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Brainy Fact
Of 1 million, 75% registered companies have already invested in Machine Learning
Preferred Skills to get a Job in AI Field
As you know that every organisation wants skilled employees. to be an employee in the AI
field, you must have some specific skills. Let us discuss about some of them in detail.
Soft Skills
It is said that AI can replace hard-skilled employees and employees with greater soft skills will
always remain in demand. Empathy, leadership, collaboration, creativity are some key skills that
will always be in demand.
• Data Literacy Skills: It is said that ‘There is no good AI without good data’. AI analysis can be
biased if the data source is not reliable. Employees with strong data literacy can recognise the
wrong patterns which will be useful for AI training.
• Collaboration Skills: Organisations expect their employees to work in a collaborative
manner. Departments like Design and Marketing need to collaborate with each other to
reach to user experience and develop machines accordingly.
• Critical Thinking Skills: The ability to think critically will be more important for
employees, as such people will come up with innovative ideas, solve complex
problems using logic and reasoning.
• Leadership Skills: The workplace in future will have project-based teams, remote teams with
flexible structure unlike present day hierarchical structure. So, individuals will need traits like
being inspiring, helpful and the best versions of themselves to be better leaders.
• Adaptability Skills: With fast changing scenarios specially the advancement taking place in
the field of AI, employees with the ability of flexibility and adaptation will be much more at
peace and will take these developments as an opportunity to grow.
Technical Skills
Technical skills are the abilities or knowledge used for practical tasks in the field of science,
technology, engineering, etc. Following are some of the technical skills required in the field of AI:
• Programming Languages: In the field of AI, one must know how to work with programming
languages which is essential in order to design various machines. Java, C, C++, R, Python, etc.
are examples of such languages.
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