https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/ Weekly AI news and insights from DeepLearning.AI's The Batch. http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification python-feedgen en Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:21:32 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-335/ The Batch AI News and Insights: We just launched a course that shows people who have never coded before, in less than 30 minutes, how to describe an idea for an app and build it using AI. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-335/ Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-334/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Happy 2026! Will this be the year we finally achieve AGI? I’d like to propose a new version of the Turing Test, which I’ll call the Turing-AGI Test, to see if we’ve achieved this. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-334/ Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-333/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Another year of rapid AI advances has created more opportunities than ever for anyone — including those just entering the field — to build software. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-333/ Fri, 26 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-332/ The Batch AI News and Insights: As amazing as LLMs are, improving their knowledge today involves a more piecemeal process than is widely appreciated. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-332/ Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-331/ The Batch AI News and Insights: If you have not yet built an agentic workflow, I encourage you to try doing so, using the simple recipe I’ll share here! https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-331/ Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-330/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Separate reports by the publicity firm Edelman and Pew Research show that Americans, and more broadly large parts of Europe and the western world, do not trust AI and are not excited about it. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-330/ Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-329/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Is there an AI bubble? With the massive number of dollars going into AI infrastructure such as OpenAI’s $1.4 trillion plan and Nvidia briefly reaching a $5 trillion market cap, many have asked if speculation and hype have driven the values of... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-329/ Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-328/ The Batch AI News and Insights: I just got back from AI Dev x NYC, the AI developer conference where our community gathers for a day of coding, learning, and connecting. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-328/ Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-327/ The Batch AI News and Insights: I recently received an email titled “An 18-year-old’s dilemma: Too late to contribute to AI?” Its author, who gave me permission to share this, is preparing for college. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-327/ Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-326/ The Batch AI News and Insights: AI agents are getting better at looking at different types of data in businesses to spot patterns and create value. This is making data silos increasingly painful. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-326/ Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/introducing-deeplearning-ai-pro/ Introducing DeepLearning.AI Pro https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/introducing-deeplearning-ai-pro/ Fri, 31 Oct 2025 07:47:02 -0700 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-325/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Today I’m launching DeepLearning.AI Pro — the one membership that keeps you at the forefront of AI. Please join! https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-325/ Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-324/ The Batch AI News and Insights: In last week’s letter, I explained how effective agentic AI development needs a disciplined evals and error analysis process, and described an approach to performing evals. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-324/ Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-323/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Readers responded with both surprise and agreement last week when I wrote that the single biggest predictor of how rapidly a team makes progress building an AI agent lay in their ability to drive a disciplined process for evals... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-323/ Wed, 15 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-322/ The Batch AI News and Insights: I’m thrilled to announce my latest course: Agentic AI! This course will get you up to speed building cutting-edge agentic workflows. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-322/ Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-321/ The Batch AI News and Insights: LandingAI’s Agentic Document Extraction (ADE) turns PDF files into LLM-ready markdown text. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-321/ Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-320/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Last week, China barred its major tech companies from buying Nvidia chips. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-320/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-319/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Automated software testing is growing in importance in the era of AI-assisted coding. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-319/ Wed, 17 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-318/ The Batch AI News and Insights: This week, Coursera held its annual conference in Las Vegas. A major theme was the shift from knowledge- to skills-based education, which will help many individuals, businesses, and educational institutions. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-318/ Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-317/ The Batch AI News and Insights: There is significant unmet demand for developers who understand AI. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-317/ Wed, 03 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-316/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Parallel agents are emerging as an important new direction for scaling up AI. AI capabilities have scaled with more training data, training-time compute, and test-time compute. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-316/ Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-315/ The Batch AI News and Insights: On Saturday at the Buildathon [http://buildathon.ai] hosted by AI Fund and DeepLearning.AI, over 100 developers competed to build software products quickly using AI assisted coding. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-315/ Wed, 20 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-314/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Just as many businesses are transforming to become more capable by using AI, universities are too. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-314/ Wed, 13 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-313/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Recently Meta made headlines with unprecedented, massive compensation packages for AI model builders exceeding $100M (sometimes spread over multiple years). https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-313/ Wed, 06 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-312/ The Batch AI News and Insights: There is now a path for China to surpass the U.S. in AI. Even though the U.S. is still ahead, China has tremendous momentum with its vibrant open-weights model ecosystem and aggressive moves in semiconductor design and manufacturing. