{"id":484,"date":"2019-12-19T10:09:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T15:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/?p=484"},"modified":"2019-12-19T10:09:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T15:09:06","slug":"finland-launches-a-free-artificial-intelligence-crash-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/artificial-intelligence\/finland-launches-a-free-artificial-intelligence-crash-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Finland Launches a Free Artificial Intelligence Crash Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"LVHBrn\">Last year, Finland launched a free online crash course in artificial intelligence with the aim of educating its citizens about the new technology. Now, as a Christmas present to the world, the European nation is making the six week program\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elementsofai.com\/\">available for anyone to take<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h8vCnF\">Strictly speaking, it\u2019s a present for the European Union. Finland is relinquishing the EU\u2019s rotating presidency at the end of the year, and decided to translate its course into every EU language as a gift to citizens. But there aren\u2019t any geographical restrictions as to\u00a0<em>who<\/em>\u00a0can take the course, so really it\u2019s to the world\u2019s benefit.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ZBVqLM\">The course certainly proved itself in Finland, with more than 1 percent of the Nordic nation\u2019s 5.5 million citizens signing up. The course, named Elements of AI, is currently available in English, Swedish, Estonian, Finnish, and German.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/12\/18\/21027840\/online-course-basics-of-ai-finland-free-elements?fbclid=IwAR3cJUtg5UZDUeEQS3wn3nQQkJlH1no_DUc-8fpesb0XTuNICpXo7L1wJEE\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Finland launched a free online crash course in artificial intelligence with the aim of educating its citizens about the new technology. Now, as a Christmas present to the world, the European nation is making the six week program\u00a0available for anyone to take. Strictly speaking, it\u2019s a present for the European Union. Finland is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[12,17,24],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-course","tag-free"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}