‘Really helpful’: the AI bootcamps aimed at addressing UK youth unemployment
by Dan Milmo Global technology editor from Technology | The Guardian on (#78BSC)
Pilot project in Preston comes with apprenticeship offer for Neets at end of three-week course
In a youth centre opposite Preston bus station, the UK government is trying to address two of the greatest challenges facing the national economy: AI and youth unemployment.
The hope is that one will solve - rather than cause - the other. In a room at the recently opened Vault, a community hub in the Lancashire city, an AI bootcamp" is under way - part of a trial in the north-west to give 16- to 24-year-olds AI training.
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