Why India ranks among the top 3 countries in AI skills

Mumbai: The US, followed by China, India, Israel, and Germany, rank as the countries with the highest penetration of artificial intelligence (AI) skills among their workforce, according to a new report by professional networking site LinkedIn.com. The findings, released on Monday, further suggest that while changes driven by AI technologies may still be in their infancy, their impact is being felt across the global labour market in all sectors (https://bit.ly/2OroZdA). Moreover, industries with more AI skills present among their workforce are also the fastest-changing industries. Further, even as AI-- broadly defined as the desire to replicate human intelligence in machines -- has no superpower yet, it is undoubtedly becoming smarter with every passing day following advancements in machine learning and deep-learning algorithms, humongous amounts of Big Data on which these algorithms can be trained, and the phenomenal increase in computing power. These developments have, understandably, given rise to the fear that automation and AI will take away our jobs and eventually become smarter than us.