Amazon conducts talent hunts every year to ensure a strong AI workforce.

Amazon is an eCommerce and tech giant that leverages artificial intelligence to its best and thrives on digital transformation. It is evidently justified by its creative innovations such as Alexa. To continue the rich legacy of digital and AI solutions, Amazon hunts for the most talented skilled artisans in AI. Amazon conducts talent hunts every year to ensure a strong AI workforce that ensures a steady yield of profit and returns on investment (ROI). One effective way Amazon follows to hires the most skilled and astute AI professionals is by taking classes in machine learning.

New data from Gartner Inc. suggests that the recruiting, management, and retention of artificial intelligence talent (AI) will be a strategic challenge globally for the foreseeable future. For the past four years, Gartner found, the strongest demand for talent with AI skills has come from non-IT departments. Departments recruiting AI talent in high volumes include marketing, sales, customer service, finance, and research and development, Gartner said in a press release. "These business units are using AI talent for customer churn modeling, customer profitability analysis, customer segmentation, cross-sell and upsell recommendations, demand planning, and risk management." Gartner TalentNeuron data released Wednesday shows the total AI jobs posted by non-IT departments in Top 12 countries by GDP, grew 74%, to 156,294 through March 2019, from 89,895 in July 2015.

The rapid rise of artificial intelligence adoption is disrupting many industries, most notably the banking and financial services sector. The many individual technologies that are included under the umbrella title of artificial intelligence are promising great opportunities for business efficiencies, but at the same time, creating new challenges. One of these new challenges is determining the best location to relocate or expand offices and service centers of banks, insurance companies, investment houses and other financial services companies that collectively are leading the national charge of incorporating AI technologies into their day-to-day operations. Not surprisingly, with the growing need for the latest in AI skillsets and the academic resources for recruiting and retraining of displaced workers, relocation firms such as Princeton, NJ-based The Boyd Co. are targeting those North American cities that offer superior academic programs in artificial intelligence. Indeed, the ability to provide an artificial intelligence workforce is emerging as a new site selection driver – and one that Boyd expects to soon extend well beyond the financial services sector.