Every week we curate industry news and thought-provoking articles that reflect today’s trends so you can spend more time learning and less time searching. Here’s what we’ve been reading:
Skills Gap In Manufacturing |
| The manufacturing sector is experiencing a skills gap. In September, there were 522,000 jobs open in the manufacturing industry in the United States, a number that’s expected to balloon to 2.4 million over the next decade.
Why you should care: One reason why jobs are remaining unfilled is the false perception of modern blue-collar jobs. Manufacturers should work to educate younger generations about the digital skills required and factory floors of the future. Read the article. |
Deep Learning Needs To Ask “Why” |
| Yoshua Bengio, the scientist who “received a share of the Turing Award, the highest accolade in computer science, for contributions to the development of deep learning—the technique that triggered a renaissance in artificial intelligence” wants to “fix” deep learning. As he explains, the next step in deep learning is to give it the ability to ask “why”. This will help it understand causality in addition to correlation.
Why you should care: When deep learning can go beyond pattern recognition and understand cause and effect, it will get closer to emulating human intelligence. Read the article. |
Virtual Reality Helps With Training |
| Cadets at the Air Force Academy now have the opportunity to train using Virtual Reality (VR) technology. This is allowing cadets to train and develop their skills more quickly than previously possible.
Why you should care: Applying VR for training won’t stop here. It will be useful in other industries as well and this serves as a case study for success. Disruptive technology such as Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, and VR will help people all over the world receive more frequent training and help them hone their skills. Read the article. |
Virtual Assistants Are Joining The Workforce |
Gartner predicts that:
Why you should care: “Ultimately, [Virtual Assistants] used in the workplace and [Virtual Employee Assistants] will increase employee productivity and foster constructive engagement,” said Annette Jump, senior director at Gartner. Read the article. |
