Microsoft Partners With OpenClassrooms To Recruit and Train 1,000 AI Students

Microsoft is partnering with French online education platform OpenClassrooms to train and recruit promising students in AI and prepare them for the workplace. From a report: OpenClassrooms is one of a number of massive open online course (MOOC) platforms, offering an unlimited number of people access to courses ranging from programming and project management to product design. The company has raised north of $60 million since its inception in 2007, including a $60 million series B round last May. Through its latest partnership, OpenClassrooms will construct programs based on Microsoft's content and project-specific tasks -- these are designed to fill the types of AI roles that are in demand. Though it's reasonable to assume Microsoft is a potential suitor for future graduates, the scope of the program is broader than that -- those who complete the master's-level course will be given access to a range of employers with AI positions to fill.

Recruiting AI students

[omnichad]

The AI has escaped the lab. If you find an AI roaming about, please enroll it in one of our courses immediately.

Re:

[PolygamousRanchKid]

If you find an AI roaming about, please enroll it in one of our courses immediately.

I've been using it as roadkill.

It tastes like chicken.

Yum, yum.

Recruit and Train 1,000 AI Students

[grep -v '.*' *]

Why go thru all the bother? Just train ONE and then copy it. OH, but that would get the RIAA/MPAA upset.

2004: You wouldn't steal a car, would you?

2004+15: You wouldn't copy a student, would you?

Re:

[Aighearach]

If you have a degree in mathematics and don't already understand software algorithms, my advice, forget education and get a brain scan to find out happened more recently that caused the decline.

Graduates

[AHuxley]

People who could pass their exams on merit.
They have the skills to learn to code.

FINE PRINT: not accredited in United States

[iamhassi]

Thanks for the worthless degree, maybe you should have mentioned you’re only accredited in Europe?

**PAY** to be recruited?

[iamhassi]

Sounded like it was free, after all who pays to be a recruit? But the article says the students will receive refunds if they’re unable to find a job. If students are paying, shouldn’t they be enrolling in this class, not recruited? Because recruits do not pay, usually they’re being paid.