Online Indian Tutors Are Teaching Ai Basics To Small Business Owners, Students
This article was originally published in Rest of World, which covers technology’s impact outside the West.
Every evening, Keshev Dutt spends a couple of hours in his home in northern India, teaching small business owners in Bangladesh and Nepal how to use artificial intelligence. Not for coding or building chatbots, but for something more basic: AI in Excel.
For $30 per head for a three-month program, Dutt, 28, runs classes in WhatsApp and Facebook groups, as well as on Zoom. He teaches how to automate inventory logs, generate invoices, analyse sales patterns, and build customer databases using AI-powered spreadsheet tools such as Copilot. The group sessions last 60 to 90 minutes, and are held twice a week.
“Most of my students run small shops, garment stores, tire repair units, beauty salons,” Dutt, who has a master’s degree in computer application, told Rest of World. “They tell me, ‘We don’t want to learn AI for big tech jobs; we want to use it to run our business better.’”
Since introducing his classes in March, Dutt said he has trained about 50 people. Many have signed up for additional modules.
Indian tutors have long offered classes on YouTube in math, science and technology, and have developed a reputation for affordable and accessible lessons. The demand for AI tutorials, delivered...
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