Digital Skills: Artificial Intelligence (FutureLearn)

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Digital Skills: Artificial Intelligence (FutureLearn)

Discover the ability of artificial intelligence to transform your everyday life and reshape the way you work. Identify the skills you will need to work with AI in the future. Artificial intelligence (AI) is used in many businesses to improve the way employees work. On this course, you will learn more about the past, present and future of artificial intelligence and explore its potential in the workplace.

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You will enhance your understanding with interesting facts, trends, and insights about using artificial intelligence. You will also explore the working relationship between humans and AI and the predicted skills needed to work with AI.

What topics will you cover?

Week 1: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

  • What is Artificial Intelligence and where did it come from?
  • AI in Action
  • What does this mean for me?

Week 2: Artificial Intelligence in Industry

  • Impact of AI on Individuals
  • What does this mean for me?

Week 3: Adapting your skills to work with Artificial Intelligence

  • How has the relationship changed between AI and Humans?
  • Imagining the Future

What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

  • Describe the origins and advent of AI
  • Explain the relationship between AI and Automation
  • Reflect on the application of AI to your own context
  • Identify key shifts in the workplace influenced by AI
  • Assess the impact shifts in the workplace may have on roles and responsibilities
  • Identify how the relationship has changed between AI and humans
  • Identify future skills required to work and interact with AI
  • Produce an action plan to adapt your skills for the future

Who is the course for?
This technology course is for anyone with an interest in AI who is looking to improve their entrepreneurial skills, enter the workplace, or change careers.

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