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Elements of AI course to be made available in all EU languages

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Re: Elements of AI course to be made available in all EU languages

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Post by bentsku »

JTuck394 wrote: post #50
jotm wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's great, it would be even better if it was open to everyone, you know, in line with EU values (democracy, education for all, freedom, etc.) :/

Agreed. I'll probably get down voted for speaking the truth but at this point opening the course up to EU citizens is doing nothing but protecting power and privilege of (white) Europe. The course should be opened to everyone in the world. Really disappointed but what do you expect? Just goes to show how far we have left to go...

It is free for all. It just means EU languages. The title was incomplete here on HN.

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Post by rat9988 »

JTuck394 wrote: post #50
jotm wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's great, it would be even better if it was open to everyone, you know, in line with EU values (democracy, education for all, freedom, etc.) :/

Agreed. I'll probably get down voted for speaking the truth but at this point opening the course up to EU citizens is doing nothing but protecting power and privilege of (white) Europe. The course should be opened to everyone in the world. Really disappointed but what do you expect? Just goes to show how far we have left to go...

The white term is terribly misplaced.

Re: Elements of AI course to be made available in all EU languages

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Post by paavohtl »

JTuck394 wrote: post #50
jotm wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's great, it would be even better if it was open to everyone, you know, in line with EU values (democracy, education for all, freedom, etc.) :/

Agreed. I'll probably get down voted for speaking the truth but at this point opening the course up to EU citizens is doing nothing but protecting power and privilege of (white) Europe. The course should be opened to everyone in the world. Really disappointed but what do you expect? Just goes to show how far we have left to go...

The course is and has always been available in all countries; this announcement is about translating it to more languages.

Re: Elements of AI course to be made available in all EU languages

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Post by fctorial »

jotm wrote: post #27
pasiaj wrote: post #22

Elements of AI was created as a collaboration by University of Helsinki, the Finnish government and Reactor Innovations, a software consultancy. It was well received by the Finnish general populace. The Finnish government currently acts as the EU presidency, and decided to open access to all Europeans.

That's great, it would be even better if it was open to everyone, you know, in line with EU values (democracy, education for all, freedom, etc.) :/

Registration page doesn't ask you for official credentials and the country selection menu has all of the countries. Educating 1% of European population is just a personal goal.

Re: Elements of AI course to be made available in all EU languages

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Post by Anchor »

purple-again wrote: post #49

Can we change the title to soon free for all or soon available in all EU languages? As you can tell from the comments here the title is unnecessarily divisive and doesn't seen to jive with what the website says or the Finnish governments intentions: Quote from website: "The Finnish Presidency of the Council of the EU has decided to invest in people’s future skills and will make the Elements of AI online course freely…

Makes sense. Changed from "Elements of AI course soon free for all EU citizens" to "Elements of AI course soon available in all EU languages".

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Post by tekkk »

Well.. it is nice, I guess, but really dumbed down version in my opinion to actually be of practical use. Sure it's great publicity for Reaktor and Finland and whatnot, but I'm dubious of its actual benefits. Teaching basic statistics would be much more useful than "AI", but I guess it lacks the hype factor so marketing-wise it wouldn't just be as cool.

It's as if there wasn't enough of snake oil salesman promoting their business as "AI-powered" already. And what AI does even mean in current context? A bag of machine learning algorithms? I always likened AI to be more of general AI rather than how it's nowadays labelled.

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Post by victor106 »

Ramiuz wrote: post #48
pasiaj wrote: post #22

Elements of AI was created as a collaboration by University of Helsinki, the Finnish government and Reactor Innovations, a software consultancy. It was well received by the Finnish general populace. The Finnish government currently acts as the EU presidency, and decided to open access to all Europeans.

The work done by them has been incredible. Their course on OO with Java was a lifesaver as a student, helping me with a lot of concepts and filling the gaps, to start working as a SE. While I didn't have the time to complete it, their fullstack course seems also very good, has someone completed it that can share their experience?.

Do you have links that you can share to these courses?

Re: Elements of AI course to be made available in all EU languages

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Post by pelliphant »

jacknews wrote: post #20
jacquesm wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As opposed to 'just English' which is more or less the norm in start-up land?

startup land is silicon valley, usually targeting the US. An AI course targeted at Europe should at least include German, French, Spanish, etc.

Why? Sure, it would be nice with more languages, but if someone from germany/france/spain want's to learn study AI, isn't it probable that they are used to reading english anyway?
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