9 AI And ML Courses Offered By Tech Giants Which Will Boost Your Career

By now almost every tech company has that the world needs more artificial intelligence and machine learning experts. There are only10,000 peoplein the world right now with the education, experience and talent needed to develop these AI technologies. This acute lack of skill set is hindering digital transformation at enterprises across the globe.

To meet this talent shortage, the tech giants have now become more committed to making ML more accessible to students and developers by offering online courses.

“AI can solve complex problems and has the potential to transform entire industries, which means it’s crucial that AI reflect a diverse range of human perspectives and needs,” Zuri Kemp, technical program manager at Google,said.

Let’s take a look at a few important ML courses offered by some of the noted tech companies:

Google has been pursuing AI education for a while and now, as they want to educate more people in AI and ML with a free online course. Early this year, Googlelaunched a new website called Learn with Google AI. This website is meant to be an information hub for anyone who wants to learn about core ML concepts, develop and hone their ML skills, and apply ML to real-world problems. The new website aims to cater everyone starting from students to curious cats, and advanced researchers. The California-based tech giant has repeatedly stated its goal to democratise AI and make its tools available for everyone.

The Learn with Google AI website also features a free course called ML crash course (MLCC) with TensorFlow APIs. Google originally designed this course for its employees as a part of a two-day boot camp aimed to give a practical introduction to ML fundamentals. More than 18,000 employees have already enrolled in MLCC, enhanced camera calibration for Daydream devices, built VR for Google Earth, and improved streaming quality at YouTube. Now, Google is making MLCC available to everyone.The 15 hours online course includes real-world case studies, interactive visualisation, video lectures, over 40 exercise to help teach ML concepts.

Microsoft is focused on empowering both people and organisations, by democratising access to AI to help solve most of their pressing challenges. Earlier this month, the tech company launched a new course on its tech accreditation scheme, called, Microsoft Professional Program, which is dedicated to AI. This course is aimed at developers who are looking to expand their AI capabilities as well as anyone interested in general AI education. The program consists of 10 courses that cover maths, statistics, Python, data analysis, computer vision, ethics, Azure ML, speech recognition and NLP. Each course takes between eight and 16 hours to complete.

However, these courses are not free. The students need to buy certificates from edX.org  for each course. Once you complete the course you will receive a digitally-sharable Microsoft Professional Program Certificate in AI.

Last year, Amazon launched two new courses to educate developers and leverage AI solutions using Amazon Web Services:

This is a free 40-minute web-based training intended for developers, solution architects and IT decision makers who know about the foundations of working with AWS. It gives an overview of ML,walks through a use case, teaches relevant terminology, and walks the user through the process for incorporating ML solutions into a business or a product.

This is a one-day instructor-led training for developers who are interested in learning more about AWS solutions for deep learning.