Becoming an Artificial Intelligence Specialist: Qualifications, Skills, and Job Outlook

In this article, we will discuss how to become an Artificial Intelligence Specialist and for that what qualification and skills required as well as job profile, salary, top industries which hire.

We are sure that after reading this article we will have a complete idea about the Artificial Intelligence Specialist job.

What is Artificial Intelligence?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a field where a machine or a computer can correctly understand and apply intelligence on certain data and take action to achieve the desired result. AI has a long history back in the summary of 19656.

The data which an Artificial Intelligence machine uses is called algorithms. An algorithm is set programming developed by human intelligence that can be applied by a machine or computer to execute a task to get a result.

The digital assistants, chatbots, speech recognition tools, biometrics, robots, and self-driving cars are designed and develop through Artificial Intelligence.

The individual who is qualified or skilled to work on such data and create an algorithm is called an Artificial Intelligence Specialist. The Artificial Intelligence Specialist develops programs and applies to the computer so that computers can work like human intelligence.

The specialist not only develop programs but they also test hypotheses of a computer to how the human mind works through cognitive simulation

Some Examples of AI

In simple words, Artificial Intelligence is when a computer or a machine shows a form of intelligence and perceives its environment and takes actions that enable them to achieve their goals successfully.

When we talk about a career in AI, AI is one the branch of computer sciences that focus on the development of intelligent machines which can think and work like humans. For example, speech recognition, fingerprint recognition for security purposes, interpret data and solves problems.

I hope now you have some idea about Artificial Intelligence & Artificial Intelligence Specialist.

“Everything we love about civilization is a product of intelligence, so amplifying our human intelligence with artificial intelligence has the potential of helping civilization flourish like never before – as long as we manage to keep the technology beneficial.” – Max Tegmark, President of the Future of Life Institute

Let’s start to understand Artificial Intelligence career…

A career in Artificial Intelligence

There are plenty of job opportunities in Artificial Intelligence for the AI aspirant. Artificial Intelligence is one of the most prominent and trendy jobs in the IT sector nowadays.

The machine learning engineer, data scientist, business intelligence developer, Data Mining Analyst, Robotics Programmer, Video Game Programmer research scientists, and an artificial engineer are in some of the AI jobs.

A lot of Artificial intelligence machines are being designed and developed in every part of the world. But still, there is a huge scope of designing & developing machines in robotics, computer vision, speech recognition machine, chatbots, online assistants (like Siri), game playing, expert systems, autonomous vehicles (Self-Driven Car, Drones), facial recognition machine and much more.

Qualifications required for Artificial Intelligence Specialist

The job of artificial intelligence specialists is purely a combination of math, technology, logic, and engineering-based knowledge. Hence an artificial intelligence specialist is required a significant amount of high level of education and experience in the field.

If you want to become an artificial intelligence specialist then you must possess the following qualification.

A bachelor degree in the following areas:

• Computer science
• Information Technology
• Mathematics
• Statistics

There are many colleges & universities offer an integrated course in artificial intelligence.

Most of the artificial intelligence specialists also enroll for a postgraduate degree or a Ph.D. in computer science or cognitive science to enhance their knowledge.

Skills required for Artificial Intelligence Specialist

Apart from a bachelor’s degree, the aspirant looking for a career in AI must have the following wide range of technical competencies and business skills which required to becoming mast in the Artificial Intelligence field:

1. Technical Skills

• Programming languages like R, Python, Java, and C++ which required to understand concepts like data structures and classes.
• Statistics, Linear Algebra, and Calculus which required to understand algorithms and machine learning.
• Natural Language Processing (NPL) which required to understand and process human languages by machine.

2. Business skills

• Industry knowledge required to understand the real-world business scenario and its pain areas.
• Communication Skills required to communicate complex language in a simple way to others.
• Critical Thinking skills will help them in analyzing and finding insightful outcomes. Numbers and data are a critical part of AI Specialists.

