How Amazon is tackling the A.I. talent crunch – Fortune

This is the web version of Eye on A.I., a weekly newsletter on the intersection of artificial intelligence and industry. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox. Amazon, like other tech giants, is desperately hunting for workers who have an expertise in artificial intelligence. The online retailer has many businesses--its core e-commerce division, the Alexa voice-activated digital service, and the AWS cloud computing unit--that depend on machine learning. But there are relatively few computer scientists who know the technology, and those who do are in high demand.