In the spirit of Christmas, Finland has announced it is making its six-week free online crash course in artificial intelligence available for anyone to take. The free online course was originally designed for the citizens of the European nation.
The free programme is precisely a present for the European Union. Finland is giving up the EU’s rotating presidency at the end of the year and has decided to translate its course into every EU language as a gift to citizens.
Also, there are no geographical restrictions as to who can take the course, so really it’s to the world’s benefit.
According to The Verge, the course certainly proved itself in Finland, with more than 1 percent of the Nordic nation’s 5.5 million citizens signing up. The course, named Elements of AI, is currently available in English, Swedish, Estonian, Finnish, and German.
The six sections of Elements of AI, each of which takes approximately 5 to 10 hours to complete.
There are already quite a few sites for people looking to learn the basics of AI, but Finland’s offering seems worth your time if you’re interested in such a thing.
The site is well designed and offers brief tests after every section. It also covers a wide range of topics from the philosophical implications of AI to technical subjects like Bayesian probability. It’s supposed to take about six weeks to finish, with each section taking between five and 10 hours.
The Finnish government said that the programme was originally designed for its citizens to give them an advantage in AI.
The Finnish government said it originally designed the course to give its citizens an advantage in AI.
Megan Schaible of the tech consultancy Reaktor, which helped design the course, said the motivation was “to prove that AI should not be left in the hands of a few elite coders.”
