Digital Natives Seen Having Advantages as Part of Government AI Engineering Teams - AI Trends

AI is more accessible to young people in the workforce who grew up as'digital natives' with Alexa and self-driving cars as part of the landscape, giving them expectations grounded in their experience of what is possible. That idea set the foundation for a panel discussion at AI World Government on Mindset Needs and Skill Set Myths for AI engineering teams, held this week virtually and in-person in Alexandria, Va. "People feel that AI is within their grasp because the technology is available, but the technology is ahead of our cultural maturity," said panel member Dorothy Aronson, CIO and Chief Data Officer for the National Science Foundation. We might have access to big data, but it might not be the right thing to do," to work with it in all cases. Things are accelerating, which is raising expectations. When panel member Vivek Rao, lecturer and researcher at the University of California at Berkeley, was working on his PhD, a paper on natural language processing might be a master's thesis. "Now we assign it as a homework assignment with a two-day turnaround.