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-312/ Wed, 30 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-311/ The Batch AI News and Insights: We’re organizing a new event called Buildathon: The Rapid Engineering Competition, to be held in the San Francisco Bay Area on Saturday, August 16, 2025! https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-311/ Wed, 23 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-310/ The Batch AI News and Insights: The invention of modern writing instruments like the typewriter made writing easier, but they also led to the rise of writer’s block, where deciding what to write became the bottleneck. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-310/ Wed, 16 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-309/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Last week, the United States Congress passed President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.” I’m disappointed it didn’t include a proposed moratorium on U.S. state-level AI regulation. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-309/ Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-308/ The Batch AI News and Insights: I’d like to share a tip for getting more practice building with AI — that is, either using AI building blocks to build applications or using AI coding assistance to create powerful applications quickly. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-308/ Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-307/ The Batch AI News and Insights: On Monday, a United States District Court ruled that training LLMs on copyrighted books constitutes fair use. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-307/ Wed, 25 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-306/ The Batch AI News and Insights: One of the most effective things the U.S. or any other nation can do to ensure its competitiveness in AI is to welcome high-skilled immigration and international students who have the potential to become high-skilled. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-306/ Wed, 18 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-305/ The Batch AI News and Insights: There’s a new breed of GenAI Application Engineers who can build more-powerful applications faster than was possible before, thanks to generative AI. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-305/ Wed, 11 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-304/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Everyone can benefit by learning to code with AI! At AI Fund, the venture studio I lead, everyone — not just the engineers — can vibe code or use more sophisticated AI-assisted coding techniques. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-304/ Wed, 04 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-303/ The Batch AI News and Insights: I am alarmed by the proposed cuts to U.S. funding for basic research, analyzed here, and the impact this would have for U.S. competitiveness in AI and other areas. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-303/ Wed, 28 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-302/ The Batch AI News and Insights: In the age of AI, large corporations — not just startups — can move fast. I often speak with large companies’ C-suite and Boards about AI strategy and implementation, and would like to share some ideas that are applicable to big companies. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-302/ Wed, 21 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-301/ The Batch AI News and Insights: AI’s ability to make tasks not just cheaper, but also faster, is underrated in its importance in creating business value. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-301/ Wed, 14 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-300/ The Batch AI News and Insights: I’m delighted to announce that AI Fund has closed $190M for our new fund, in an oversubscribed round. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-300/ Wed, 07 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-299/ The Batch AI News and Insights: I hope we can empower everyone to build with AI. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-299/ Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-298/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Even though I’m a much better Python than JavaScript developer, with AI assistance, I’ve been writing a lot of JavaScript code recently. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-298/ Wed, 23 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-297/ The Batch AI News and Insights: I’ve noticed that many GenAI application projects put in automated evaluations (evals) of the system’s output probably later — and rely on humans to manually examine and judge outputs longer — than they should. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-297/ Wed, 16 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-296/ The Batch AI News and Insights: I am so sorry that the U.S. is letting down our friends and allies. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-296/ Wed, 09 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-295/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Contrary to standard prompting advice that you should give LLMs the context they need to succeed, I find it’s sometimes faster to be lazy and dash off a quick, imprecise prompt and see what happens. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-295/ Wed, 02 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-294/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Fine-tuning small language models has been gaining traction over the past half year. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-294/ Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-293/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Last Friday on Pi Day, we held AI Dev 25, a new conference for AI Developers. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-293/ Wed, 19 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-292/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Some people today are discouraging others from learning programming on the grounds AI will automate it. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-292/ Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-291/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Continuing our discussion on the Voice Stack, I’d like to explore an area that today’s voice-based systems mostly struggle with: Voice Activity Detection (VAD) and the turn-taking paradigm of communication. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-291/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-290/ The Batch AI News and Insights: The Voice Stack is improving rapidly. Systems that interact with users via speaking and listening will drive many new applications. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-290/ Wed, 26 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-289/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Last month, a drone from Skyfire AI was credited with saving a police officer’s life after a dramatic 2 a.m. traffic stop. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-289/ Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-288/ The Batch AI News and Insights: At the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris this week, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance said, “I’m not here to talk about AI safety. