Dive Brief:
- AWS is expanding its free AI training portfolio with five new courses, the company said Wednesday.
- The additions include Serverless LLM apps with Amazon Bedrock, Generative AI Learning Plan for Developers, AI Language Service Learning Plan, ML Learning Plan for Intelligent Document Processing and AWS Cloud Quest: Generative AI. The courses cover LLM deployment, fine-tuning via Bedrock and chatbot development.
- The courses broaden the company’s existing training catalog as part of AWS’ push to upskill 2 million people on AI by 2025.
Dive Insight:
Tech vendors have poured billions into their AI initiatives, prioritizing the technology across product roadmaps. But it’s a fruitless effort if enterprises won’t jump on board, which puts pressure on vendors to clear adoption roadblocks.
As companies deployed new AI-powered services last year, they also worked to teach businesses how to use them. Google released several instructional videos related to AI in May, Microsoft launched an AI training course in June and AWS aimed for executives with a generative AI primer course in July.
One of the top drivers of stalled AI efforts is the lack of skilled talent. Nearly all IT pros and executives believe AI projects will fail without AI-savvy teams that can work with those tools effectively, according to a Pluralsight report.
Early adopters have coupled upskilling and training plans with broader implementation strategies in hopes of sidestepping talent troubles down the road. Job seekers are also looking to beef up their skills for better job security and opportunities.
Workers list having a basic grasp of AI among the top three skills needed to thrive in today’s job market, according to a CompTIA report.
