“Last week, Amazon announced plans to spend $700 million over the next five years to “upskill” about 100,000 employees. Still, Gates seemed skeptical of the initiative. ‘When Amazon said they were going to retrain 100,000 people, what did that mean? I wasn’t sure, but that was nice of them to say that,’ he said.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.geekwire.com/2019/bill-gates-biggest-impact-ai-may-decades-away-society-needs-prepare-now/amp/
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AI Weekly: Highlights from VentureBeat’s AI conference Transform
“Developing an data strategy should come before considering AI for your business If you “don’t have top-down support and understanding for bottom-up initiatives, you’re going to fail miserably because there’s going to be … a longer timeline for ROI.” Accelerating scale of compute use is “what keeps me up at night.” Advances in optimization and…
Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott sees ‘mind-blowing’ potential for AI, the cloud, 5G and devices
“What you’re going to be able to do with all of this AI is just mind-blowing in ways that are hard to predict.l https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.geekwire.com/2019/microsoft-cto-kevin-scott-sees-mind-blowing-potential-ai-cloud-5g-devices/amp/
UWATERLOO, MICROSOFT PARTNER TO USE AI FOR SOCIALLY-DRIVEN PROJECTS
“Artificial intelligence is a growing driver of Canada’s economy. In 2018, $548 million in venture capital was invested in Canadian AI companies, an increase of approximately 50% from 2017. Canadian job opportunities in the field of AI grew by nearly 500% between June 2015 and June 2017, and this number will only continue to rise….
Microsoft Power Platform update aims to put AI in reach of business users
‘”AI Builder is all about making it just as easy in a low-code, no-code way to go bring artificial intelligence and machine learning into your Power Apps, into Microsoft Flow, into the Common Data Service, into your data connectors, and so on,’ Riley told TechCrunch.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2019/06/10/microsoft-power-bi-platform-update-aims-to-put-ai-in-reach-of-business-users/amp/