Post de Carlos Andrés Peña

🗑️🎓 In Switzerland, more PhDs graduate each year than the total number of full professors in Switzerland. “Working hard” won’t be enough. 🫠 More depressing numbers_ 👉🏼 4’611 PhDs awarded in 2022 in Switzerland. Total number of professors: 4’383. 👉🏼 From 2017 to 2019, 937 people were hired as professors (including tenure-track), which is 13 times less than the number of PhDs awarded, 12’620. 👉🏼 Of all postdocs (postdocs, not PhDs!) in Switzerland, only 2% will become professors. 👉🏼 The median age to be tenured is 46 years old. 🚶 Before you get the Holy Grail of a professorship, you can expect no long-term security, short-term contracts, a highly hierarchical working environment, a huge workload, and poor mental health. 🎺 📑 More details in this excellent article in the Horizon magazine: https://lnkd.in/e9aW577N 💡 Where you can read potential solutions (a model in which professorships would exist alongside senior, mid-level faculty and a senior management team) 🥲 And this quote: “It’s just not normal for a system to be able to generate so much suffering and despair.” Bernard Voutat I agree!

Le Dicastère Recherche et Innovation de la HES-SO Haute école spécialisée de Suisse occidentale consacre son nouvel appel à projets stratégiques pour les chercheuses et chercheurs de l'institution au thème "L’intelligence artificielle au service de la société : opportunités, défis et risques". Nous nous réjouissons de recevoir vos propositions. https://lnkd.in/e8_hzVxb

Come and visit us at the AMLD - Applied Machine Learning Days conference in Lausanne next March 25 and 26. On both conference days, we will have a permanent exhibition on our booth “HES-SO – Swiss AI Center for SMEs”. On the 26th of March from 14:00 to 15:30 we organize the track “Accelerating the Adoption of AI by SMEs”. The speakers will cover emerging technologies, methods and applications aiming at helping SMEs accelerating the adoption of AI in their digital portfolio. Here is the line up of the track: - "Activities of the Swiss AI Center for SMEs and fast-prototyping AI services", Jean Hennebert, Sébastien Rumley - "Adoption of AI by SMEs", Yvan Cognasse - "Low-resource spoken translation pipeline for SMEs", Andrei Popescu-Belis - "LLM-based ChatBot for SMEs powered by document knowledge", Emmanuel de Salis - "Q&A session with audience and speakers on ways to accelerate the adoption of AI by SMEs", animated by Hatem Ghorbel The Swiss AI Center from HES-SO provides services, tools and formations for SMEs willing to adopt AI in their digital portfolio. The Swiss AI Center is a relay to a network of more than 150 engineers and researchers in AI that can help industries and organizations accelerate the adoption of AI. #AI #SWISSAI #SME #AMLD2024

We don't need to teach our children how to code according to NVIDIA's Jensen Huang. *cue the record scratch* But wait, he may be right! What if we learn how to be more productive, creative, imaginative, curious, and inventive in how we work with AI? "I want to say something and it's going to sound completely opposite of what people feel," Jensen said on stage at the World Government Summit. "Over the course of the last 10 years, 15 years, almost everybody who sits on a stage like this would tell you it is vital that your children learn computer science." He continued, "Everybody should learn how to program. And in fact, it's almost exactly the opposite. It is our job to create computing technology such that nobody has to program and that the programming language is human. Everybody in the world is now a programmer. This is the miracle of artificial intelligence. The countries, the people that understand how to solve a domain problem in digital biology or in education of young people or in manufacturing or in farming, those people who understand domain expertise now can utilize technology that is readily available to you." Here, make sure this cognitive exoskeleton fits. 🦾