FREE AI Classes from Amazon

Amazon is encouraging individuals to explore into the realm of AI, aiming to provide them with the essential skills for AI-related roles. Recently in a blog post, the tech giant unveiled “AI Ready,” a new initiative set to provide free AI skills training to millions of people by 2025. The initiative encompasses eight complimentary classes designed for different experience levels and purposes. Additionally, AI Ready is to introduce a new generative AI courses to over 50,000 high school and university students. In collaboration with Code.org, Amazon is also working to educate students about generative AI.

Focusing on the free classes, Amazon asserts that whether you are a novice in the AI domain or a seasoned professional seeking skill enhancement, AI Ready offers a class tailored to your needs. While Amazon hosts more than 80 other AI classes and resources on AWS, not all of them are offered free of charge.

These classes cater to diverse lengths, experience levels, and topics, covering a range of use cases. One notable example is the “Introduction to Generative Artificial Intelligence” course, which is envisioned to be beneficial for individuals seeking a foundational understanding of generative AI principles.

For those interested in the business and non-technical aspects of AI, Amazon provides three courses:

1. Introduction to Generative Artificial Intelligence: A fundamental course akin to Generative AI 101.
2. Generative AI Learning Plan for Decision Makers: Comprising three courses, this class guides participants in planning generative AI projects and preparing their companies for generative AI integration.
3. Introduction to Amazon Code Whisperer: This class instructs users on leveraging Amazon’s AI code generator.

On the technical front, Amazon offers five developer and technical classes:

1. Foundations of Prompt Engineering: Providing a grounding in prompt engineering, a crucial skill for interacting with generative AI.
2. Low-Code Machine Learning on AWS: Geared towards those with a basic understanding of coding, this class demonstrates building AI models without extensive technical expertise.
3. Building Language Models on AWS: Instructs participants on utilizing SageMaker training libraries to construct language models, foundational for generative AI.
4. Amazon Transcribe—Getting Started: Teaches the utilization of Amazon Transcribe, a tool converting speech to text.
5. Building Generative AI Applications Using Amazon Bedrock: Guides individuals in constructing generative AI applications using Amazon Bedrock.

While Amazon’s initiative has the potential to empower individuals with valuable AI skills, it remains to be seen how these courses will resonate with the diverse audience they aim to serve.