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Finland said it aims to teach 1% – or more than fifty million – of all Europeans basic skills in artificial intelligence through a free online course
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- Title
- Finland seeks to teach 50 million Europeans basics on AI
- Authors
- Tarmo Virki
- Published
- Dec 10 2019
- Word count
- 311 words
Hold on. Reuters, are you okay? 50 million is 1% of all Europeans? So, you're saying there are five billion Europeans?
The idea is awesome, by the way, but come on, this is simple math.
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Are you quoting to support or counter Thrabalen's comment?
Because, just to clarify, 1% of 512 million is ~5 million, not 50 million. Somebody slipped on their decimal point, it seems.
In support. It's a quote from the article. I was facepalming because the Reuters journalist screwed up the math and somehow their fact checkers failed to catch it too.
Do you have a link to the course?
Gosh, that would be fantastic to have as tacit knowledge across the board. I've had people approach me with "ideas for apps" that were flat-out impossible. ("Can you take a picture of a fruit and determine where it's from" was my favourite.)
It doesn't help that a lot of "AI" apps are actually powered by mass amounts of low-wage humans working for Mechanical Turk or similar. It's understandable that it's not clear to the average Joe what is and isn't possible.
Curious ... the author (apparently Finnish) posted a corrected "5-million-not-50" version of the article, but for me, at least, it keeps re-directing back to the old/wrong 50-million version.
https://www.reuters.com/article/finland-education-ai/corrected-update-1-finland-seeks-to-teach-5-million-europeans-basics-on-ai-idUSL8N28K5LC
I appreciate knowing this... I was wondering if the 50 million was wrong, or the 1%.