Artificial Intelligence Job Description

The main responsibility of Artificial Intelligence Specialist is to utilize their analytical, statistical, and programming skills to will be responsible to design, implement, and maintain data architecture and services to be used for AI/ML collect, analyze, and interpret big data sets to provide solutions to difficult business challenges.

The job profile or description always varies from employer to employer. We have here provided a sample job description of a data scientist. This is for illustration purposes only.

Coordinate and work with data analysts and engineers to understand the business requirements

Responsible for Machine Learning model designing, training, analyzing, validation and tuning

Work as a Research scientist and responsible for researching, analyzing and exploring various Machine Learning algorithms

Validating Machine Learning model inputs/ outputs & verify accuracy.

Deploying validated Machine Learning models to production

There are many more responsibilities that come under job description changes from employer to employer.

Artificial Intelligence Specialist Salary

Artificial Intelligence Specialist is being paid by companies much more than any other IT professionals. The technology is growing so faster that there is a gap in the talent pool.

Due to this talent gap, the requirement of an Artificial Intelligence Specialist has exceeds than available. There is a vast gap in demand vs supply.

“The Artificial Intelligence industry has grown by close to 35 percent in the last years to USD 230 million. Yet, over thousands of positions in the world remain vacant due to the shortage of qualified talent at the mid and senior level”

After analyzing the Artificial Intelligence Specialist salary trends across the market (Glassdoor), we have brought you the 5 country’s Artificial Intelligence Specialist salaries of February 2020.

Country	Lowest Salary (Annual)	Average Salary (Annual)	Highest Salary (Annual)
United States	$72K	$118K	$165K
Canada	$38K	$65K	$75K
United Kingdom	$25K	$42K	$65K
Singapore	$6K	$32K	$88K
India	$5K	$11K	$27K

Where the jobs of AI

It is still known whether Artificial Intelligence will create more jobs or it will destroy jobs in the future.

Currently, there is a huge requirement of artificial intelligence specialists in the world due to high competition among the countries. Nowadays more and more people are learning this skill to grab this emerging career option of the future.

Since the last 4 years hiring growth in artificial intelligence has grown 75% annually as per the survey of LinkedIn.

Here is the list of top 10 countries that are hiring most of the Artificial Intelligence in the world.

1. China
2. USA
3. Japan
4. UK
5. India
6. Germany
7. France
8. Canada
9. Australia
10. Poland

Which Top industries hire…..

Artificial intelligence specialists mainly work with the following industries

1. Healthcare

AI nowadays helping doctors. Microsoft has developed an AI machine that helps doctors to find the right treatment for cancer patients. 

2. Automotive

today hundreds of companies are working for developing AI for self-driven cars. There are many functions and components are working on AI in Self-driven car-like map & navigation, braking, and lane changing, etc.

3. Finance and economics

This sector is using AI for the last 5-6 decades for managing operations,  bookkeeping, accounting, online stock trading, and managing various financial tools. This sector is using AI very effectively I reducing fraud and financial crimes.

4. Cybersecurity

Nowadays many countries are facing cybersecurity threats from cyber hackers. By using AI for cybersecurity many organization is trying to avoid the various type of hacking attacks like theft of financial data and personal data.

5. Government

The government is using AI for surveillance using people’s biometric data. AI helping the government is tracking unemployment, giving benefits to needy people, and identifying criminal people.

6. Video games

All video games are designed and developed only by Artificial Intelligence. The video game industry is most using AI.

7. Military

Military is using AI for better communication, accuracy, threat detection & identification, identification of enemy positions, and better sensor systems.

8. Hospitality

Hotel industry using AI as a service chatbots, collecting customer satisfaction data and analysis

9. Audit

Artificial Intelligent is being used to work on big data and audit them and then provide a result for analysis.

10. Advertising

AI is being used to collect data from the digital footprint and predict the behavior of customers. This analysis is being used for increasing user experience and increasing making strategies.

We have tried to provide maximum data in this article. I hope this will provide you a proper understanding of a career in the Artificial intelligence field.