Amazon launches new free training courses on generative artificial intelligence

The initiative "AI Ready"of Amazon, offers online classes for developers and other technical professionals, as well as high school and college students.

AI Ready involves the provision of a series of courses, a scholarship and a collaboration with Code.org to promote skills of generative artificial intelligence. 

Amazon wants to equip 2 million people around the world with the skills they need for profitable careers focused onartificial intelligence by 2025.

“Amazon is launching AI Ready to help those who want to learn about artificial intelligence and take advantage of the amazing opportunities ahead,” wrote Swami Sivasubramanian, vice president of data and analytics.artificial intelligence at Amazon Web Services, in the announcement of Amazon .

Free training courses on generative artificial intelligence for professionals and beginners

The training courses ongenerative artificial intelligence They are available for free from Amazon via AWS Skill Builder for the audience of developers and technicians:

• Fundamentals of Rapid Engineering.
• Machine learning low-code on AWS.
• Building language models on AWS.
• Amazon Transcribe: How to Get Started.
• Creating applications generative artificial intelligence using Amazon Bedrock.

The following training courses ongenerative artificial intelligence They are available for free on Amazon for beginners and students:

• Introduction to generative artificial intelligence via AWS Educate .
• Learning plan ongenerative artificial intelligence for decision makers via AWS Skill Builder .
• Introduction to Amazon CodeWhisperer means AWS Educate .

Employers are looking for AI skills

73% of employers are interested in hiring people with AI skills, a survey found. survey of November conducted by Amazon and Access Partnership. However, three out of four of the same employers are struggling to find people to meet their AI talent needs.

“If we want to unlock the full potential of AI to tackle the world's most challenging problems, we must make AI education accessible to anyone with a desire to learn,” Sivasubramanian wrote in the announcement post.

The AWS Generative AI Scholarship for High Schools and Colleges

Amazon will offer a total of $12 million across 50.000 grants Udacity for high school and college students from disadvantaged and underrepresented communities around the world. Scholarship recipients will have access to free courses, hands-on projects, on-demand technical mentors, coaching industry mentors, career development resources and guidance in building a professional portfolio.

Interested students can apply on the site of the AWS AI & ML Fellowship Program .

Amazon and Code.org collaborate on Hour of Code for students

In collaboration with Code.org, Amazon will host Hour of Code during Computer Science Education Week, from December 4th to 10th, for students and teachers involved from kindergarten to high school. The one-hour introduction to programming and artificial intelligence will invite students to create their own dance choreography usinggenerative artificial intelligence.

Code.org it works on AWS e Amazon provided free credits for the cloud computing AWS worth up to $8 million per Hour of Code.

AI Ready courses add to your existing library of AI and cloud resources

These courses, scholarships and events are in addition to the free cloud computing courses Amazon's existing . Amazon aims to equip 29 million people with the right skills for a career in cloud computing by 2025.

Amazon also offers more than 80 free and low-cost training courses through its AI and machine learning educational content library of AWS. Taking some of these courses alongside generative AI training could broaden your understanding of how different AWS and Amazon capabilities work together, as well as contextualize their place in the broader world of AI and ML technologies.

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