Tencent says there are only 300,000 AI engineers worldwide, but millions are needed

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Tencent says there are only 300,000 AI engineers worldwide,but millions are needed

• "Tencent’s new “2017 Global AI Talent White Paper” suggests the bottleneck here is education. It estimates that 200,000 of the 300,000 active researchers are already employed in various industries (not just tech), while the remaining 100,000 are still studying. Attendance in machine learning and AI courses has skyrocketed in recent years, as has enrollment in online courses, but there is obviously a lag as individuals complete their education."