Elements of AI course to be made available in all EU languages

Well.. it is nice, I guess, but really dumbed down version in my opinion to actually be of practical use. Sure it&#x27;s great publicity for Reaktor and Finland and whatnot, but I&#x27;m dubious of its actual benefits. Teaching basic statistics would be much more useful than &quot;AI&quot;, but I guess it lacks the hype factor so marketing-wise it wouldn&#x27;t just be as cool.<p>It&#x27;s as if there wasn&#x27;t enough of snake oil salesman promoting their business as &quot;AI-powered&quot; already. And what AI does even mean in current context? A bag of machine learning algorithms? I always likened AI to be more of general AI rather than how it&#x27;s nowadays labelled.

Elements of AI was created as a collaboration by University of Helsinki, the Finnish government and Reactor Innovations, a software consultancy.<p>It was well received by the Finnish general populace.<p>The Finnish government currently acts as the EU presidency, and decided to open access to all Europeans.

The comments here are surprisingly negative. So many wet blankets, from people saying the offering sucks to people mistakenly complaining about it being EU-only to someone saying it empowers just white europe.<p>I wonder how many people criticizing it even planned on trying this completely-free course.<p>I think we really need to work on pulling the plug on this fetishization of contrarianism as a community.

Only in English, Swedish, Finnish, Estonian?<p>At least the language dropdown seems to be intelligable in all languages.<p>Compared to getting stuck in google maps in, say, Russia, where even the &#x27;change language&#x27; menu item is in Russian, so of course you can&#x27;t even find it to change to English unless you can read Russian, or happen to know where itt is already.

This title has been misleadingly edited, removing a crucial word.<p>In the linked article, it states that the course will be available &quot;in all official EU languages&quot;, which is indeed the case. The word &quot;official&quot; has been removed from the title, thus giving a very different indication of the actual set of languages in question.

If I&#x27;m German but want English lang which do I select? There is one selector for both

Can we change the title to soon free for all or soon available in all EU languages? As you can tell from the comments here the title is unnecessarily divisive and doesn&#x27;t seen to jive with what the website says or the Finnish governments intentions:<p>Quote from website: &quot;The Finnish Presidency of the Council of the EU has decided to invest in people’s future skills and will make the Elements of AI online course freely available in all official EU languages.&quot;

Nice to see that they&#x27;ve already removed the UK from the list of European countries.....

I just look forward to see Portuguese from Portugal being offered and not another variant.

I wonder if there is a rationale for this particularly strange selection of languages. They propose, for example, Irish (Gaelic), which is the native language of about 80.000 european citizens and is understood by about a million. Yet they do not propose Catalan, which is the native language of 4.1 million and understood by about ten million.<p>As a staunch partisan for the unity of the EU, and native Catalan speaker, I cannot but feel dismay about this continuous lack of tact from my institutions. I know this is due to ignorance more than malice, but it really looks as if the institutions are purposely shadowing our very existence.

Why is Turkish (one of the two national languages of Cyprus, one of the recognised minority languages in BiH) missing?

people would say what&#x27;s the point of this if every programmer knows English. People who say this never worked in Italy or Spain.<p>I was surprised when I worked in Milan how little English my fellow teammates spoke.

UK isn&#x27;t listed though we haven&#x27;t left the EU yet! Damn Brexit!

dropdown in footer to select country and language has white background with white text.

Country and language in a single drop-down menu, because in 2020 it&#x27;s improbable that people born outside of a country speak any other language than their native tongue. Right?

Kind of off-putting... EU only, really?<p>Also &quot;English (Ireland)&quot; heh<p>For everyone else, use a VPN, I doubt they check anything.