LinkedIn reports that the number of top-level AI talent jumped 66% this year to 36,000 but the demand for such talent has grown even faster.
Khari Johnson filed this report in VentureBeat:
The number of self-reported professionals in the AI field is up 66% in the past year, from 22,000 in 2018 to more than 36,000 today, according to LinkedIn data. The AI tech talent report, compiled by Element AI CEO Jean-François Gagne, is now in its second year and defines demand by listings for AI-related jobs on sites like Indeed.
To arrive at its findings, the report looked at authors and publications from the top 21 scientific conferences that accept papers, such as the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) and the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). Self-reported LinkedIn profile data was also included.
Technologists capable of training and deploying AI systems are concentrated in Canada, France, Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom, with the U.S. representing 44% of PhD graduates. Together, the five nations account for more than 70% of authors of AI research. Italy, Tunisia, Israel, Estonia, and Argentina have seen the highest proportionate growth in AI professional talent in the past year.
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“This year’s findings show a dramatic increase over last year’s global talent pool, which we think reflects the major investments in AI that have been made by both the public and private sectors in countries around the world,” Gagne said in a statement provided to VentureBeat. “Nonetheless, the supply does not yet come close to meeting the demand, and our survey indicates just how far we have to go, given how little top talent there is out there in the world.”
