Amazon has introduced an “AI Ready” initiative as a new AWS study finds strong demand for AI talent and the potential for workers with AI skills to earn up to 47% more in salaries.

Amazon is preparing to provide free AI skills training to 2 million people globally by 2025 through the AI Ready initiative. They have launched new initiatives for adults and young learners to achieve this commitment. They are scaling our existing free AI training programs—removing cost as a barrier to accessing these critical skills.

The free AI courses are divided into two categories: Courses for business and nontechnical audiences and Courses for developer and technical audiences. Let us take a look at the courses:

Introduction to Generative Artificial Intelligence: This course introduces generative AI, its applications, and need-to-know concepts, like foundation models. Find it on AWS Educate.

Generative AI Learning Plan for Decision Makers: This is a three-course series covering how to plan a generative AI project and build a generative AI–ready organization. Find it on AWS Skill Builder.

Introduction to Amazon CodeWhisperer: This course teaches participants how to use Amazon’s AI code generator, which produces whole lines of code. Find it on AWS Educate.

Foundations of Prompt Engineering: This course introduces the basics of prompt engineering, the practice of designing inputs for generative AI tools, and advanced prompt techniques. Find it on AWS Skill Builder.

Low-Code Machine Learning on AWS: This course explores how to prepare data, train machine learning models, and deploy models with minimal coding and without deep knowledge of machine learning. Find it on AWS Skill Builder.

Building Language Models on AWS: This course uses Amazon SageMaker distributed training libraries to build language models and fine-tune open-source and foundation models. Find it on AWS Skill Builder.

Amazon Transcribe—Getting Started: This course explores how to use Amazon Transcribe, a fully managed AI service that converts speech to text using automatic speech recognition technology. Find it on AWS Skill Builder.

Building Generative AI Applications Using Amazon Bedrock: This course teaches how to use Amazon Bedrock to build generative AI applications. Find it on AWS Skill Builder.

Amazon scholarship

Apart from the free courses, the company will also offer generative AI scholarships worth $12 million to over 50,000 from across the globe. School and University students from underserved and underrepresented communities are eligible to receive the scholarship, as per the report by Amazon.

Eligible students can take the new Udacity course Introducing Generative AI with AWS for free. The course, designed by AI experts at AWS, introduces students to foundational generative AI concepts and guides them through a hands-on project. Upon successful course completion, students earn a certificate from Udacity to showcase their knowledge to future employers.

Source: Amazon News