Finnish university's FREE online Aritificial Intelligence course

While a lot of companies like Google who have integrated artificial intelligence into their systems, there is a growing curiosity amongst individuals to understand the technology better and how it has started to affect our everyday lives.

Helsinki University in Finland has launched a course on artificial intelligence -- one that's completely free and open to everyone around the world. Unlike Carnegie Mellon's new undergrad degree in AI, which the institution created to train future experts in the field, Helsinki's offering is more of a beginner course for those who want to know more about it.

As you know that Facebook uses AI for facial recognition, a lot of people might not. Indeed, Helsinki's course focuses on the basics, starting with defining what AI is and explaining how it can solve problems. The online course is called The Elements of Artificial Intelligence and is available completely in English.


 
 The materials also discuss how AI is already used in the real world, and in the second part of the course, they explain how machine learning works and what neural networks are.
It will apparently take you about 30 hours to complete the course, which can earn you two academic credits through the Open University if you're from Finland. If you live elsewhere, you'll just have to make do with a certificate you can display on LinkedIn.

 

To enroll in the course, there are no prerequisites and it is available globally.
You have an option to do the course at your own pace, but they recommend trying to finish in 6 weeks, however, according to their understanding, having a deadline makes it more likely that students will finish the course.

The course was designed by the University of Helsinki and Reaktor. The lead instructor of the course is Associate Professor Teemu Roos and the course is a part of the AI Education programme of the Finnish Center for AI.

This article  "Finnish university's FREE online Aritificail Intelligence course" is first time published on IoT Vigyan Online Technology Blog.

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AWS Innovate Online Conference Special Edition - Machine Learning | Registrations Open

There is AWS Innovate Online Conference Special Edition – Machine Learning on the 22 February 2018 which is focused on how Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning services drive innovation, deliver seamless customer experience and business outcomes for you. This conference is designed to enable data scientists, developers, IT professionals and executives looking to bring new ideas to reality and build for tomorrow.
There is a
What to Expect?

• Learn best practices to develop sophisticated models with any framework
• How to automatically discover, classify, and protect sensitive data in AWS.
• Use API-driven services to add intelligence to any applications.
• Build, train and deploy machine learning models to process data.
• Understand how creation of machine learning-based solutions provide comprehensive analytics and accelerate the development of innovative algorithms.

To register and know more please click on this LINK.


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• Head : 'Paytm - Build for India' initiative by Paytm)
• Founder : Fun2Do Labs ('Making education OPEN and FUN!')
• Mentor - Digital Business : Delhi Press (One of India's largest magazine publishing house)
• Author : Mobile Phone Programming (India's first book on mobile app programming)
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Prevalent Tech Jobs in IT till 2025 and beyond

The technologies on Gartner Inc.’s Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2016 reveal 03 distinct technology trends that are poised to be of the highest priority for organizations facing rapidly accelerating digital business innovation.

Transparently immersive experiences, the perceptual smart machine age, and the platform revolution are the 03 overarching technology trends that profoundly create new experiences with unrivaled intelligence and offer platforms that allow organizations to connect with new business ecosystems.

The future of jobs is not as gloomy as many fear. The nature of work will change and so will the skills required for it.

NASSCOM and BCG went beyond theorizing and analysed 8 technologies to come up with 55 unique job roles that will gain relevancy in near future. Here is an overview of the technologies and the number of new job roles they offer.

When we say jobs will vanish on a mass scale, we also need to highlight that many more job roles will be created with new technologies and tools coming up.

Key take away from the above is that most jobs are applicable to technical , mid level management. As most of the areas are new and evolving,the prospect candidate can not have long or moderate working experience in these ares, so the HR / Employees must check the other following critical skills for these jobs of the future :

• Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
• Collaboration Across Networks and Leading by Influence
• Initiative and Entrepreneurship
• Agility and Adaptability
• Initiative and Entrepreneurship
• Assessing and Analyzing Information
• Curiosity and Imagination
• Effective Oral and Written Communication

If you have any comments, questions,suggestion..kindly write down in comment box.

NASSCOM :The National Association of Software and Services Companies is a trade association of Indian Information Technology and Business Process Outsourcing industry.

BCG :Boston Consulting Group
Image Courtesy : Gartner, NASSCOM

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