As we approach the end of the year,
many people have New Year's resolutions to learn new skills
and with artificial intelligence technology on the rise,
how can people acquire these skills to protect their future career?
Well, joining me now is Jenny Troutman,
director of Products and Services at Aws Trading and Certification.
With more. Uh Jenny, it's good to see you
talk to us more about being A I ready. What does that mean?
Yes, I'd love to. So A I ready is Amazon's new initiative to provide
skills training for anyone globally interested
in learning about artificial intelligence,
machine learning or generative A I.
We have made a commitment to provide free A I skills
training to 2 million people across the globe by 2025.
And as part of this initiative, we just launched three new programs.
One being eight new free Artificial Intelligence
and Generative A I courses online,
free, free for anyone who wants to learn.
And they add to our portfolio of role based
machine learning and artificial intelligence courses that already exist.
Why are these skills and training in these skills important?
So artificial intelligence is becoming core to the way we work,
um, businesses across the US
have indicated that more than 90% of them except expect it
to be core to their operations in the next five years
yet they cannot find
A I skilled talent. In fact, 73% have a priority of hiring
A I, skilled talent, but three or four of them can't find it.
So that's why we believe that building the skills
around A I and generative A I is gonna be
the requirement for businesses to really capitalize on this technology.
How do these skills contribute to the workplace and really the future of jobs?
So,
a study was done with access partnership to identify
that not only are these skills in high demand,
but customers are or companies are willing to pay for them.
So we did in this study,
we found that companies are willing to pay 35 to 47% more in
salary to people in the same roles if they have A I skills
and that's across roles. It's not just techno
technical roles, it's
marketing hr finance and it's because companies recognize
that the future of work is changing.
And A I and generative A I is key to helping them innovate more
and be able to be more efficient and productive. So they need those skills to do it.
Are there limitations as to who can take these courses?
No, we make them available for everyone. Our belief at Amazon is that
we want there to be a community of builders in cloud that are diverse and inclusive.
So we make our courses as many courses as we
can free to people across the globe to take.
They just need to have the desire to learn
Jenny. What is the Amazon web services A I scholarship and its goals for students?
So we partnered with udacity, an online learning company
to make available a month long course on Aws Generative A I
for people to be able to build their A I skills actually hands on.
So it culminates in a project where they show that
they have developed the skills and then earn a certificate
that they can then take to employers
and just lay out for me here. What exactly the scholarship covers.
Yeah. So the scholarship covers the ability to
take the course,
uh gain the knowledge, go all the way through, earn the certificate
and, and complete that area of learning to show that you have the skills and you can
um demonstrate that you'll be able to use them in your role.
Are there any prerequisites or recommended background knowledge that people
would need to have to apply for this scholarship?
Yes.
So the scholarship is,
is largely targeted to high school and university age students,
particularly from underrepresented
um communities and backgrounds.
They need to be at least 16
and then they go to uh they sign up at Aws Deep Racer,
which is also a completely free hands on learning experience
that teaches the foundations of machine learning.
It is important to build that core foundation
understanding of machine learning before moving into the
next level generative A I course. So you take the course, complete it
um show that you completed it
and then you can apply and UDACITY would help you through that
application process.
So give us some tips on how to make the most of the application,
how to really stand out here.
Yes.
What I would say is make sure that you
really are learning the concepts when you go into that
eraser course, that's what's it about. It's about being able to understand
what you're learning and you have to pass an assessment at 80% or higher.
So it's not about um standing out in any other way other than
you're demonstrating your desire to learn by first completing those first steps.
OK. So talk about the dance party A I edition. What is that?
So this one I'm so excited about, it's targeted at K to 12.
We did a partnership with code.org
where students learn are introduced to
uh artificial intelligence through coding
and,
and they go in and they um they play
around with emojis to actually create this music video
and it, it's not about teaching them coding.
It's about showing them the power of the technology
because we believe that as they get older,
this will be how we work.
All right, great tips. Uh, Jenny from Aws Training and Certification. Jenny.
Thank you so much.