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Microsoft Partners With OpenClassrooms To Recruit and Train 1,000 AI Students (venturebeat.com)
Microsoft is partnering with French online education platform OpenClassrooms to train and recruit promising students in AI and prepare them for the workplace. From a report: OpenClassrooms is one of a number of massive open online course (MOOC) platforms, offering an unlimited number of people access to courses ranging from programming and project management to product design. The company has raised north of $60 million since its inception in 2007, including a $60 million series B round last May. Through its latest partnership, OpenClassrooms will construct programs based on Microsoft's content and project-specific tasks -- these are designed to fill the types of AI roles that are in demand. Though it's reasonable to assume Microsoft is a potential suitor for future graduates, the scope of the program is broader than that -- those who complete the master's-level course will be given access to a range of employers with AI positions to fill.
The AI has escaped the lab. If you find an AI roaming about, please enroll it in one of our courses immediately.
Not that Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Apple or Amazon would need or employ such a thing.
Otherwise there will be protests from the collective on planet Bezos.
Wait until they hound you with brochures
Why go thru all the bother? Just train ONE and then copy it. OH, but that would get the RIAA/MPAA upset.
2004: You wouldn't steal a car, would you?
2004+15: You wouldn't copy a student, would you?
If the universe is someone's simulation -- does that mean the stars are just stuck pixels?
you have to have a degree in mathematics tho, that's bollocks.
Just try.
You won't find a single definition that is compatible with the laws of nature that govern information meta-space, ... or just plain old causality.
It is hence also literally physically impossible to "own". As that word cannot mean anything, when you can never ever tell if nobody else might have a copy too, and can never ever fully control distribution (due to causality).
The simple fact that, unlike matter/energy, you do not lose information that is taken from you, should already make it blatantly obvious that it cannot be a good, nor have a worth.
But then again, worked in the media industries since the 80s, and there is no such thing as a cocaine-free business decision in any of them. So there you go. Now you know where " intellectual property" came from, and why. ^^
People who could pass their exams on merit.
They have the skills to learn to code.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
At least nowadays.
If you are able to simulate a walking USB drive, with legacy I/O (textbooks, blackboards, hand input), then you're good.
In fact, understanding actually hinders your ability to gobble up and regurgitate as much data as robotically possible.
Sorry, every time I hire a student, especially a mathatician, I first have to teach him how to become a person, think for himself, be curious, solve real-world problems and come up with new things for himself.
It has all been successfully trained out of them.
Teacher Commander, does this unit have a soul?
Thanks for the worthless degree, maybe you should have mentioned you’re only accredited in Europe?
my karma will be here long after I'm gone
Sounded like it was free, after all who pays to be a recruit? But the article says the students will receive refunds if they’re unable to find a job. If students are paying, shouldn’t they be enrolling in this class, not recruited? Because recruits do not pay, usually they’re being paid.
my karma will be here long after I'm gone
Don't spook me.