AI developers must remain versatile while specialisation increases Access AI

What skill sets do you need to work with a world class team of artificial intelligence (AI) developers? We spoke to Misha Bilenko, the head of Yandex's machine intelligence and research (MIR) group, who told us about the trends that he's observed: "It's definitely diverse, even in terms of skill sets, but as the field is exploding you inevitably get more specialisation. Depending on the specific problem, you will need specific skills. "Some people will have the specific skills required to work only on a speech recognition system, or a recommender system, or an image classification system, and then somebody who is just trying to analyse log data will have other specific skills, as will someone doing sales prediction for a company. The developer who provides you with that top 10 list is not solving AI in the glamorous, highly technical sense of the word, but what they're building is doing an amazing amount of things "Even though we could generalise all these roles as being in the AI sub-industry, the skill set may be dramatically different between these specialities, and the differences are becoming more pronounced. "To give an example, one thing that recently has emerged is a clear distinction between data scientists and engineers, where previously the lines were somewhat more blurred.