AI is coming to work. And it’s ready to automate parts of your job, from summarizing meetings and streamlining administrative tasks to writing speeches or code.
As this new technology enters the mainstream of work, professionals across roles and industries are eager to learn AI skills to advance their careers. There are 33x as many LinkedIn posts mentioning topics like generative AI and GPT than there were one year ago. And LinkedIn data shows a 1.7x (or 65%) increase in learning hours for the Top 100 AI / Generative AI (GAI) courses from 2022 to 2023.
Whether you are researching and writing using generative AI tools or building a machine learning model in Python, AI cannot work without you. Your guidance, creativity, and judgment are the superpowers that enable AI to deliver great results.
So no matter if you are an AI newcomer or in search of advanced tips, sharpen your skills by taking one of the 10 most popular AI courses.
10 Most Popular AI Courses
Here are the most popular AI courses on LinkedIn Learning this year.
How to Research and Write Using Generative AI Tools with Dave Birss
What you’ll learn: Learn how to engineer ChatGPT and other AI prompts to aid in your research and writing.
One takeaway from instructor Dave Birss: “Imagine ChatGPT is an actor, and you’re helping it determine its role and motivation. It's the people who understand how to collaborate with AI that will have a real advantage over the next few years.”
What is Generative AI? with Pinar Demirdag
What you’ll learn: Learn the basics of generative AI, including what it is, how it works, how to create your own content, different types of models, future predictions, and ethical implications.
One takeaway from instructor Pinar Demirdag: “Always remember that you are the power behind AI. If we become lazy and start relying on the machines for the production of content and assets without staying creative, we will be receiving outcomes that are devoid of the sparkle of human ingenuity.”
Generative AI for Business Leaders with Tomer Cohen
What you’ll learn: Whether you’re a senior executive or an aspiring leader, learn how generative AI works and how to use it to reinvent the future of your business.
One takeaway from Tomer Cohen, instructor and chief product officer at LinkedIn: “I’m a big believer in you can’t manage what you don’t understand. You and your team don't have to be technology experts, but deepening your collective understanding of AI will help you make more informed decisions moving forward.”
Nano Tips for Using ChatGPT for Business with Rachel Woods
What you’ll learn: Learn how to get started with ChatGPT, including prompting, performing analytic functions, automating manual processes, and mitigating common risks associated with false content, data privacy, and ownership.
One takeaway from instructor Rachel Woods: “Before you ask the AI model to do something, you need to help it understand the task. One best practice is to tell the AI what you want it to act as, such as a social media marketer, which helps it roleplay and have more context for your task.”
Machine Learning with Python: Foundations with Frederick Nwanganga
What you’ll learn: Gain step-by-step guidance on how to collect, understand, and prepare data for machine learning via the most in-demand language in use today, Python.
One takeaway from instructor Frederick Nwanganga: “The skills you acquire in these courses should serve as a stepping stone to continue learning and exploring how to solve more complex problems.”
Get Ready for Generative AI with Ashley Kennedy
What you’ll learn: Learn what generative AI is, how it’s trained, and how it works, as well as tips to create prompts that will help the AI create what you want.
One takeaway from Ashley Kennedy, managing staff instructor at LinkedIn Learning: “Generative AI will certainly change how many of us live and work, but the collective spark of our humanity is something we cannot underestimate. We need clever, creative, collaborative people to make it all work.”
Introduction to Prompt Engineering for Generative AI with Ronnie Sheer
What you’ll learn: Learn how to get the most out of AI fast – including ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Midjourney – as well as advanced topics like how to interact with language models using an API.
One takeaway from instructor Ronnie Sheer: “I encourage you to really test the limits of ChatGPT. It's a great way to explore what these models are capable of. And if you discover a really cool use case can then take it to another model and see how it differs.”
Python Data Structures and Algorithms with Robin Andrews
What you’ll learn: Learn about Python data structures (including stacks, queues, and priority queues) and the algorithms they support (like depth-first search and breadth-first search) through visual, theoretical, and hands-on programming approaches.
One takeaway from instructor Robin Andrews: “Knowledge of data structures and algorithms is required to work at many major tech companies. They understand how this knowledge can provide solutions to problems that can be several orders of magnitude more efficient and therefore more cost effective than naive solutions.”
Prompt Engineering: How to Talk to the AIs with Xavier Amatriain
What you’ll learn: Learn how to design, use, and fine-tune basic and advanced prompts that interact directly with large language models.
One takeaway from Xavier Amatriain, VP of Engineering, AI Product Strategy at LinkedIn: “While a prompt, in principle, is only made up of natural language, there's much more to it. Thinking about how to structure your prompt will lead to better results. As this field is growing and expanding daily, you should remain apprised of these changes by reading articles, watching videos, and experimenting yourself.
GPT-4: The New GPT Release and What You Need to Know, Jonathan Fernandes
What you’ll learn: Learn what’s new in the next generation of GPT, GPT-4, including why it was created, how it compares to previous versions, as well as its capabilities and limitations.
One takeaway from instructor Jonathan Fernandes: “GPT-4 is the biggest and the best of the GPT models available from OpenAI. You can use it for chat, for working with complex text, and programming code generation.”
Learn AI skills today to advance your career
These courses will help you build the durable AI skills you need to adapt to this rapidly changing era of work. By starting — and continuing — to learn how to use AI to do your job well today, you’ll also be well positioned to grow your career moving forward.
“It’s the people who understand how to collaborate with AI that will have a real advantage over the next few years,” says Dave in the #1 most popular AI course, How to Research and Write Using Generative AI Tools. “When employees fully grasp this, they will be in a strong position to both improve how they do their job today and advance their career moving forward.”
Insights provided by Jamila Smith-Dell. The Top 10 most popular AI/GAI courses list is ranked based on the number of unique learners who have taken the course during calendar year 2023. The increase in learning hours stat compares the number of hours learners have spent taking a course in 2023 YTD to the number of learning hours for the equivalent time period in 2022 for the top 100 AI/GAI courses.
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