Posted on 11/27/2018 7:44:03 AM PST by unlearner
New free AWS machine-learning training offers everyone the same curriculum that its employees use.
Amazon has announced new, free courses in machine learning, offering all developers the same curriculum that it uses to train its own software engineers and data scientists.
The company has over 30 online machine-learning courses, including video, labs, and documentation that have been used within Amazon for the past 20 years.
The courses are split into four main tracks, catering to developers, data scientists, data platform engineers, and business types.
Developers, for example, are offered courses that teach machine-learning building blocks, how to build machine-learning applications, computer vision and natural language processing.
For business leaders, the courses promise to demystify artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning, as well as help them understand the terminology and how to use AWS machine-learning services to build models and add intelligence to applications.
The courses are being offered as part of a new AWS Certification Machine Learning, which uses an exam format to test to and validate a person's knowledge about machine learning, such as which approach is optimal for a given business problem, and which AWS services to use for a machine-learning application.
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I take it that you are a survivalist who welcomes your future robot overlords. ;-)
“It’s free, just like some apps, which gather data on the user.”
I don’t think the value they are deriving is from user data here.
They probably recognize the need to attract developers to their ecosystem in order to remain viable in their competition with other big players like Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, etc.
But it is a much better system than something like Salesforce which offers expensive training and certifications in order to participate in a closed, proprietary ecosystem. I believe Amazon is providing some true value in this case.
What’s in it for Bezos?
Coding is tough. If I had to do all over again so would have started learning to code young.
Now, if I click on one of those links, will Bezos know?
They directly activate the “shut off this guy’s Amazon account.”
I don’t understand the mind of a billionaire, especially a liberal one.
However, getting developers acquainted with Amazon services will give them a competitive advantage to recruit the best talent and stay on the forefront of AI.
AI is probably going to shape our future more than any other technology over the next few decades.
AI will probably shape our future for the rest of the century and beyond. So why am I not learning it?
Thank you.
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