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According to reports, over 50,000 jobs in data science and ML were lying vacant in 2018 because of lack of relevant talent.While the IITs have now decided to start the courses on ML, AI; it is much later than the leading foreign-based institutes which have been providing both online and offline courses in the field since around a decade now. For instance, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, provides the course on AI from 2010.
The IIT-Hyderabad introduced courses on first B.Tech in Artificial Intelligence, while IIT-Kharagpur introduced a certificate (six-month) course on the same programme. The IIT-Kharagpur director, Partha Pratim Chakrabarti, cited that every year thousands of jobs are created in the AI sector and it is growing on an annual basis of 10-15 per cent.
The new course at IIT-Kharagpur was started on March 10 with 300 students at its Kolkata-based campus and a rented premise at Bengaluru, said head, Centre for Artificial Intelligence, IIT-Kharagpur, Sudeshna Sarkar. The course will have 16 modules with a duration of 12-hours.
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