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ZDNET's key takeaways

• Google and Goodwill are offering a free intro to AI course.
• I took the 6-hour course, and it's quite good.
• If you want to come up to speed on AI, sign up here.

I think we can all agree that AI is here. It is becoming more and more embedded in our digital world. It's also becoming more and more necessary for everyone in the workforce (or who wants to be in the workforce) to have at least a passing understanding of the basics of AI, and generative AI specifically.

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