Switzerland invested easy
Over the course of recent years, Switzerland has been developing its artificial intelligence sector with three different research institutions developed since 1988 which have been leading the world in the creation of artificial intelligence as the future of employment come to fruition in Switzerland. Three of the main research locations in the global drive for artificial intelligence to come center stage across the world are located in Switzerland and were largely created through the work of philanthropist Dalle Molle, according to Medium.
Philanthropists and investors such as Dalle Molle play an important role in the creation of the artificial intelligence industry in Switzerland as they have spent three decades seeking to build a powerful industry which would be a world leader. The arrival of artificial intelligence in education is being led in Switzerland with research labs established at the University of Zurich in a bid to make sure the nation stays at the head of the development of automated software and robotics. Andrew Charlton discusses the importance of education in the development of AI as a way of creating more jobs in the future which will remove the issue of the loss of low-skilled jobs in nations across the planet.
Attracting major companies
Some of the world’s biggest technology-based companies are now making Switzerland their home which will impact the growth of the economy of the European nation in many different ways. Among the major artificial intelligence companies making their way to Switzerland are those who are at the forefront of AI development including the Google-backed DeepMind which was purchased for more than $500 million by the search engine after less than four years in existence and now calls the country its home. Google itself has also made its way to Switzerland to develop its largest campus outside California with a definite focus on the development of artificial intelligence; the Google campus is already home to more than 250 AI engineers from 2,500 housed at the Swiss Google campus already working in a team which could grow to more than 5,000.
The arrival of some of the world’s largest technology companies is not the only area of growth in the Swiss economy as more jobs are added to the entertainment sector through the arrival of Disney. Technology-based employment is a focus for the Swiss office of Disney as this has become the home for those working on computer-generated movies such as “Frozen” in recent years.
Developments continue to attract attention
Already known as one of the world’s leading country’s in terms of innovation, Switzerland is looking to make sure its educational and research developments are of the highest order and used to attract the top businesses in the world to the country. The arrival of Google in Switzerland can be linked to the development of its speech-related software released with no small measure of success in 2015. Much of the work of Google in Switzerland is thought to have taken place following the decision to base the speech-related software of the tech giant on the Long-Short-Term-Memory research of Swiss researcher, Dr. Jurgen Schmidhuber in the 1990s. In fact, the speech-based software of Google would not be able to operate without the research of the Swiss technology expert who is seen as one of the parents of the artificial intelligence sector.
Reputation is still a major part of the development of a nation as a part of the artificial intelligence sector as Andrew Charlton states with his study on the Australian artificial intelligence sector. The Australian government is known for failing in its duty to educate low-skilled workers who have lost their jobs to automation over the last 25 years and needs to invest in this sector if the nation is to be seen as a technology leader such as Switzerland. In the coming years, almost every aspect of the Swiss economy will benefit from the development of artificial intelligence and the way this sector will grow in the future.
