An Introduction to AI at LinkedIn

Editor's note: The use of AI in LinkedIn products has been the subject of multiple press articles and research papers (some highlighted on this blog). With the release of a new LinkedIn Learning course about AI at LinkedIn, we asked our Head of AI, Deepak Agarwal, for a brief overview of what AI is and how it works, geared towards people who are interested in this growing field. In this post, we discuss AI as a broad topic and look at a few ways that it influences product design at LinkedIn. Back in 2005, I was working in my first job at AT&T Bell Labs. The telecommunications industry was struggling due to price wars and increased competition from wireless carriers.