Intel Wants to Train 1 Million Edge AI Developers

EE Times ^ | Sally Ward-Foxton

[Kid Shelleen]

Amid rapid growth in AI deployments across a variety of industry sectors, Intel has decided to address the skills shortage in AI-savvy developers by partnering with online technology learning platform Udacity to offer a course in edge AI for developers.

“Historically, students have learned how to build and deploy deep learning models for the cloud. With Udacity, we are training AI developers to go where the data is generated in the physical world: the edge,” said Jonathan Ballon, Intel vice president and general manager, Internet of Things Group. “Optimizing direct deployment of models on edge devices requires knowledge of unique constraints like power, network bandwidth and latency, varying compute architectures and more. The skills this course delivers will allow developers — and companies that hire them, to implement learnings on real-world applications across a variety of fields.”

[Flavious_Maximus]

So they can bring in another 1 million H1B recipients, along with their spouses and anchor babies.

[BenLurkin]

What does this mean? What would they do? Why one million?

[rightwingcrazy]

They said “train”, not “hire”. Perhaps train 500,000 in the US, another 500,000 in Asia, and then have them all compete for 50,000 jobs. Sounds good, for Intel.

[jeffc]

Will they call it SkyNet?

[Starcitizen]

Had to file a complaint with the Texas Labor Board. Recruiter company lists an address in Texas. Seems an Indian recruiter wanted a full copy of my license and social security card. AFAIK, That’s illegal and only to be presented to the employer once hired for e-verify/I-9 purposes. Need to find out what client they represent to inform them.

Getting tired of this Indian recruiter scum.

[dfwgator]

[chrisser]

20 years ago, I would have thought this was great.

But in recent years I’ve noticed a steady decline in the quality of applications and web sites. Dumbassery that would have been either never coded in the first place, or would have been caught by pre-release testing in previous decades, gets released and then persists without being fixed. The quality of development has gone way down, IMHO, and I’m not sure we should be trusting these same people (as a group) with edge AI without some serious oversight.

Just MHO...

[DEPcom]

Thanks for the post. I think I will sign up. Looking into an AI for an image recognition solution (colors and wood grain) to be use in marketing and manufacturing lines.

[DEPcom]

Looks like the article is a little late. The course ran from Dec 16 to March 13.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

When typewriters were invented, typing was a highly paid skill. But as more people learned the skill, over time it became a mundane job with miserable pay. What Intel is advertising for is the 21st century version of the typing pool.
 

[Zathras]

Back in the 90’s, Intel could have created its own University to train Engineers.
Instead the funded H1b startups so they could get cheap labor.
The worst was the 100M they setup for “Itanium software” which got used fund an H1b company near Sacramento.

Eventually it got shut down before stockholders found out.
I really loved working there until Paul retired.