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-288/ Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-287/ The Batch AI News and Insights: A “10x engineer” — a widely accepted concept in tech — purportedly has 10 times the impact of the average engineer. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-287/ Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-286/ Reinforcement Learning Heats Up, White House Orders Muscular AI Policy, Computer Use Gains Momentum, Fine Control of Fine-Tuning https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-286/ Wed, 29 Jan 2025 14:48:00 -0800 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/deepseek-r1-an-affordable-rival-to-openais-o1/ DeepSeek Sharpens Its Reasoning: DeepSeek-R1, an affordable rival to OpenAI’s o1 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/deepseek-r1-an-affordable-rival-to-openais-o1/ Wed, 22 Jan 2025 07:18:00 -0800 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-285/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Greetings from Davos, Switzerland! Many business and government leaders are gathered here again for the annual World Economic Forum to discuss tech, climate, geopolitics, and economic growth. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-285/ Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-284/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Writing software, especially prototypes, is becoming cheaper. This will lead to increased demand for people who can decide what to build. AI Product Management has a bright future! https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-284/ Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-283/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Using AI-assisted coding to build software prototypes is an important way to quickly explore many ideas and invent new things. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-283/ Wed, 08 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-282/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Despite having worked on AI since I was a teenager, I’m now more excited than ever about what we can do with it, especially in building AI applications. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-282/ Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-281/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Is AI progressing rapidly? Yes! But while the progress of underlying AI technology has indeed sped up over the past 2 years, the fastest acceleration is in applications. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-281/ Wed, 25 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-280/ The Batch AI News and Insights: I’m thrilled that former students and postdocs of mine won both of this year’s NeurIPS Test of Time Paper Awards. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-280/ Wed, 18 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-279/ The Batch AI News and Insights: AI Product Management is evolving rapidly. The growth of generative AI and AI-based developer tools has created numerous opportunities to build AI applications. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-279/ Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-278/ The Batch AI News and Insights: AI Agents Spend Real Money, Breaking Jailbreaks, Mistral Goes Big and Multimodal, AI’s Growing E-Waste Problem. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-278/ Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-277/ The Batch AI News and Insights: DeepSeek Takes On OpenAI, Robots Fold Laundry, Amazon and Anthropic Expand Partnership, More Efficient Object Detection. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-277/ Wed, 27 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-276/ The Batch AI News and Insights: A small number of people are posting text online that’s intended for direct consumption not by humans, but by LLMs (large language models). https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-276/ Wed, 20 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-275/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Large language models (LLMs) are typically optimized to answer peoples’ questions. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-275/ Wed, 13 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-274/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Trump and the Republican party chalked up huge wins this week. Did manipulation of social media by generative AI play any role in this election? https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-274/ Wed, 06 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-273/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Welcome to our special Halloween issue of The Batch, in which we probe fears, anomalies, and shadows of AI. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-273/ Wed, 30 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-272/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Startups live or die by their ability to execute at speed. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-272/ Wed, 23 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-271/ The Batch AI News and Insights: It’s high time to take geoengineering more seriously as a potential tool to mitigate climate change. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-271/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-270/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Congratulations to Geoff Hinton and John Hopfield for winning the 2024 Physics Nobel Prize! https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-270/ Wed, 09 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-269/ The Batch AI News and Insights: We won! California’s anti-innovation bill SB 1047 was vetoed by Governor Newsom over the weekend. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-269/ Wed, 02 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-268/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Last week I spoke at Coursera Connect, the company’s annual conference in Las Vegas, where a major topic was AI and education. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-268/ Wed, 25 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-267/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Years ago, when I was working at a large tech company, I was responsible for the data warehouse. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-267/ Wed, 18 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-266/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Over the weekend, my two kids colluded in a hilariously bad attempt to mislead me to look in the wrong place during a game of hide-and-seek. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-266/ Wed, 11 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-265/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Recently I visited South Korea, where I spoke at length about AI with President Yoon Suk Yeol. Based on what I saw there in government, business, and academia, the nation is well positioned to become a strong AI hub. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-265/ Wed, 04 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-264/ The Batch AI News and Insights: After a recent price reduction by OpenAI, GPT-4o tokens now cost $4 per million tokens (using a blended rate that assumes 80% input and 20% output tokens). https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-264/ Wed, 28 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-263/ The Batch AI News and Insights: I’m encouraged at the progress of the U.S. government at moving to stem harmful AI applications. