Amazon opens its internal machine learning courses to the public

The same machine learning courses used to train Amazon engineers are now available to the public.

The so-called "Machine Learning University" offers more than 30 digital courses (totaling more than 45 hours) aimed at developers, data scientists, data platform engineers and business professionals. # 39; company.

Beginning with the basics, students will gain knowledge through concrete examples, including "some fun problems we had to solve at Amazon," according to Matt Wood, general manager of In-Depth Learning and Marketing. artificial intelligence within the company.

"Fun" things such as predicting eligibility for gift wrapping, optimizing delivery routes and forecasting appointments to entertainment rewards with the help of data of the IMDb subsidiary.

"Our mission was to take advantage of the machine learning of something that was previously available only to the largest and best-funded technology companies, and put it in the hands of all the people. developers, "Wood said in a statement.

The Digital University promises to allow users to become familiar with a range of machine learning, artificial intelligence and in-depth learning services, such as Amazon SageMaker, AWS DeepLens, Amazon Rekognition, Amazon Lex, Amazon Polly and Amazon Comprehend.

Courses are now open at aws.training/machinelearning; users pay only for services used in laboratories and exams during training.

The proposed seminars include "Math for Machine Learning", "Elements of Data Science" and "Building a Dynamic Conversational Bot".

The company has also introduced the "AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty" beta test to validate the expertise – available at half price for a limited time.

"We have been using machine learning on Amazon for over 20 years," Wood said. "With thousands of engineers focused on machine learning across the company, there are very few pages detailing Amazon, products, runtime technologies, [and] stores that have not been improved through machine learning in one way or another. "

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