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Summary

Amazon has launched the AI Ready initiative to train 2 million individuals in artificial intelligence by 2025, offering free courses, scholarships, and educational collaborations.

Abstract

This week, Amazon announced its AI Ready initiative, aiming to equip 2 million people worldwide with AI skills by 2025. Recognizing the transformative impact of AI on the workforce, Amazon has introduced three key components within this initiative: free AI and generative AI courses, the AWS Generative AI Scholarship for students to access a Udacity course, and a collaboration with Code.org to educate students about generative AI. The initiative is part of a broader effort that includes AWS Educate, offering video training and immersive labs without the need for a credit card, and AWS SkillBuilder, which provides certification trainings and webinars through both free and paid versions. The global nature of this initiative emphasizes its inclusivity, ensuring that individuals from around the world can participate and prepare for the future of work.

Opinions

  • The author believes that AI will significantly influence every field in the workforce.
  • Amazon is acknowledged for recognizing the gap in AI skills among workers and taking steps to address it.
  • The initiative is seen as a response to the need for workers to be AI-ready for future job markets.
  • The author highlights the global accessibility of the AI Ready initiative, emphasizing its importance for inclusivity.
  • The author encourages readers to take advantage of the AI Ready initiative and also recommends trying out ZAI.chat, an AI service positioned as a cost-effective alternative to ChatGPT Plus (GPT-4).

This Week In AWS Community: AI Ready Initiative

This week Amazon announces its AI Ready initiative to train 2 million people globally in artificial intelligence by 2025. Of course, I have all of the details here!

Artificial intelligence is here to stay and will affect every single field of the workforce. Amazon recognizes that most workers don’t have the AI skills necessary to prepare for the future of work. Below are the 3 initiatives within AI Ready

The AI Ready Initiative has 3 components:

Outside of these three initiatives, you can check out AWS Educate and AWS SkillBuilder. AWS Educate has video training at different levels and its own immersive labs. You do not need a credit card on file to use the select AWS Educate labs. Read my AWS Educate post to learn more about this.

AWS SkillBuilder has the AWS certification trainings and webinars along with different AWS-related training. There is a free version and a paid version.

You will need to create an account to use both AWS Educate

I want to stress how this is a global initiative NOT just limited to the US only. If you’re reading this, you can participate.

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