Social skills training targets behaviors necessary for success in social interactions. However, traditional classroom training for such skills is often insufficient to teach effective communication -- one-to-one interaction in real-world scenarios is preferred to lecture-style information delivery. This paper introduces a framework that allows instructors to collaborate with large language models to dynamically design realistic scenarios for students to communicate. Our framework uses these scenarios to enable student rehearsal, provide immediate feedback, and visualize performance for both students and instructors. Unlike traditional intelligent tutoring systems, instructors can easily co-create scenarios with a large language model without technical skills. Additionally, the system generates new scenario branches in real time when existing options do not fit the student's response.

Google announced Friday that it is releasing a course aimed at teaching one million Americans how to use artificial intelligence tools. As part of the rollout, the tech giant also announced that its charitable arm, Google.org, The new AI skills course will be available for 49 on Coursera, a for-profit online course provider. The announcement comes after Google scrapped its rules requiring suppliers and staffing firms it works with to provide good pay and benefits to their employees - along with laying off thousands of employees despite turning record profits. Google announced two new initiatives: One is a self-paced course on AI skills, the other is a grant program for AI job skills training.

Twenty million students started college this fall, and this much is certain: The vast majority of them will be taking on debt -- a lot of debt. What's less certain is whether their degrees will pay off. According to the survey Freelancing in America 2018, released Wednesday, freelancers put more value on skills training: 93 percent of freelancers with a four-year college degree say skills training was useful versus only 79 percent who say their college education was useful to the work they do now. In addition, 70 percent of full-time freelancers participated in skills training in the past six months compared to only 49 percent of full-time non-freelancers. The fifth annual survey, conducted by research firm Edelman Intelligence and co-commissioned by Upwork and Freelancers Union, polled 6,001 U.S. workers.

In February, Google announced that it was committing to training 100,000 Black women in digital skills. This announcement arrived as a PR Hail Mary amid the ever-growing industry and academic outcry over Google's firing of prominent, brilliant, respected A.I. researcher Timnit Gebru and recruiter April Christina Curley, both Black women and both exceptional contributors at the company. The backlash occurred during a year of widespread protest against the centuries-old violence of racism and racialized capitalism in the United States. This is not the first time that a prominent tech organization has attempted to "train up" Black Americans. From 1968 to 1972, at least 18 programs to provide computing skills training to Black and brown Americans were established in the United States. They were located in East Coast and California cities, with one in St. Louis, Missouri.

BENGALURU: Eight in 10 survey respondents say that live online learning programmes have been equally or more effective than physical classroom sessions, with artificial intelligence and machine learning skilling programmes seeing the highest demand, according to a survey by digital skills training provider Simplilearn . The survey was conducted to understand the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on employee training programmes and productivity post the implementation of work-from-home. The company surveyed executives and managers in the learning and development and HR functions of companies around the globe on issues related to current and future employee training plans. While responses were gathered from various global regions, the majority were gathered from representatives of companies located in India (39%) and the United States (41%). The global health crisis has disrupted work patterns worldwide, and one of the work areas most affected has been employee learning and development.

Fifty-three percent of U.S. office workers worry their current skills will be outdated in fewer than five years, according to new research. The study asked 2,000 American office workers about their skills and how they wish to improve them in an evolving technological world. And results revealed nearly nine in 10 respondents said they would feel more secure in their jobs if their employer offered them training opportunities. Conducted by OnePoll on behalf of UiPath, the survey found that 78% of respondents said they would be more productive at their jobs if they could learn new skills. Eighty-six percent of those surveyed said they wish their employer offered opportunities to acquire new skills -- while 83% would like to enhance their current skills.

Based on our interactions and the results of this study, we expect to see organizations not only adopt AI – but scale it across their enterprises, by building/developing their own AI, or putting ready-made AI applications to work. For example, according to the survey, 40% of respondents currently deploying AI said they are developing proof-of-concepts for specific AI-based or AI-assisted projects, and 40% are using pre-built AI applications, such as chatbots and virtual agents. I see the excitement building with clients every day. Consider just a couple of recent examples. Legal software developer LegalMation has leveraged IBM Watson and our natural language processing technology to help attorneys automate some of the most mundane litigation tasks, speeding, for example, the written discovery process from multiple hours to a few minutes.

Based on our interactions and the results of this study, we expect to see organizations not only adopt AI--but scale it across their enterprises, by building/developing their own AI, or putting ready-made AI applications to work. For example, according to the survey, 40% of respondents currently deploying AI said they are developing proof-of-concepts for specific AI-based or AI-assisted projects, and 40% are using pre-built AI applications, such as chatbots and virtual agents. I see the excitement building with clients every day. Consider just a couple of recent examples. Legal software developer LegalMation has leveraged IBM Watson and our natural language processing technology to help attorneys automate some of the most mundane litigation tasks, speeding, for example, the written discovery process from multiple hours to a few minutes.

Based on our interactions and the results of this study, we expect to see organizations not only adopt AI – but scale it across their enterprises, by building/developing their own AI, or putting ready-made AI applications to work. For example, according to the survey, 40% of respondents currently deploying AI said they are developing proof-of-concepts for specific AI-based or AI-assisted projects, and 40% are using pre-built AI applications, such as chatbots and virtual agents. I see the excitement building with clients every day. Consider just a couple of recent examples. Legal software developer LegalMation has leveraged IBM Watson and our natural language processing technology to help attorneys automate some of the most mundane litigation tasks, speeding, for example, the written discovery process from multiple hours to a few minutes.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and robots have slowly but steadily made their way into a variety of industries spanning fast food to the financial sectors. This expansion is projected to continue and is forecasted to replace a considerable amount of jobs. A Forrester report notes that AI can replace as many as six per cent of jobs by 2021. A PwC reports notes that many jobs across the globe will be affected by the 2030s, including 38 per cent of U.S. jobs; 35 per cent of jobs in Germany; 30 per cent of U.K. jobs, and 21 per cent of occupations in Japan. There is no doubt that AI and robots can replace frontline workers who complete routine tasks.