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For the past two decades, AI has played an increasingly significant role in our lives. It has done so quietly behind the scenes, as AI technologies have been employed by companies around the world to improve search results, product recommendations, and advertising, and even to assist healthcare workers to provide a better diagnosis. AI technologies are all around us, and soon, we’ll all travel in cars that drive themselves!
With this rise in prominence came a rise in demand for relevant skills. Engineers with expertise in machine learning or deep learning are often hoovered up by the big tech companies at huge salaries. Meanwhile, every application on the surface of the earth wants to use AI to improve its user experience. But the ability to hire the relevant skillsets and acquire the necessary volume of data to train these AI models remains a significant barrier to entry.