Amazon Offers FREE 'AI' Courses: What Is It And How Can You Get Them?

The US-based tech giant Amazon has announced its free educational courses on generative AI through the ‘AI Ready’ initiative, which is designed to provide free artificial intelligence skills training to two million people globally by 2025.

To achieve this objective, the company is introducing three initiatives. Amazon emphasises the high demand for AI talent, highlighting the potential for individuals with AI skills to earn up to 47 per cent more in salaries.

“Amazon is launching AI Ready to help those with a desire to learn about AI and benefit from the tremendous opportunity ahead. The following initiatives are designed to open opportunities to those in the workforce today as well as the future generation,” said Swami Sivasubramanian, vice president of Data and AI at AWS.

The three new initiatives are:

– Eight new and free AI and generative AI courses

– Amazon Web Services (AWS) Generative AI Scholarship, providing more than 50,000 high school and university students globally with access to a new generative AI course on Udacity.

– New collaboration with Code.org designed to help students learn about generative AI

Those interested in Amazon’s free courses can access the initial generative AI training and intro to CodeWhisperer on the AWS Educate site. The remainder of the free courses, including learning to use Amazon’s Transcribe speech-to-text generator, are on the AWS Skill Builder site.

According to the company, for developers and technical audiences, Amazon will offer courses on foundations of prompt engineering, low-code machine learning on AWS, building LLms on AWS and building generative AI applications using Amazon Bedrock.

Amazon is launching AI Ready to help those with a desire to learn about AI and benefit from the tremendous opportunity ahead. These initiatives are designed to open opportunities to those in the workforce today as well as the future generation, the e-commerce giant said.

Amazon says that demand for talent for AI jobs is increasing, and companies are willing to pay higher salaries for those with the skills.