Can't Find AI Professionals? Train Them.

A technology recruiting firm is having such a hard time finding artificial-intelligence professionals that it is offering a training program that covers the subject, with tuition costs covered if they agree to work for a client company. Modis Inc., a subsidiary of Switzerland-based global staffing company Adecco Group AG, this spring began testing a program in the U.S. that offers courses on topics including machine learning, some of which are open to people with little or no background in computer science.