Hwang: Visual and interface designers will see high demand in AI
Tim Hwang · At the Intersection of AI, Governments, and Google - Tim Hwang · Y Combinator · Jun 16, 2017 · at 36:50
Tim Hwang, Google's Global Public Policy Lead on AI, advises on high-impact skill areas for newcomers entering the machine learning field.
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“I think the second thing that's about to be in really strong demand is thinking about the visual dimension of this, right, which is, like, happens on a couple levels. That's both, like, the interface of how you work with machine learning systems, But also just, like, visually how you represent a neural net. Like, if you've read the technical papers, one of the things that you'll see is just, like, that's, like, largely written by machine learning experts, and so, like, they don't really have a good sense of, like, how do you visually portray what a neural net is doing. And that stuff ends up being incredibly important for people to, like, both understand the technology and also be able to, like, use it effectively. And so I think that's another thing that's about to come on the way, is, like, basically a really high demand for people who understand this research. And could give it good voice in terms of, like, representing it visually.”
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