Imagine soaring a couple hundred feet above the ground in your own personal aircraft. They’re called “short-hop adventure crafts” and they’re taking off. (Sorry, had to.) The electric BlackFly requires only seven days of training before you (not me) can take to the skies. Watch it in action!
Coursera vs. Udemy: Which platform offers the best online learning experience?
Learning through online courses has grown in popularity over the years. It’s never been easier to customize your education and focus on skills you care about. In this multi-billion dollar business, websites rope in course creators to build a system of user-generated educational resources. But which one is best?
Coursera and Udemy are two of the biggest course sites. Here’s a quick comparison to know which of these sites is best for you.
Which platform has better courses?
It does come down to that, doesn’t it? This round goes to Coursera. While Udemy has some excellent course creators, Coursera offers certification programs that can help you get a job or start a career path.
Udemy has more courses, but Coursera focuses on quality over quantity. However, this means they fail in a few other categories we need to discuss.
Which platform has better pricing?
This undoubtedly comes down to Udemy. The site offers courses with pricing starting at $14.99. In recent years, however, the company insisted that its creators charge more for their classes, raising the median course price.
Even so, Coursera is much more expensive on average. Its certification program costs $49 monthly and often requires at least six months of participation. The site’s accredited online university programs can also range in tens of thousands of dollars (depending on your location).
This is still better than the average tuition price for attending in-person college classes, but that doesn’t make it any easier to pay $32,000+ for a degree online. Udemy is much more accessible, even though it doesn’t offer accreditation.
If you connected your bank account to Venmo, Robinhood or another financial app, you may be entitled to a settlement
App users are often blissfully unaware of just how much technology is involved in making an application work correctly. For every function, there are heaps of coding. Want to know more? This hands-on training can help.
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Need to brush up? Microsoft offers free online training for its Office programs, including video tutorials, interactive guides and practice exercises.
New York Times vs. AI
Should OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, be held accountable for training its AI on others’ works? I’ll break down the landmark lawsuit.
Atlas doesn’t need lunch breaks: Boston Dynamics just dropped a new video of its humanoid robot Atlas. The bot does factory work, like moving engine covers between supplier containers and a mobile sequencing dolly — complete with full-motion bending and turning. The big deal is that no human needs to tell the bot what to do after training.
$60M per year
That’s how much Reddit is getting paid to hand over user content for AI training. The “who” is a mystery for now, but just know that you agree to this in the terms and conditions if you use Reddit.
Need a job? Microsoft offering free digital skills training
COVID-19 has changed many things about the world we live in, but its effect on the economy is one of the most obvious. Since the start of the pandemic, millions of jobs have either vanished or moved online entirely. And for many workers, this adjustment only adds to the stresses of maintaining stability.
AI chatbots are politically biased: Researchers ran 11 standard political questionnaires through 24 different AI bots, including ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini. Most leaned left-of-center because they were fed more left-leaning training data, not right-leaning. Developers have a huge influence on what their models “think.”
Gotta wing it: Imagine soaring a couple of hundred feet above the ground in your own personal aircraft. They’re called “short-hop adventure crafts” and they’re taking off. (Sorry, had to.) The electric BlackFly requires only seven days of training before you (not me) can take to the skies. Watch it in action.
Remember “Rickrolling”? It’s the prank when you trick someone into watching the video for Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up.” An AI CEO says his bot just did it to a customer. No kidding, the person asked for a video training session. When the AI couldn’t find one, it sent a link to the 1987 hit. Yes, they patched the glitch.
Photoshop skills without all the training: It’s here with Adobe’s Magic Fixup. Imagine deciding you want something in an image in a different place or a little bigger. You can cut and paste it, then AI does all the work to make it look natural. Amazing stuff.
Mental health help: The first FDA-approved app to treat depression is now available. Rejoyn offers a six-week program with brain-training exercises and short skill-based therapy lessons. You’ll need a prescription, which means you must be diagnosed with major depressive disorder, currently on antidepressants and at least 22 years old. More info here.
Get rich quick … never: The FTC is handing out $12 million in refunds to over 25,000 people who fell for a house-flipping scheme. The Zurixx scam lured victims with promises of quick cash and endorsements from HGTV stars like Tarek El Moussa, Hilary Farr and Christina Hall. Basic three-day training courses started at $1,997 and ranged all the way up to $41,297. Oof.
All talk, no show tunes: Three major labels are suing AI music company Suno for training its model on copyrighted songs. Suno’s defense? “Yep, we did it.” Suno says it’s “fair use” to use protected songs in their back-end tech to create something completely new. Now, that’s an interesting defense.
📚 Parenting win: Swap videos for audiobooks. Audiobooks encourage kids to visualize stories, in effect training their voluntary imagination, improving their problem-solving skills, boosting their attention spans and listening skills, and enhancing their vocabularies.
Mute yourself when you’re on hold waiting for customer service help. You know that message about how what you say may be recorded for training purposes? They don’t just mean when you have a rep on the phone.
🚀 Out of this world: At 90 years old, Ed Dwight, the first Black astronaut candidate, finally made it to space. He blasted off on May 19 in Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket. Dwight made headlines during his flight training in the ‘60s, but he was never selected by NASA. Now, 60 years later, he’s back in the history books as the oldest person to leave the earth’s atmosphere. I love this!