To get skilled in AI, companies let employees play in Metaverse
artificial intelligence playing a pivotal role, companies are moving beyond a one-size-fits-all model of learning to ensure that employees are skilled in the emerging technology.
Internal platforms remain key to delivering learning programmes, but opportunities for practical hands-on experience on the metaverse, learning sessions with experts from Google and Microsoft, and personalised programmes from edtech firms among others are also being offered by companies to help employees get trained in AI.
With about 420,000 employees engaged in AI-related job functions, India has the second largest installed talent base in this segment globally, according to a report earlier this year by IT industry association Nasscom and the Boston Consulting Group.
As demand for AI-skilled people is growing at a fast pace, companies are investing heavily in upskilling and reskilling the existing workforce in the technology.
At IT services firm Infosys, customised upskilling programmes are offered on its learning platform, Lex.
Over the past year and a half, the Bengaluru-based company's education, training and assessment department has developed more than 50 custom programmes for generative AI, which employees can take anytime, anywhere, said chief technology officer Mohammed Rafee Tarafdar. So far, it has trained around 270,000 employees on AI technologies, he said.
Accenture has equipped more than 600,000 of its people on the fundamentals of generative AI, including how to use AI tools equitably, sustainably and without bias
