Indians are showing a growing interest in GenAI, reveals multiple reports. Last year, in every three minutes, someone in the country got enrolled in GenAI content on the online learning platform Coursera. Interestingly, Indians have left the US behind when it came to learning GenAI. The country has observed a year-on-year growth rate of 1,648 per cent while globally the percentage is 1,060 per cent.
With growing India’s interest in AI, Prompt engineering, Data science and analysis, Programming languages such as Python, C++, and JavaScript, Math, including statistics and algebra, Big data technologies, Machine learning, Cognitive learning and language processing, applying application programming interface (API), Frameworks and algorithms are the top courses harnessed by Indian learners.
Not only millennials, but senior and middle-level management employees in companies are also re-skilling themselves to adapt to changing job market demands and to stay relevant. The employees having managerial leadership roles are ahead with 23 per cent followed by interns (22%), senior individual contributors (21%), junior individual contributors (18%), director (10%), and executive management (3%).
Among states, India’s financial capital Maharashtra takes the lead with 19 per cent followed by Karnataka (13%), Tamil Nadu (12%), NCR (10%), and Punjab (5%).
Moreover, 72 per cent men engage more with GenAI as compared to women. The share of Indian women is just 28 per cent.