編譯自：Udacity teams with IBM, Amazon, Didi foronline AI degree
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在線教育企業優達學城（Udacity）周二宣布推出人工智慧（AI）入門階段微學位課程。IBM、亞馬遜和滴滴出行合作參與此項課程，並表示將為畢業生找工作提供捷徑。
「麻省理工、斯坦福等大學在AI教學方面都做得很出色，但他們的課程是供少數博士長期學習的，」優達學城CEO、聯合創始人Sebastian Thrun表示。「而我們所做的是傳遞最新最棒的行業知識，好讓學員迅速地做好準備迎接AI工作。」
隨著各行各業廣泛採用AI技術，市場研究公司Markets and Markets預測，2020年AI市場將增長至50億美元。
Thrun表示，目前專業AI技能人才缺口巨大，預計擁有AI微學位的學員年工資將達至少90000美元。不過，申請課程的學員需具備編程和數學方面的背景知識。
「所有課程合作夥伴都承諾在招聘過程中鄭重考慮我們的學生，」他介紹道。
此項AI微學位課程分兩個學期，每學期三個月、學費800美元。大部分學生需每周學習約15小時。首輪招生截止到11月14號，第一次課程將於明年年初開課。
優達學城最先推出微學位課程，通過和企業合作、利用短期在線培訓讓學員獲得各技術領域的認證證書。
上月，該平臺推出了無人駕駛汽車微學位課程。據悉，自9月13日課程推出，目前已有13000人申請。
Udacity teams with IBM, Amazon, Didi foronline AI degree
Sebastian Thrun, chief executive officerand co-founder of Udacity, has developed a new online course for peopleinterested in a career in artificial intelligence.
Online education startup Udacity announceda new training program on Tuesday for people seeking entry-level positions inartificial intelligence. IBM, Amazon and Didi Chuxing collaborated with Udacityon the AI curriculum and said they would fast-track its graduates for jobs.
「While schools like MITand Stanford do a wonderful job teaching AI, that’s reserved for a small numberof students who spend years getting a Ph.D.,」 said Sebastian Thrun, Udacity CEOand co-founder. 「What we’re trying to accomplish is getting the latest and bestfrom industry experts so individuals can be ready for AI jobs quickly.」
Udacity has pioneered nanodegrees,quick-hit online training leading to certifications in tech fields, by workingwith employers to develop course materials addressing the skills they seek.
Thrun said there’s a huge shortage ofskilled AI professionals and predicted that people with the AI nanodegree couldget jobs paying annual salaries of $90,000 or more. Prospective students need abackground in programming and math.
「All (our partners) madecommitments to take our students very seriously in the hiring process,」although job offers aren’t guaranteed, Thrun said.
The workforce 「increasingly needsprofessionals who understand how to build AI solutions,」 wrote Rob High, vicepresident and chief technology officer of IBM’s Watson division, in a blogpost. The program will cover game playing, search, logic and planning, computervision, cognitive systems and natural language processing, he wrote.
Watson is IBM’s AI platform. The companyalso offers its own certificate for application developers and various onlinecourses.
The AI program consists of two three-monthterms for $800 each. Most students will need to put in about 15 hours a week.Udacity is taking applications until Nov. 14 for the first cohort, which willstart in early 2017.
Last month, Udacity announced a nanodegreeprogram in a similarly hot emerging field: autonomous vehicles.
The Self-Driving Car Engineer nanodegreeprogram has received 13,000 applications since Sept. 13, Udacity said. Itsfirst 500 students will start on Thursday. Fifteen hundred students will startin November, followed by an additional 2,500 in December. The program consistsof three 12-week sessions for $800 each.
The self-driving car program opened withMercedes Benz, Nvidia, Otto and Didi Chuxing as Udacity’s 「hiring partners.」Udacity said it’s now added 10 more potential employers for the graduates. Theyare BMW, McLaren Applied Technologies, NextEv, Local Motors, Elektrobit, HCL,PolySync, Here, LeEco and AutonomouStuff.
Udacity has built a self-driving carprototype and said students will be able to use it to test the software theywrite.
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