For many years, the main goal of companies is to collect as much user data as possible. Dealing with all these and new incoming data quickly and effectively is impossible without intelligent systems. This is why companies desperately need to harness AI technologies to come to the top place among competitors – and the sooner the better.
However, the challenge is that modern AI systems are "idiot savants” as Gurdeep Singh Pall of Microsoft put it in one of his talks. "They are great at what they do, but if you don’t use them correctly, it’s a disaster.” This means that the technologies are still weak and highly depend on human genius.
The biggest obstacle is that the people who have expertise in AI are rare. As stated by The New York Times, today there are fewer than 10,000 specialists who have enough competence and expertise to solve serious AI challenges. When fighting to hire an AI specialist, companies do not disdain any methods, sometimes acting aggressively and overbidding each other by proposed salary sums.