs Address the AI Talent Shortage, AI Education, and the “Cool” Factor

Insect-Inspired Vision System Helps Drones Pass Through Small Gaps

Drones that mimic insect behavior negotiate gaps with just a monocular camera Insects are quite good at not running into things, and just as good at running into things and surviving, but targeted, accurate precision flight is much more difficult for them. As cute as insects like bees are, there just isn’t enough space in their fuzzy little noggins for fancy sensing and computing systems. Despite their small size, though, bees are able to perform precise flight maneuvers, and it’s a good thing, too, since often their homes are on the other side of holes not much bigger than they are. Bees make this work through a sort of minimalist brute-force approach to the problem: They fly up to a small hole or gap, hover, wander back and forth a little bit to collect visual information about where the edges of the gap, and then steer themselves through. It’s not Continuer la lecture Insect-Inspired Vision System Helps Drones Pass Through Small Gaps