AWS Launches &#8216;AI Ready&#8217; Initiative to Upskill 2 Million People for Free by 2025
AWS India has introduced the ‘AI Ready’ initiative aimed at democratising AI education by offering free training to two million individuals by 2025. This initiative is a response to the burgeoning demand for AI talent, evident from a recent study conducted in collaboration with Access Partnership. The study revealed that AI-skilled professionals could potentially earn up to 47% more in salaries, underlining the critical need for an AI-proficient workforce. Spearheaded by Swami Sivasubramanian, AWS’s vice president of Data and AI, the ‘AI Ready’ initiative aims to make AI education accessible to all interested individuals catering to present and future workforce AI skill needs. The study highlights that 73% of employers prioritise hiring AI-skilled talent, yet three-quarters of them struggle to meet their AI talent needs. Looking ahead, 93% of businesses anticipate integrating AI solutions into their operations within the next five years, cementing AI’s pivotal role in shaping the business landscape. Under ‘AI Ready,’ AWS has introduced eight new, free AI and generative AI courses, addressing the demands of contemporary job roles. These courses cover a spectrum from foundational to advanced levels, targeting business leaders and technologists. They complement AWS’s existing repository of 80+ free and low-cost AI courses, aiming to bridge the knowledge gap in AI education. The initiative offers diverse courses like ‘Introduction to Generative Artificial Intelligence’ and ‘Generative AI Learning Plan for Decision Makers’ via platforms such as AWS Educate and Skill Builder. These courses are tailored to non-technical professionals, introducing essential AI concepts. Developers and technical audiences also benefit from courses like ‘Foundations of Prompt Engineering’ and ‘Low-Code Machine Learning on AWS,’ facilitating AI learning without extensive prior knowledge in the field. Additionally, AWS announced the Generative AI Scholarship, allocating over $12 million in scholarships to over 50,000 high school and university students globally. This program grants access to the ‘Introducing Generative AI with AWS’ course on Udacity, culminating in a certificate upon completion. In collaboration with Code.org, Amazon Future Engineer introduces the ‘Hour of Code Dance Party: AI Edition,’ an engaging session introducing students to coding and AI concepts. This interactive program allows students to create virtual dancers’ choreography, offering insights into generative AI using popular songs. The ‘AI Ready’ initiative forms part of AWS’s broader commitment to provide free cloud computing skills training to 29 million individuals by 2025, and has already trained over 21 million. Explore opportunities at aboutamazon.com/29million.
The initiative, responding to soaring demand for AI talent offers eight new, free AI courses addressing contemporary job roles.
The initiative, responding to soaring demand for AI talent offers eight new, free AI courses addressing contemporary job roles.
[]
["API", "machine learning", "artificial intelligence", "AWS", "AI", "cloud computing", "Aim", "prompt engineering", "generative AI", "R"]
["AI", "artificial intelligence", "machine learning", "generative AI", "Aim", "prompt engineering", "cloud computing", "AWS", "R", "API"]
Shyam is a tech journalist with expertise in policy and politics, and exhibits a fervent interest in scrutinising the convergence of AI and analytics in society. In his leisure time, he indulges in anime binges and mountain hikes.