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ChatGPT's First Year: Udemy Data Highlights Unprecedented Global Demand for Generative AI Skills
More than 1,600 courses with over 2.8 million enrollments on the Udemy platform covering topics such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Midjourney and prompt engineering
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[{"type":"text","content":"More than 1,600 courses with over 2.8 million enrollments on the Udemy platform covering topics such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Midjourney and prompt engineering\nSAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 28, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Udemy (Nasdaq: UDMY), a leading online skills marketplace and learning platform, today released key insights ahead of the one-year anniversary of the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, revealing how global organizations and professionals have embraced and implemented generative artificial intelligence (AI) over the past year, providing an in-depth look into the impact of emerging technical skills in the workplace. “We believe Udemy was the first global learning platform to provide content on learning generative AI skills, with a ChatGPT course on Udemy just 11 days after its launch,” said Scott Rogers, Senior Vice President of Supply Strategy at Udemy. “We're now at scale with more than 2.8 million learners enrolled in generative AI courses on our platform. It's clear that generative AI has become a must-have for tech skills in the workplace for organizations and professionals to remain competitive and innovative in this fast-moving macro environment.” Key findings from Udemy data collected between ChatGPT’s launch on November 30, 2022, through October 31, 2023, indicate how the technology has been leveraged globally over the last year: Nearly 800 instructors created and published more than 1,000 courses related to ChatGPT on the Udemy platform, with more than 2.2 million enrollments.Udemy courses about ChatGPT have been developed in 25 languages with the most number of courses consumed in English, Portuguese, Japanese, Spanish and German.The highest number of enrollments in ChatGPT courses are from learners in India, the U.S., Japan, Mexico and the U.K. Broader data trends on professionals learning generative AI reveal: The top-ten industries where organizations are empowering their employees with generative AI skills are: Professional Services, Consulting Services, Technology, Manufacturing, Retail, Financial Services, Entertainment & Media, Education, Government and Life Sciences.The most popular generative AI courses focus on Midjourney, AI art, Python, and ChatGPT prompts. The Q2 Global Workplace Learning Index also highlighted how AI learning is expanding into other functional fields such as marketing, HR, sales and project man...