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Digital Skills: Artificial Intelligence

Discover the potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to transform your everyday life and reshape the way you work.

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    3 weeks
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    2 hours
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Identify the skills needed to work with artificial intelligence (AI)

From AI chatbots to smart personal assistants, AI is used in many businesses to optimise processes and improve working life.

On this three-week course, you’ll learn about the past, present, and future of artificial intelligence and generative AI and explore its potential in the workplace.

Discover the origins of artificial intelligence

You’ll examine key moments in AI history, including the emergence of Gen AI, explore its benefits and considerations, as well as investigate the ethics of responsible AI.

Using this knowledge, you’ll evaluate how AI and Gen AI developments may impact your work and discuss where the future might lead.

Explore the applications of AI in industry

Throughout the course, you’ll enhance your understanding of AI, and Gen AI in the workplace, before looking at the impact on an individual level through case studies and self-reflective tasks.

Having completed these exercises, you’ll be able to analyse how your present or prospective career may advance using AI, helping you to identify gaps in your current skill set.

Develop techniques to upskill with artificial intelligence

With an overview of the current AI landscape, you’ll take a look at the future and assess what an AI driven world might look like.

In the final week of this course, you’ll reflect on the skills you already possess, learning how these can be adapted for evolving technological roles, as well as developing strategies to help further your career in evolving industries.

By the end of this course, you’ll understand AI development and its role in advancing processes across industry. Having evaluated your skill set, you’ll be able to develop a strategic plan to upskill and adapt to the impact of AI in your role.

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Skip to 0 minutes and 3 seconds This course aims to equip you with a broad understanding of artificial intelligence, or AI– –its past, present, and future, the benefits it creates as well as how it’s reshaping various industries. You’ll also gain a greater understanding of the working relationship between humans and AI and what skills are predicted to be needed to work and interact with the technology– –as well as the new jobs that artificial intelligence has and will create. With this understanding, you will be able to hone your own skills to adapt your career to thrive within the future workplace. Technology now exists that can help people with mobility impairments, operate and control their computers with their eyes, similar to the way a mouse is controlled with a hand.

Skip to 0 minutes and 48 seconds Technology now exists that can monitor natural disasters and provide warning signals earlier and more accurately to help reduce the number of casualties or help the emergency services quickly locate victims. Technology now exists that allows people to purchase items simply by taking a picture. These are examples of artificial intelligence. Do you remember when the internet became widely used or have you read about this in history? Something similar happened around that time, hence why we now have jobs such as social media communication teams and web designers. So it is important to stress that while 75 million current jobs are displaced around the world, 133 million new jobs may emerge.

Skip to 1 minute and 33 seconds This means that almost 60 million jobs will be created, and AI is driving new opportunities today. But what does this artificial intelligence buzzword truly mean? What technologies are behind it? Why are some people so excited about it and why do some people fear it? Do you find yourself asking one of these questions? Then this course is for you.

What topics will you cover?

Week 1: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

  • What is Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI and where did they come from?
  • AI in action
  • What does this mean for me?

Week 2: Artificial Intelligence in Industry

  • Impact on industries by AI
  • Impact of AI on individuals
  • What does it mean for me?

Week 3: Adapting your Skills to Work with Artificial Intelligence

  • How has the relationship changed between AI and Humans?
  • Imagining the future

Who is this accredited by?

The CPD Certification Service
The CPD Certification Service:

The CPD Certification Service was established in 1996 and is the leading independent CPD accreditation institution operating across industry sectors to complement the CPD policies of professional and academic bodies.

When would you like to start?

Start straight away and join a global classroom of learners. If the course hasn’t started yet you’ll see the future date listed below.

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Learning on this course

On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

  • Describe the origins and advent of AI and Gen AI
  • Explain the relationship between AI and Automation
  • Reflect on the application of AI to your own context
  • Identify key shifts in the workplace influenced by AI and Gen AI
  • Assess the impact shifts that AI may have on roles and responsibilities
  • Identify how the relationship has changed between AI and humans
  • Identify future skills required to work and interact with AI and Gen AI
  • Produce an action plan to adapt your skills for the future

Who is the course for?

This technology course is for anyone with an interest in AI and Generative AI who is looking to improve their entrepreneurial skills, enter the workplace, or change careers.

Interested in growing your digital skills more widely? Discover more Digital Skills courses from Accenture.

Who developed the course?

Accenture

Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialised skills across more than 40 industries, Accenture offers Strategy and Consulting, Technology and Operations services and Accenture Song — all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centres.

What's included?

Accenture are offering everyone who joins this course a free digital upgrade, so that you can experience the full benefits of studying online for free. This means that you get:

  • Unlimited access to this course
  • Includes any articles, videos, peer reviews and quizzes
  • Tests to validate your learning
  • A PDF Certificate of Achievement to prove your success when you’re eligible
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    • Experience the power of social learning, and get inspired by an international network of learners
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    • Whenever you’re ready, mark each step as complete, you’re in control
    • Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate

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