Corresponding presentation deck for "Bridging the AI Skills Gap" webinar. Webinar Recording Link: https://udacity.zoom.us/recording/share/RdDpowZeCY6ay7UbBG7Jbab0JLWmdB2ymsYVzLcBwDawIumekTziMw

1. Bridging the AI Skills Gap
February 15, 2019

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Ripped from the Headlines
As we predicted last year, upskilling non-AI
professionals to work with AI has become a
crucial part of workforce strategy.
2019 AI Predictions - Six AI Priorities You Can’t Afford to Ignore
PwC Study
January 16, 2019 article
Gartner research indicates that companies
need to shift from external hiring
strategies towards training their current
workforces and applying risk mitigation
strategies for critical talent shortages.

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Agenda
● Introductions
● Basic understanding of AI and Machine Learning
● How companies are using AI
● Skills gap and talent shortage
● Use cases and outcomes
● Overcoming the Skills Gap

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Housekeeping
● Everyone is set on mute
● If you have questions, please submit them via the Question box on
your panel. And please, we’d like this to be interactive, so feel free to
submit questions throughout
● If we do not get to your question, we will try to follow up after the
webinar
● We will be recording the webinar and will send it out in our follow up
● Join us for an ongoing conversation via twitter using #aiskillsgap

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Introductions
Varun is the head of AI and Data Engineering at Udacity.
He was the founder and CEO of Terminal.com and
previously a Google Research Scientist. He received his
PhD from Stanford University’s Computer Science
department with a focus on probabilistic machine
learning applied to computer vision.
Mat is Product Lead for Udacity's School of Artificial
Intelligence. He is a former physicist, research
neuroscientist, and data scientist. He did his PhD and
Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California,
Berkeley.

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AI Defined

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The Basics of Machine Learning?

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How are Companies Using AI?

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Poll 1 - Does your company have an AI initiative?
I am not sure
No, we don’t have one and are not planning one
We are currently planning our AI initiative
Yes, we have one in place now

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Skills Gap and Talent Shortage

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Industry demand
High growth with short supply
● The AI job market has grown at an
incredible rate in the last five years
and it isn’t slowing down
● Over 1,100 new AI startups emerged
since 2016, fueling demand for AI
skills
● 4.5x growth in jobs requiring AI skills
in the US since 2013
Gartner Survey Shows 37 Percent of Organizations Have
Implemented AI in Some Form
January 21, 2019 article
The number of enterprises implementing
artificial intelligence (AI) grew 270% in the past
four years and tripled in the past year, according
to the Gartner, Inc. 2019 CIO Survey. Results
showed that organizations across all industries
use AI in a variety of applications, but struggle
with acute talent shortages.
Six of our 15 emerging jobs are related in some
way to AI. Five of the jobs have machine
learning as a top skill, while four others call
for mastery of Python, a programming code
often used in AI projects.
LinkedIn’s 2018 U.S. Emerging Job Report
December 13, 2018 article

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Massive skills shortage
Demand has outpaced supply
● An estimated 2.3M people are needed
to fill the global AI talent pool. However,
there are only 300K current global AI
researchers and practitioners
● That knowledge of AI tools and
concepts, combined with practical
experience, is a priority for many
recruiters
● Growing disparity between the hiring
power of companies and the present
scarcity of AI talent has big implications
As the democratization of AI and deep
learning applications expands—possible not
just for tech giants but now viable for small-
and medium-sized businesses—the demand
for AI professionals to do the work has
ballooned as well.
Forbes - The AI Skills Crisis and How to Close the Gap
June 25, 2018 article
Sixty-three percent of respondents indicated
that a talent shortage was a key concern for
their organization.
Gartner Survey Shows Talent Shortage Is Now the Top
Emerging Risk Facing Organizations
January 17, 2019 article

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Talent Shortage #1 Risk
January 16, 2019 article
Gartner research indicates that companies
need to shift from external hiring
strategies towards training their current
workforces and applying risk mitigation
strategies for critical talent shortages.

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Poll 2 - What skills will be critical for your success?
Data Science
Deep Learning
Machine Learning
AI
Programming

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Outcomes and Use Cases

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FunTorch - Real-time Sign Language Interpreter

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Pneumonia Detector

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Deep Learning Air Pollution forecaster
A Deep Learning Air Pollution
forecaster that shows how to
use deep learning for
weather related predictions
If we know the weather on Tuesday and
the pollution on Monday we can
calculate the pollution on Tuesday

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Overcoming the Skills Gap
● Specific skills to acquire
● Learning paths
● Udacity Nanodegrees
○ Immersive Curriculum - Hands-on learning, interactive content, measurable progress
○ Supported Journey - Experienced reviewers, engaged and dynamic student community
○ Real-World Projects - Industry-designed projects, actionable feedback, portfolio-ready results

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Q&A
Varun Ganapathi
varun@udacity.com
Mat Leonard
mat@udacity.com