Human capabilities comprise of many valuable elements, and yet there is nothing more significant around here than our ability to grow on a consistent basis. We say this because the stated ability has already fetched the world some huge milestones, with technology appearing as a rather unique member of the group. The reason why technology’s credentials are so anomalous is purposed around its skill-set, which was unprecedented enough to realize all the possibilities for us that we couldn’t have imagined otherwise. Nevertheless, a closer look should be able to reveal how the whole runner was also very much inspired by the way we applied those skills across a real world environment. The latter component was, in fact, what gave the creation a spectrum-wide presence and made it the ultimate centerpiece of every horizon. Now, having such a powerful tool run the show did expand our experience in many different directions, but even after reaching so far ahead, this prodigious concept called technology will somehow keep on delivering the right goods. The same has grown to become a lot more evident in recent times, and assuming one new HRM-themed development pans out just like we envision, it will only propel that trend towards greater heights over the near future and beyond.
Amazon has officially announced the launch of “AI Ready”, which is a new initiative aiming to provide free artificial intelligence (AI) skills training and education to 2 million people globally by 2025. According to certain reports, the stated initiative will, at launch, offer eight new free courses to help adults upskill in AI and generative AI. Apart from that, Amazon has collaborated with Code.org to help younger students learn about generative AI and its potential use cases. Prioritizing in-demand jobs and building upon over 80 courses already available through AWS, the new development, for starters, uses AWS Educate to present a simple and straightforward introduction to generative AI, its applications, and the concepts you almost have to know regarding the same. Next up, there is AWS Skill Builder, which is decked up with a three-course series covering how to plan a generative AI project and achieve a scale where your organization is ready to adopt AI on a holistic scale. Accessible in AWS Educate again, the users can further expect a brand-new offering in Amazon CodeWhisperer. This one is largely rooted in teaching participants how to use Amazon’s AI code generator, a solution best known for manufacturing whole lines of code.
Beyond full-fledged organizations, the AI Ready initiative also has something to give to those individual developers, as well as technical audiences. Here, we begin from foundations of prompt engineering. Once you have a good enough idea in the context of basics, you will have the prospect to pick on more advanced forms too. Complimenting the same is an option to practice designing inputs for generative AI tools. Amazon’s AI Ready initiative even has a low-code machine learning functionality that explores how to prepare data, train machine learning models, and deploy them with minimal coding. Not just coding, you also don’t have to be a machine learning expert in order to conduct such a move. Hold on, there is more, and that more comes from the fact that you can also build language models on AWS. You see, this the program makes possible by informing you on ways to use Amazon SageMaker distributed training libraries. The value proposition here covers telling users about how to fine-tune open source and foundation models. Then, there is a lowdown available on Amazon Transcribe, a fully managed AI service that converts speech to text using automatic speech recognition technology. A similar brand of education is delivered at your disposal when it comes to knowing how to build generative AI applications from scratch using Amazon Bedrock.
“Artificial intelligence is the most transformative technology of our generation. If we are going to unlock the full potential of AI to tackle the world’s most challenging problems, we need to make AI education accessible to anyone with a desire to learn,” said Swami Sivasubramanian, vice president of Data and AI at AWS. “The goal of AI Ready is to help level the playing field of AI education, supported by the new initiatives we’re launching today. We will also scale our existing free AI training programs and courses as we continue to remove cost as a barrier to accessing these critical skills.”
In case the whole program still doesn’t look attractive enough to you, then we must acknowledge that AWS, through its AWS Generative AI scholarship initiative and a partnership with Udacity, will offer you a chance to ear Udacity scholarships. Valued at more than $12 million, these scholarships will be available for more than 50,000 high school and university students from underserved and underrepresented communities globally.
Going back to AWS’ partnership with Code.org now, the company is hoping to leverage that collaboration and launch an Hour of Code Dance Party: AI Edition. This one will see students creating their own virtual music video set to hit songs from artists like Miley Cyrus, Harry Styles, and more. Essentially, they are to code their virtual dancer’s choreography and use emojis as AI prompts to generate animated backgrounds. The purpose of this activity is giving participants an introduction to generative AI, including learning about large language models and how they are used to power the predictive analytics responsible for creating new images, text, and more.
This AI Ready program, though, is just one part of AWS’ wider effort to educate the masses on various technical subjects. To give you an example, the company is also working towards a pledge of teaching more than 29 million people about cloud computing by 2025. Out of that promised figure, AWS has already trained 21 million people.
Another element this whole initiative follows up well on is the growing need for an AI-savvy workforce. You see, according to a new study by AWS and research firm Access Partnership, 73% of employers say hiring AI-skilled talent is a priority, but among these, three out of four say they are unable to meet their AI talent needs. Notably enough, the study also revealed how employers expect their workers to earn up to 47% more in salaries if they upskill in AI. These findings and the trend emerging from it is expected to stay, given that 93% of businesses plan on using AI solutions across their organization over the course of next five years.
Founded in 2006, Amazon Web Services has long been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. Evolving over the years, the platform now has well over 240 fully featured services for computing, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development etc.
