Udemy: ChatGPT Fastest-Growing Area of Interest for Learners
According to Udemy’s quarterly Global Workplace Learning Index, ChatGPT is the fastest-growing area of interest for professional learners. The interest in this artificial intelligence chatbot has grown over 4,000% quarter-over-quarter since it was released in November 2022. ChatGPT skills are the hottest topic employees are researching in the United States today, based on Udemy’s most popular courses on its business learning platform.
The report also reveals that ChatGPT was the most popular topic for learning globally, with consumption of courses related to it rising about 4,000% between Q4 2022 and Q1 2023. ChatGPT has revolutionized the way the world works, and professionals across various industries must develop a comprehensive understanding of it and other emerging AI technologies to quickly pivot in the era of rapid digital transformation.
Following ChatGPT, the tech skills topics that have seen the most new interest in Q1 are the data integration tool InfoSphere DataStage (706% growth) and the enterprise cloud solution Nutanix (590%). As for non-technical professional skills, the global audience has shown growing interest in teaching (764%), Occupational Safety and Health Administration-related topics (195%), and the risk management test PMI-RMP (146%).
The report further breaks down the data by geographical region. In Australia, professionals using Udemy are most interested in the CompTIA Network+ network connectivity certification, the AWS Data Analytics Certification, and Azure Data Factory. Professional learners in the United Kingdom have boosted the popularity of classes on the Blazor web app builder, the Bootstrap CSS framework, and SwiftUI. In Canada, learners are interested in artificial intelligence, but it comes second to training on Microsoft Power Platform. The third most quickly growing topic of interest for Canadian learners is Microsoft Dynamics.
Udemy instructor Diego Davila notes that ChatGPT’s popularity has made a major impact on Udemy’s statistics this year, as it is truly revolutionizing the way the world will work in the future. Whether you’re a business owner, engineer, marketer, content creator or learner, start by learning how AI prompt engineering tools can be leveraged in your role as well as how (and when) to get the best responses from it.
