UK faces AI skills gap, Microsoft report reveals
(WorldNews Germany)

The UK is facing an AI skills gap that could leave companies struggling to compete with rivals from across the world, a new Microsoft report has revealed. The research, entitled AI Skills in the UK, also found that businesses in this country use less AI than firms overseas, and when they do it tends to be less advanced. UK organisations are also less likely to be classed as `AI pros` compared to the global average (15% versus 23%), and the UK has a higher failure rate of AI than the global average (measured by the number of projects generating no commercial value - 29% versus 19%). The findings raise concerns that as the world starts its recovery from the Coronavirus pandemic, companies in...