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  We look at a Microsoft Learn course that provides a comprehensive introduction to artificial intelligence using Azure and the Foundry platform. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/150-training-a-education/19179-ai-901-introduction-to-ai-in-azure.html

  The Open Data Institute has launched its European Data and AI Policy Manifesto in order to advise policymakers ahead of the rollout of the EU AI Act.  https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/18288-the-european-data-and-ai-policy-manifesto-for-a-stronger-europe.html

  A virtual conference packed with sessions on the intersection of software engineering and AI. Let's take a look at this year's conference. AI Native DevCon is the conference subdivision of the AI Native Dev organization. It is an organization that aims to foster innovation by helping developers to adopt AI effectively in their engineering work; from speeding up coding and debugging to automating repetitive tasks. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/169-robotics/18107-ai-native-devcon-2025-the-talks.html

  The recorded lectures/webinars of the Robot Learning lecture series run by Professor Jitendra Malik at the University of  California, Berkeley have been released as a YouTube playlist. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/169-robotics/17779-robots-that-learn.html

  Introducing a GitHub repository full of hot tips and instructions on how to build the perfect prompt presented in a collection of Jupiter Notebooks. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/17627-prompt-engineering-techniques-to-make-you-an-expert.html

  An updated version of the free, self-paced online course by Microsoft's Azure Cloud Advocates on Generative AI has been released. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/17507-microsofts-generative-ai-for-beginners-version-2.html

  Google offers a comprehensive set of free courses that teach you the essentials of the Machine Learning Engineer's role  using Google Cloud's technologies. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/150-training-a-education/17368-googles-machine-learning-engineer-learning-path.html

  Select AI is a new feature of the Oracle Autonomous Database that transforms your mother language to SQL. This is a big boon for non-developers in extracting value out of their data silos. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/17132-query-your-oracle-autonomous-database-with-natural-language.html

  NVIDIA has jumped on the AI bandwagon in a big way. Hardware aside, this means working on training material too. Several self- paced courses have been released and for free too!. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/17128-nvidia-releases-free-courses-on-ai.html

  It's a match made in heaven. The Azure AI extension enables the database to call into various Azure AI services like Azure OpenAI. Combined with pgvector you can go far beyond full text search. Let's get the details. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/17070-azure-ai-and-pgvector-run-generative-ai-directly-on-postgres.html

  The recorded lectures and the written material of a course on Self-Driving Cars at the University of Tübingen have been made available for free. It's a first class opportunity to learn the in and outs of how to develop the software that powers self-driving cars. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/150-training-a-education/17060-the-university-of-tbingens-self-driving-cars-course.html

  A free, self-paced online course about Generative AI is on offer from Microsoft's Azure Cloud Advocates. It's a 12-lesson curriculum targeted at complete novices to LLMs. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/16774-microsofts-generative-ai-for-beginners-.html

  At the recent SpringOne conference, the Spring team announced the Spring AI project. With it you can start integrating the OpenAI and Azure OpenAI services with your Java code to unleash the power of AI in your apps and leverage the power of LLMs from within your Spring code. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/16702-introducing-spring-ai.html

  A new published paper, "Preparing Students for the Software Industry New Demands", is ostensibly a study on how graduates can become job ready. However, it also prompts thinking about the extent to which programmer jobs are threatened by low code tools or ai-assisted tools. https://www.i-programmer.info/professional-programmer/i-programmer/16667-why-software-engineering-will-never-die-.html

  You can now do this thanks to Microsoft's Semantic Kernel SDK which integrates Large Language Models (LLMs) with conventional programming languages like C# and Python. The Java binding has recently been released too. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/16564-access-llms-from-java-code-with-semantic-kernel.html

  "LangChain: Chat with Your Data" is a brand new free and short course by Harrison Chase, CEO of Langchain himself, to learn how to use LLMs to converse with your own data. With around an hour of content, it is hosted on Andrew Ng's Deeplearning AI platform. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/16559-learn-to-chat-with-your-data-for-free.html

  The UN invited the current state of the art robots and their creators at the 2023 AI For Good Global Summit event to speak about AI and its future of becoming integrated into society. Among them were Sophia the first robot UN ambassador, Desdemona, the rock star robot, and Ai-Da, the robot artist who  had already addressed the UK's House of Lords . All these robots exhibited high sophistication in speaking and language, evidencing thinking skills as well as motor skills. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/16480-robots-address-the-united-nations.html

  The LangChain And Vector Databases in Production course is a joint effort by Activeloop, Towards AI and Intel Disruptor Initiative to equip professionals with the means to master Large Language Models (LLMs), going all the way from training to production. It's free and self paced. And leading to a certification as LangChain & Vector Databases in Production is part one of three which collectively comprise the Gen AI 360 Foundational Model Certification. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/16460-master-llms-on-data-for-free.html

  A free, self-paced and comprehensive course that will take you from beginner to expert in the topic of Natural Language Processing comes from Hugging Face, a data science platform with a community of data scientists, researchers, and ML engineers who contribute to open source projects. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/16423-the-hugging-face-nlp-course-.html

  Google has released a learning path for Generative AI. It's free and self paced and will introduce you to what Generative AI is, how it is used, and how it differs from traditional machine learning methods. Generative AI is all around us. It’s a type of AI that can map long-range dependencies and patterns in large training sets, then use what it learns to produce new content, including text, imagery, audio, and synthetic data.  https://www.i-programmer.info/news/150-training-a-education/16404-follow-googles-generative-ai-learning-path.html