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-263/ Wed, 21 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-262/ The Batch AI News and Insights | When entrepreneurs build a startup, it is often their speed and momentum that gives them a shot at competing with the tech behemoths. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-262/ Wed, 14 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-261/ The Batch AI News & Insights: I’m delighted to announce AI Python for Beginners, a sequence of free short courses that teach anyone to code, regardless of background. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-261/ Wed, 07 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-260/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Last week, I wrote about why working on a concrete startup or project idea — meaning a specific product envisioned in enough detail that we can build it for a specific target user — lets you go faster. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-260/ Wed, 31 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-259/ The Batch AI News and Insights: AI’s usefulness in a wide variety of applications creates many opportunities for entrepreneurship. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-259/ Wed, 24 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-258/ The Batch AI News and Insights: “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others,” said Winston Churchill. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-258/ Wed, 17 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-257/ The Batch AI News and Insights: I continue to be alarmed at the progress of proposed California regulation SB 1047 and the attack it represents on open source and more broadly on AI innovation. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-257/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-256/ The Batch AI News and Insights: As we reach the milestone of the 256th issue of The Batch, I’m reflecting on how AI has changed over the years and how society continues to change with it. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-256/ Wed, 03 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-255/ The Batch AI News and Insights: On Monday, a number of large music labels sued AI music makers Suno and Udio for copyright infringement. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-255/ Wed, 26 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-254/ The Batch AI News and Insights: On Father’s Day last weekend, I sat with my daughter to help her practice solving arithmetic problems. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-254/ Wed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-253/ The Batch AI News and Insights: One reason for machine learning’s success is that our field welcomes a wide range of work. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-253/ Wed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-252/ The Batch AI News and Insights: The effort to protect innovation and open source continues. I believe we’re all better off if anyone can carry out basic AI research and share their innovations. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-252/ Wed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-251/ The Batch AI News and Insights: A barrier to faster progress in generative AI is evaluations (evals), particularly of custom AI applications that generate free-form text. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-251/ Wed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-250/ The Batch AI News and Insights: A good way to get started in AI is to start with coursework, which gives a systematic way to gain knowledge, and then to work on projects. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-250/ Wed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-249/ The Batch AI News and Insights: In the last couple of days, Google announced a doubling of Gemini Pro 1.5's input context window from 1 million to 2 million tokens, and OpenAI released GPT-4o... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-249/ Wed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-248/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Last week, I spoke about AI and regulation at the U.S. Capitol at an event that was attended by legislative and business leaders. I’m encouraged by the progress the open source community has made fending off regulations that would have stifled innovation. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-248/ Wed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-247/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Inexpensive token generation and agentic workflows for large language models (LLMs) open up intriguing new possibilities for training LLMs on synthetic data. Pretraining... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-247/ Wed, 01 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-246/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Much has been said about many companies’ desire for more compute (as well as data) to train larger foundation models. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-246/ Wed, 24 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-245/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Multi-agent collaboration is the last of the four key AI agentic design patterns that I’ve described in recent letters. Given a complex task like writing software, a multi-agent approach would break... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-245/ Wed, 17 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-244/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Planning is a key agentic AI design pattern in which we use a large language model (LLM) to autonomously decide on what sequence of steps to execute to accomplish a larger task. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-244/ Wed, 10 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-243/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Tool use, in which an LLM is given functions it can request to call for gathering information, taking action, or manipulating data, is a key design pattern of AI agentic workflows. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-243/ Wed, 03 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-242/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Last week, I described four design patterns for AI agentic workflows that I believe will drive significant progress this year... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-242/ Wed, 27 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-241/ The Batch AI News and Insights: I think AI agent workflows will drive massive AI progress this year — perhaps even more than the next generation of foundation models. This is an important trend, and I urge everyone who works in AI to pay attention to it. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-241/ Wed, 20 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-240/ The Batch AI News and Insights: I’ve noticed a trend in how generative AI applications are built that might affect both big companies and developers: The gravity of data is decreasing. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-240/ Wed, 13 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-239/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Progress on LLM-based agents that can autonomously plan out and execute sequences of actions has been rapid, and I continue to see month-over-month improvements. