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<\/a><\/div><\/div>Coursera recently launched several Professional Certificates with the strap-line:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Get Job-Ready for an in-demand career<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The content for Professional Certificate courses has been created with industry partners and IBM is on board not only for AI but also for Data Science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are two choices when it comes to AI,\u00a0IBM Applied AI Professional Certificate<\/a>\u00a0at Beginner level and\u00a0IBM AI Engineering Professional Certificate<\/a>\u00a0at Intermediate level and both are motivated by the same claim:<\/p>\n\n\n\n AI is expected to generate over 50 million net new jobs in the next few years alone, World Economic Forum (2019)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Both of these programs are self-paced and charged on a subscription \nbasis, after a 7-day free trial, and financial aid is available to those\n who need it. According to the headline information they could take as \nlittle as two months to complete if you devote two hours per day on \naverage to them. A more realistic expectation is provided in the FAQs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Professional Certificate consists \nof 6 self-paced courses. Effort required to complete each course is 4-5 \nweeks if spending 2-4 hours per week. At this rate the entire \nspecialization can be completed in 3-6 months.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The FAQ also gives the information that you can enroll in a single course and can audit it to view the course materials for free. However, this option doesn’t seem to be available to all the courses listed below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The first three courses of the beginner level IBM Applied AI Professional Certificate also constitute the complete AI Foundations For Everyone Specialization and have no prerequisites at all. They are: <\/p> The blurb for this course claims:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chatbots are a hot topic in our \nindustry and are about to go big. New jobs requiring this specific skill\n are being added every day, consultants demand premium rates, and the \ninterest in chatbots is quickly exploding. Gartner predicts that by \n2020, 85% of customer interactions with the enterprise will be through \nautomated means (that’s chatbots and related technologies).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n If chatbots aren’t what you are interested in the remaining three \ncourses in this Professional Certificate open other doors. Indeed, the \nfirst of them is shared by the IBM Data Science Professional Certificate\n and is described as a beginner-friendly Python course will take you \nfrom zero to programming in Python in a matter of hours, while the other\n two further justify the Applied AI descriptor of this credential:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
explore\n use cases and applications of AI, understand AI concepts and terms like\n machine learning, deep learning and neural networks. You will be \nexposed to various issues and concerns surrounding AI such as ethics and\n bias, and get advice from experts about learning and starting a career \nin AI. You will also demonstrate AI in action with a mini project. <\/li>
learn\n how Watson works, become familiar with its use cases and real life \nclient examples, and be introduced to several of Watson AI services from\n IBM that enable anyone to easily apply AI and build smart apps. You \nwill also work with several Watson services to demonstrate AI in \naction. <\/li>
<\/a>leveraging\n IBM Watson’s Natural Language Processing capabilities, you’ll learn how\n to plan, implement, test, and deploy chatbots. Specifically learn how \nto visually create chatbots with Watson Assistant (formerly Watson \nConversation) and how to deploy them on your own website through a handy\n WordPress plugin.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n