California wants to equip its workforce with AI skills by partnering with Nvidia for training throughout the state. The AI chip giant is headquartered in Santa Clara and is currently i the third most valuable company in the world.
California Governor Gavin Newsom and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang DESIGNATED “first of its kind” partnership that will focus on training students in AI, creating jobs and using AI to solve real-world problems.
“Together with California, Nvidia will train 100,000 students, college faculty, developers and data scientists,” Huang DECLARINGadding that the goal was to “prepare California for tomorrow's challenges” and “unlock prosperity.”
The partnership brings AI workshops, labs, curriculum, certifications and technologies from Nvidia to community colleges. Individuals have the opportunity to improve their careers through these efforts.
The state of California benefits from a pipeline of AI talent and will explore how it can nurture early-stage AI startups through the effort.
“We are in the early stages of a new industrial revolution that will transform trillion-dollar industries around the world,” Huang said.
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang talks next to a robot. Credit: JOSH EDELSON / AFP
HE has helped reduce repetitive tasks and simplify communication, say company leaders. or recent Microsoft study found that even though employers are looking for candidates with AI skills, only 39% have offered AI training to existing employees. And most AI use in the office is covert, with 78% using AI tools at work “without direction or permission from above.”
At the same time, it's expensive to create AI: A model can cost $100 million today and tens of billions of dollars in the coming years. AI can also increase energy emissions, as seen in Google's July environmental report.
Despite AI's drawbacks, it could have a positive impact on California through the new partnership. California is the most populous state in the country, with over 39 million the residents. California's unemployment rate takes a hit 5.3% in February; since June there has been 999,897 people unemployed in the state.