How can artificial intelligence shape Miami’s workforce in tech? Colleges and universities already offer courses in AI, but Miami Dade College is taking one step further: it is the first college in the state that will offer a Bachelor’s degree in AI beginning in 2024. It’s already offering associate degrees and certificates in AI, with classes provided across its campuses. The college also has two centers devoted to AI, and the courses will prepare students for jobs such as AI analysis, machine learning specialists, and AI programmers. “We've reached that inflection point where artificial intelligence is going to go from being this generally used system to something that's used on a daily level,” said data scientist Aaron Burciaga who founded DataPrime and helped to design the programs at Miami Dade College, where he serves on the Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee. “And as we do more and more of that, it's not about having these large computers. It's about having many small computers and many small artificial intelligence systems, and to do that, we're going to need a much larger workforce.” Those jobs include what Burciaga calls “blue-collar workforce” such as data engineering, data operations, data pipelines and application development.
