Amazon's Offering Free Courses on Generative AI

Amazon is starting to offer free educational courses on generative AI with an aim to extend "critical skills" to adults and young learners everywhere. From a report: The company's initiative, called "AI Ready," is an extension of current AWS-based AI skills training programs offered by Amazon but now includes eight free courses that cover AI project management and development. Amazon says 21 million people have already trained on AWS cloud computing skills through its programs, and it hopes 2 million will use its AI courses by 2025. Amazon says that demand for talent for AI jobs is increasing, and companies are willing to pay higher salaries for those with the skills, but the courses are also geared toward promoting Amazon's own AI products.

Generative AI, you say?

[necro81]

The better to come up with phony product reviews and images!

AI isn't as important as you think

[reanjr]

8/10 stories on /. are about AI related things.

Jesus.

Did they let ChatGPT take over? Cause this is the sort of derivative drivel that pumps out...

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[codebase7]

Did they let ChatGPT take over?

No, it's a bunch of C-levels pushing this in desperate wetdream hopes of using it to justify the firing of everyone beneath them during the next quarter. So they can pick up that sweet sweet bonus for "saving the company $millions."

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[geekmux]

Odd thing about Greed being smart enough to get to the C-level, and yet fucking dumb enough to not realize what happens after the next fiscal quarter.

Gonna be kind of hard to justify the very existence of the company when C-level humans can't manage to find enough humans who still earn a human paycheck to spend on the human products they make for humans to buy, in order to fund a human C-level paycheck.

I guess they lobotomize the concept of don't bite the hand that feeds you in MBA class.

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[gweihir]

8/10 stories on /. are about AI related things.

Jesus.

Did they let ChatGPT take over? Cause this is the sort of derivative drivel that pumps out...

Possibly. Or they have "invested" into that crap and now need a lot of greater fools.

Can I leant to do better nude pictures?

[gweihir]

The current crop all looks very similar and more than a bit uncanny after seeing a few...

Makes sense

[SphericalCrusher]

I seem to recall Amazon offering various AWS training for free years ago after making major announcements for the cloud platform. Now with the announcement of their new LLM Odyssey... this lines up pretty well IMO. I passed it around at work and will try to find the time to take it.