Populating database content in Materialize Autocomplete with Jquery - Laravel

gistfile1.txt

 <div class="row">
                <div class="col s12">
                    <div class="row">
                        <div class="input-field col s12">
                            <i class="material-icons prefix">textsms</i>
                            <input type="text" id="autocomplete-input" class="autocomplete">
                            <label for="autocomplete-input">Autocomplete</label>
                        </div>
                    </div>
                </div>
            </div>


<script>
    $(document).ready(function(){ 
        var name = {};
        var technicians = {!! $technicians->toJson() !!};
        for (var i = 0; i < technicians.length; i++) {
                name[technicians[i].first_name] = null;
            }
    $('input.autocomplete').autocomplete({  
    data : name,
    minLength: 2,
    });
  });
  
</script>