Student interest in ChatGPT skills on Udemy increased by 4,419% since 2022: Report

Udemy’s Global Workplace Learning Index for Q1 2023 indicates that ChatGPT, fiscal services, and courses aimed astatine processing students' concern teaching skills person experienced a monolithic uptick successful involvement from the site’s reported 49 cardinal users.

This apt comes arsenic nary astonishment arsenic we’re presently experiencing what Wired precocious described arsenic a “Wet Hot AI Chatbot Summer,” coming connected the heels of OpenAI’s motorboat of ChatGPT.

According to Udemy, taxable depletion — the fig of users taking courses featuring skills circumstantial to ChatGPT — has risen 4,419%.

Screenshot of Udemy PDF report. Source: Udemy

Other apical tech skills receiving accrued involvement from students included Nutanix, Azure Machine Learning, and Amazon Elastic MapReduce — each cloud-related courses with applications successful the tract of instrumentality learning. Artificial quality (AI) creation procreation besides showed an uptick successful interest, arsenic did illustration.

The study besides summarizes the apical 3 surging skills by popularity for 15 countries. Despite the summation successful taxable consumption, ChatGPT lone managed to interruption into the apical 3 for the U.S. market, wherever it sits astatine the apical spot. Artificial quality topped the database successful Argentina and came successful 2nd successful Canada.

Also of note, manufacturing, government, and fiscal services topped the database of surging industries, with related skills seeing outsized growth.

Beyond the tech industry, the study provides figures for skills successful the “professional powerfulness skills” category. Leading the database is “teaching.” With a 764% summation successful taxable attraction successful Q1 2023, related skills were 2nd lone to ChatGPT successful consumption. 

While the study doesn’t authorities immoderate nonstop conclusions, it does see a punctuation from teacher Diego Davilla who says:

"Having a broad knowing of ChatGPT and different emerging AI technologies volition beryllium imperative to rapidly pivot successful today’s epoch of accelerated integer transformation.”

Chatbot technologies are already impacting the cryptocurrency world, with the advent of advanced trading bots susceptible of interfacing with 3rd enactment plugins built connected ChatGPT and akin platforms becoming progressively popular.

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But the Udemy study besides indicates that technologies underpinning blockchain improvement are seeing a emergence successful involvement arsenic well. Python certifications saw an uptick of 272% and FastAPI skills depletion accrued by 102% — some are wide utilized successful the improvement of blockchain tech.