Facebook wants to teach you about artificial intelligence now so it can hire you later

"We need everybody to contribute to artificial intelligence," Joaquin Quiñonero Candela, the head of Facebook's Applied Machine Learning (AML) research division, tells Business Insider. Candela is speaking about Facebook itself, sure, as the social network is racing against the other major tech titans to hire as many artificial intelligence and machine learning experts as it can all over the world, even as it makes AI crucial to the way it builds products and does business. But he's also speaking broadly: As Facebook, Google, Microsoft and even Elon Musk make big bets that artificial intelligence is integral to the future of computing, there literally aren't enough experts with the right skills available to hire. "You can't hire enough people who are machine learning experts in the world," says Candela. The company has a new outreach campaign that explains how artificial intelligence is neither scary nor incomprehensible -- it's just another tool in the programmers' toolbelt that can help them build "new experiences," and a set of skills that are going to be incredibly valuable in the future.