In an innovative move, Microsoft has decided to hold artificial ielligence training courses; This training course, which will last uil the end of 2025, will be held in Poland and its target market is one million people.
This initiative is aimed at Microsoft’s investme in the “Polish Digital Valley”, which saw the opening of the software gia’s first cloud data ceer in this region in 2020; To date, Microsoft has trained more than 430,000 IT professionals, businessmen and studes in line with this program.
Courses in Polish and other languages are available in Microsoft’s AI Skills Navigator training ceer; Where an AI assista directs users to learning resources releva to their skill and knowledge level.
These courses are offered to both novice and advanced users, including developers and business leaders looking to iegrate AI capabilities io their organization. Also, in this course, people can evaluate and ideify their skill level using the tools provided by Microsoft.
Microsoft is committed to regularly updating the learning ceer with new coe to meet user needs, and has partnered with universities, NGOs, and tech activists to help expand the program’s reach.
Brad Smith, the preside of Microsoft, said in the company’s press release: “In order for people to benefit from artificial ielligence, they must acquire skills; “We are doing this to ensure that the people of Poland can use this transformative technology and use it economically.”
According to a study conducted by Iernational Data Corporation; 77% of organizations in Poland use artificial ielligence or plan to impleme it in the next 12 mohs; Meanwhile, Microsoft and LinkedIn’s annual Business Trends Index shows that 53 perce of Polish business leaders would not hire an employee without AI skills. Additionally, 55 perce of companies prefer people with less experience but with AI skills over people with experience but no AI skills.
“Currely, 61 perce of employees in Poland use AI tools at work, compared to 75 perce in other couries,” Microsoft said, citing the same study.
Microsoft’s announceme follows Poland’s growing efforts to facilitate the adoption of artificial ielligence by businesses and governme institutions.
Earlier this moh, the Polish governme announced plans to invest 1 billion zlotys (232 million euros) in the developme of artificial ielligence, including the developme of a large Polish language model. It also pledged to create an AI Fund and Council to oversee AI investmes and activities in Poland.
Last year, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman met with then-Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki to discuss, among other things, how Polish companies could coribute to the developme of AI. He said that Poland would be an ieresting location for the company’s new office in Europe.
