Near about 14% of the workforce or 375 million people worldwide could lose their jobs to AI and automation.

Take a step back and look over the year that has gone by. What have you achieved? Are you being monolingual?

For someone in the tech industry, this might render your career obsolete. In times when AI is taking over the world, being monolingual can be a disadvantage.

The very nature of the technology industry requires you to stay updated in the latest tech skills, latest advances taking place in the IT industry. AI engineers are in demand, job opportunities are plentiful, but where are the skilled AI experts?

AI comes up with amazing breakthroughs in the tech industry today. But to get there, they still require skilled AI professionals to take up the responsibility.

As you embark your journey in the AI career these are the topmost programming languages you need to learn: -

Python

CosmicBC is holding a biannual international AI challenge to develop blockchain-based AI algorithms for classification, regression and prediction of crypto-currency price. We are encouraging all undergraduate/graduate students with interest in AI and blockchain technology to participate and we believe this competition would be a great opportunity for students to explore their talents and challenge their creative juices as well as gain a chance to develop an AI model that could potentially be of service.

There is also a grand prize worth $100,000 USD for the team with the winning AI model.

Registration is accepted until the end of the qualification round, 28 December 2018. For more information, please visit our website.