Amazon is beginning to supply free academic programs on generative AI with an intention to increase “vital abilities” to adults and younger learners in all places. The corporate’s initiative, referred to as “AI Prepared,” is an extension of present AWS-based AI abilities coaching packages provided by Amazon however now contains eight free programs that cowl AI mission administration and growth. Amazon says 21 million individuals have already educated on AWS cloud computing abilities by its packages, and it hopes 2 million will use its AI programs by 2025.
Amazon says that demand for expertise for AI jobs is growing, and firms are prepared to pay greater salaries for these with the abilities, however the programs are additionally geared towards selling Amazon’s personal AI merchandise. Amazon will supply “nontechnical” studying that introduces individuals to the foundations of generative AI, planning tasks round AI, and methods to use Amazon’s CodeWhisperer AI code generator. The remaining programs educate individuals about AWS machine studying and language fashions and the Bedrock AI app maker, which may assist put Amazon’s AI tech on the market amongst large gamers like Microsoft / OpenAI and Google.
These concerned about Amazon’s free programs can entry the preliminary generative AI coaching and intro to CodeWhisperer on the AWS Educate web site. The rest of the free programs, together with studying to make use of Amazon’s Transcribe speech-to-text generator, are on the AWS Talent Builder web site.