LinkedIn released its list of the top emerging jobs for 2020. These jobs have grown substantially in the last five years, and LinkedIn predicts they will continue to increase demand in the new year. Demand for artificial intelligence specialists grew 74% over the last five years. The job requires fluency in deep learning and machine learning. Cities hiring the most for artificial intelligence specialists include Boston and San Francisco.

Professional networking platform LinkedIn unveiled the Top 15 Emerging Jobs in India for 2020, today. Blockchain Developer, Artificial Intelligence Specialist, and JavaScript Developer are likely to be the top roles in 2020. Among the non-technical profiles are Digital Marketing Specialist and Lead Generation Specialist. India adds 12 million people to its workforce every year. And, as automation makes inroads to the job market, humans are competing with machines to keep up.

The divide between haves and have nots in experimenting and achieving results with machine learning is growing wider. The haves are clearly the technology companies. Facebook, Twitter, Salesforce and others shared significant details on what the of problems they were solving with machine learning and their efforts to standardize and scale their machine learning practices. Technology suppliers also demonstrated their latest capabilities and enterprise offerings with Intel AI, Microsoft Azure, and IBM Watson leading the charge. I reported last year that deep learning was more accessible to mainstream enterprises and at this year's conference, small and large vendors offered a mix of data science platforms, dataops frameworks, and data management tools to help enterprises start and mature experiments in machine learning.

A list of the industries investing the most money in to Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been compiled with agriculture taking the top spot. These results were taken from the report'Harnessing the Power of AI: The Demand for Future Skills' which was compiled by Robert Walters, a global recruiter and Vacancy Soft, a market analysis expert. The report also stated that the uptake of AI, will create 133 million new jobs globally. However, within the UK, 10.5 million jobs will become automated. As businesses become ever more reliant on AI, there is an increasing amount of pressure on the processes of data capture and integration.

Top Skills: Software as a Service, Cloud Applications, Human Capital Management, Enterprise Resource Planning, Solution Selling Where They Work: Oracle, AT&T, Avaya Top Industries: Information Technology & Services, Telecommunications, Computer Software Cities Where Demand is High: Boston, Austin, Minneapolis-St.