Following an online pilot within the fall of 2020 with Maricopa County Community College District, Intel is increasing its AI for Workforce Program to incorporate 18 extra faculties in 11 states, together with California, New Mexico and Michigan. With the enlargement, greater than 800,000 college students can participate in a curriculum designed by the corporate, on the finish of which they will earn a certificates or affiliate diploma in synthetic intelligence.

The program contains programs on knowledge assortment, laptop imaginative and prescient, mannequin coaching, coding and AI ethics. In addition to designing the curriculum, Intel has offered coaching and technical recommendation to the faculty school concerned in this system. Dell can be serving to with technical and infrastructure experience.

According to Carlos Contreras, senior director of AI and digital readiness at Intel, this system consists of 4 elements. In the preliminary “Awareness” part, a trainer introduces college students to a few of the “possibilities” and “issues” round AI, with an emphasis on class dialogue. The following two elements contain loads of hands-on studying whereas college students are regularly launched to the technical abilities they should develop into proficient within the discipline. The remaining a part of this system, “Capstone,” sees college students requested to create and current initiatives that use AI to affect society.

For Intel, the corporate says working with group faculties affords an opportunity to “democratize AI technology.” Citing data from the American Association of Community Colleges, the corporate notes they entice individuals from numerous backgrounds and walks of life. But as with most packages of this sort, it’s additionally a chance for the corporate to seek out candidates in a demanding discipline. It’s no accident then Intel plans to develop this system to incorporate 50 extra faculties by 2022.