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-239/ Wed, 06 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-238/ The Batch AI News and Insights: I think the complexity of Python package management holds down AI application development more than is widely appreciated. AI faces multiple bottlenecks — we need more GPUs, better algorithms, cleaner data in large quantities. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-238/ Wed, 28 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-237/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Earlier this month, my team AI Fund held its annual co-founder and CEO summit, where many of our collaborators gathered in California for two days to discuss how to build AI companies. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-237/ Wed, 21 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-236/ The Batch AI News and Insights: The rise of cloud-hosted AI software has brought much discussion about the privacy implications of using it. But I find that users, including both consumers and developers... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-236/ Wed, 14 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-235/ The Batch AI News and Insights: On the LMSYS Chatbot Arena Leaderboard, which pits chatbots against each other anonymously and prompts users to judge which one generated a better answer, Google’s Bard (Gemini Pro) https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-235/ Wed, 07 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-234/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Last year, a number of large businesses and individuals went to the media and governments and pushed the message that AI is scary, impossible to control, and might even lead to human extinction. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-234/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-233/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Last week, I attended the World Economic Forum, an annual meeting of leaders in government, business, and culture at Davos, Switzerland. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-233/ Wed, 24 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-232/ The Batch AI News and Insights: As I wrote in an earlier letter, whether AI is sentient or conscious is a philosophical question rather than a scientific one, since there is no widely agreed-upon definition and test for these terms. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-232/ Wed, 17 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-231/ The Batch AI News and Insights: It is only rarely that, after reading a research paper, I feel like giving the authors a standing ovation. But I felt that way after finishing Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) by... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-231/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-230/ The Batch AI News and Insights: Last week, the New York Times (NYT) filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging massive copyright infringements. The suit... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-230/ Wed, 03 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-229/ The Batch AI News and Insights: AI is progressing faster than ever. This is thrilling, yet rapid change can be disorienting. In such times, it’s useful to follow Jeff Bezos’ advice to think about not only what is changing but also what will stay the same. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-229/ Wed, 27 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-228/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: Last week, I attended the NeurIPS conference in New Orleans. It was fun to catch up with old friends, make new ones, and also get a wide scan of current AI research. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-228/ Wed, 20 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-227/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: Last week, I participated in the United States Senate’s Insight Forum on Artificial Intelligence to discuss “Risk, Alignment, & Guarding Against Doomsday Scenarios.” https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-227/ Wed, 13 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-226/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: Large language models, or LLMs, have transformed how we process text. Large vision models, or LVMs, are starting to change how we process images as well. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-226/ Wed, 06 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-225/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: One year since the launch of ChatGPT on November 30, 2022, it’s amazing how many large language models are available. A year ago, ChatGPT was pretty much the only game in town for consumers (using a web user interface)... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-225/ Wed, 29 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-224/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: I’m delighted that the crisis at OpenAI, which you can read about below, seems to have been resolved with an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO after his sudden firing last week. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-224/ Wed, 22 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-223/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: This week, I’m speaking at the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings in San Francisco, where leaders in business and government have convened to discuss AI and other topics. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-223/ Wed, 15 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-222/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: The past week has been an unusual split-screen time in AI. On one side, I see rapidly developing innovations from OpenAI, as well as Elon Musk's Grok and Kai-Fu Lee's open source Yi-34B large language model. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-222/ Wed, 08 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-221/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: I’ve always believed in democratizing access to the latest advances in artificial intelligence. As a step in this direction, we just launched “Generative AI for Everyone” on Coursera. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-221/ Wed, 01 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-220/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: Welcome to the Halloween special issue of The Batch, where we take a look at fears associated with AI. In that spirit, I’d like to address a fear of mine: Sensationalist claims that AI could bring about human extinction will cause serious harm. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-220/ Wed, 25 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-219/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: I wrote earlier about how my team at AI Fund saw that GPT-3 set a new direction for building language applications, two years before ChatGPT was released. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-219/ Wed, 18 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-218/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: Over the weekend, Hamas launched a surprise terrorist attack on Israel, slaughtering and kidnapping civilians. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-218/ Wed, 11 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-217/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: Andrej Karpathy, one of the Heroes of Deep Learning who currently works at OpenAI, quipped, “The hottest programming language is English.” While I appreciate the sentiment... