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Meinrad Happacher,

Record interest in AI online course

Two young stars of the AI scene are providing the Hasso Plattner Institute's most popular free online course to date. Since 14 June, the two 25-year-olds have been familiarizing laypeople with ChatGPT, DALL-E, Midjourney and the like in an understandable way.

Making AI popular with free online courses: openHPI lecturers Johannes Hötter (left) and Christian Warmuth.

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The Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) is currently registering huge interest in the opportunities and risks of generative artificial intelligence. It reports a record of well over 10,000 registrations for its free online course on new AI systems such as ChatGPT, DALL-E and Midjourney, which was launched on Wednesday, June 14. The course "ChatGPT: What does generative AI mean for our society?" is led by two 25-year-old HPI alumni who are already working as AI experts in the business world: Start-up founder Johannes Hötter (Bonn) and SAP Signavio specialist Christian Warmuth (Berlin). With two other free courses on the openHPI learning platform, the two have already given a total of 26,000 people an easy introduction to the world of artificial intelligence and machine learning since 2020. Anyone interested can take advantage of the latest offer from the "digital enlighteners" at https://open.hpi.de/courses/kizukunft2023.

The open HPI education platform

OpenHPI is an open learning platform that is accessible to all interested parties. The Hasso Plattner Institute launched its free online courses on information technology and innovation topics on September 5, 2012. 1.2 million course registrations have now been registered on openHPI - both by IT beginners and experts in digital transformation. More than 333,000 people from 180 countries currently belong to the platform's permanent user group of these Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). It is growing daily. The institute has issued 135,000 certificates for particularly successful participants to date. The 100 or so courses offered to date are still available free of charge in archive mode. Students can also receive credit points from their university for completing openHPI courses.

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