AWS announces free machine learning educational materials and training resources - SiliconANGLE

Amazon Web Services Inc. says it's trying to break down accessibility barriers around machine learning technology and make it possible for anyone who's interested to become an expert in the field. To that end, the company is launching an artificial intelligence and machine learning education and scholarship program that's specifically aimed at underrepresented and underserved students around the world. The company is also boosting access to machine learning with the launch of a free version of its Amazon SageMaker service that's used by enterprises to build, train and deploy machine learning models in production. The AWS AI & ML Scholarship, announced today during Amazon's annual re:Invent, which it styles as a "education" conference, provides educational content centered on machine learning basics. What's more interesting, though, is that students will be able to use the AWS DeepRacer service to to put their new-found machine learning skills into action.