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-217/ Wed, 04 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-216/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: As you can read below, improvements in chatbots have opened a market for bots integrated with dating apps. I’m excited about the possibilities for large language models (LLMs) in romantic relationships… https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-216/ Wed, 27 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-215/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: While AI is a general-purpose technology that’s useful for many things, it isn’t good for every task under the sun. How can we decide which concrete use cases to build? If you’re helping a business figure out where to apply AI... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-215/ Wed, 20 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-214/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: I recently spoke about “Opportunities in AI” at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. I want to share a few observations from that presentation. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-214/ Wed, 13 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-213/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: Amidst rising worry about AI harms both realistic (like job loss) and unrealistic (like human extinction), It’s critical to understand AI’s potential to do tremendous good. Our new specialization, AI for Good... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-213/ Wed, 06 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-212/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: I’d like to share a part of the origin story of large language models that isn’t widely known. A lot of early work in natural language processing (NLP) was funded by U.S. military intelligence... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-212/ Wed, 30 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-211/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: Machine learning development is an empirical process. It’s hard to know in advance the result of a hyperparameter choice, dataset, or prompt to a large language model (LLM). https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-211/ Wed, 23 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-210/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: An increasing variety of large language models (LLMs) are open source, or close to it. The proliferation of models with relatively permissive licenses gives developers more options for building applications. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-210/ Wed, 16 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-209/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: Do large language models understand the world? As a scientist and engineer, I’ve avoided asking whether an AI system “understands” anything. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-209/ Wed, 09 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-208/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: Last week, I returned home from Asia, where I spoke at Seoul National University in Korea, the National University of Singapore, and the University of Tokyo in Japan and visited many businesses. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-208/ Wed, 02 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-207/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: The White House announced voluntary commitments by seven AI companies, as you can read below. Most of the points were sufficiently vague that it seems easy for the White House and the companies to declare success without doing much that they don’t already do. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-207/ Wed, 26 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-206/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: Many laws will need to be updated to encourage beneficial AI innovations while mitigating potential harms. One example: Copyright law as it relates to generative AI is a mess! https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-206/ Wed, 19 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-205/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: Internalizing this mental framework has made me a more efficient machine learning engineer: Most of the work of building a machine learning system is debugging rather than development. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-205/ Wed, 12 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-204/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: Prompt-based development is making the machine learning development cycle much faster: Projects that used to take months now may take days. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-204/ Wed, 05 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-203/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: Suddenly it seems like everyone wants to regulate AI. The European Union is on the verge of enacting a comprehensive AI Act that’s intended to mitigate risks and protect individual rights. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-203/ Wed, 28 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-202/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: I spent Sunday through Tuesday at the CVPR computer vision conference in Vancouver, Canada, along with over 4,000 other attendees. With the easing of the pandemic, it’s fantastic that large conferences are being held in person again! https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-202/ Wed, 21 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-201/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: AI risks are in the air — from speculation that AI, decades or centuries from now, could bring about human extinction to ongoing problems like bias and fairness. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-201/ Wed, 14 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-200/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: Last week, safe.org asserted that “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.” https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-200/ Wed, 07 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-199/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: In April, DeepLearning.AI launched a short course, “ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers,” taught by OpenAI’s Isa Fulford and me. I’m thrilled to announce three more short courses, available today. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-199/ Wed, 31 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-198/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: t’s time to move beyond the stereotype that machine learning systems need a lot of data. While having more data is helpful, large pretrained models make it practical to build viable systems using a very small labeled training set... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-198/ Wed, 24 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-197/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: A few weeks ago, I wrote about my team at Landing AI’s work on visual prompting. With the speed of building machine learning applications through text prompting and visual prompting... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-197/ Wed, 17 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-196/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: There are many great applications to be built on top of large language models, and the overhead of doing so may be lower than you think. