US No. 9 in world in preparing students for jobs

US No. 9 in world in preparing students for jobs The science and technology skills, as well as soft skills, to support artificial intelligence (AI) and automation are lacking. Robotics, computational thinking and AI skills will be particularly in demand. Preparing teachers through professional development and additional training is how the top five countries … Link

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Robots are helping some workers, instead of taking their jobs

Robots are helping some workers, instead of taking their jobs Julie Sweet, CEO of Accenture North America, tells Yahoo Finance in the video above that “artificial intelligence”—computers that can learn like humans and do some intellectual work—has allowed her firm to eliminate lower-skill jobs and train those workers for other jobs harder to fill. “We

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Magazine excerpt: Rise of the robot

Magazine excerpt: Rise of the robot The major concern for this new job market is how to ensure we can succeed in an uncertain market. Hence, given our jobs are likely to change, we can either wait until that happens, or do something about it now. A positive perspective. At the heart of business transformation

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These are the best jobs in Canada in 2018

These are the best jobs in Canada in 2018 Using salary and growth, Indeed has scoped out the best jobs in Canada right now. The popular job site has found that nine of the top ten jobs included are tech-related with Machine Learning Engineer, Full Stack Developer and DevOps Engineer rounding off the top three.

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AI Gets New Benchmark

AI Gets New Benchmark “If systems become faster, we can unlock the potential of machine learning a lot quicker,” said Peter Mattson, a staff engineer on the Google Brain project who announced MLPerf at a May 2 event. An early version of the suite running on a variety of AI frameworks will be ready to

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CareerBuilder Works with Google Cloud on Consumer Job Search

CareerBuilder Works with Google Cloud on Consumer Job Search Chicago and Atlanta: The recruitment and HR technology company, CareerBuilder is working closely with Google Cloud to advance the industry with next generation job search. CareerBuilder was one of the early testers of Google's cloud-based machine learning solution (Google Cloud Job Discovery) … Link to Full Article:

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