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-196/ Wed, 10 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-195/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: Last week, we released a new course, ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers, created in collaboration with OpenAI. This short, 1.5-hour course is taught by OpenAI’s Isa Fulford and me. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-195/ Wed, 03 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-194/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: My team at Landing AI just announced a new tool for quickly building computer vision models, using a technique we call Visual Prompting. It’s a lot of fun! I invite you to try it. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-194/ Wed, 26 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-193/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: The competitive landscape of large language models (LLMs) is evolving quickly. The ultimate winners are yet to be determined, and already the current dynamics are exciting. Let me share a few observations... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-193/ Wed, 19 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-192/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: An ill-advised proposal for a 6-month pause in cutting-edge AI research got far more attention than I think it deserved. To me, this is a wake-up call that the AI doomers have done a much better job than the AI optimists at framing the narrative of progress in AI. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-192/ Wed, 12 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-191/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: Last week, the tech news site The Information reported an internal controversy at Google. Engineers were concerned that Google’s Bard large language model was trained in part on output from OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which would have violated OpenAI’s terms of use. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-191/ Wed, 05 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-190/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: Generative AI is taking off, and along with it excitement and hype about the technology’s potential. I encourage you to think of it as a general-purpose technology... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-190/ Wed, 29 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-189/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: Dear friends, here’s a quiz for you. Which company said this? “It’s always been a challenge to create computers that can actually communicate with and operate at anything like the level of a human mind. . . . https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-189/ Wed, 22 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-188/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: Last week, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), Signature Bank, and Silvergate Bank suddenly collapsed. If it passed uneventfully from your point of view, good for you! https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-188/ Wed, 15 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-187/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: ChatGPT has raised fears that students will harm their learning by using it to complete assignments. Voice cloning, another generative AI technology, has fooled people into giving large sums of money to scammers, as you can read below in this issue of The Batch. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-187/ Wed, 08 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-186/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: Landing AI, a sister company of DeepLearning.AI, just released its computer vision platform, LandingLens, for everyone to start using for free. You can try it... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-186/ Wed, 01 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-185/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: As you can read below in this issue of The Batch, Microsoft’s effort to reinvent web search by adding a large language model snagged when its chatbot went off the rails. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-185/ Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-184/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: AI has an Instagram problem. Just as Instagram’s parade of perfect physiques makes many people feel they don’t measure up, AI’s parade of exciting projects makes many people feel their own projects are lacking... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-184/ Wed, 15 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-183/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: Generative AI companies are being sued over their use of data (specifically images and code) scraped from the web to train their models. Once trained, such models can generate, on demand, images in a given artist’s style or code that executes particular tasks. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-183/ Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-182/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: Recent successes with large language models have brought to the surface a long-running debate within the AI community: What kinds of information do learning algorithms need in order to gain intelligence? https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-182/ Wed, 01 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-181/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: Today DeepLearning.AI is launching the Mathematics for Machine Learning and Data Science Specialization, taught by the world-class AI educator Luis Serrano. In my courses, when it came to math, I’ve sometimes said, “Don’t worry about it.”... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-181/ Wed, 25 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-180/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: In late December, Google reportedly issued a “code red” to raise the alarm internally to the threat of disruption of its business by large language models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Do large language models (LLMs) endanger Google's search engine business? https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-180/ Wed, 18 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-179/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: Will the future of large language models limit users to cutting-edge models from a handful of companies, or will users be able to choose among powerful models from a large number of developers?... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-179/ Wed, 11 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-178/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: In last week’s issue of The Batch, Yoshua Bengio, Alon Halevy, Douwe Kiela, Been Kim, and Reza Zadeh shared their hopes for AI in 2023. I also asked people on Twitter and... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-178/ Wed, 04 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-177/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: As we enter the new year, let’s view 2023 not as a single year, but as the first of more in which we will accomplish our long-term goals. Some results take a long time to achieve... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-177/ Wed, 28 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-176/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: As the winter holiday approaches, it occurs to me that, instead of facing AI winter, we are in a boiling-hot summer of AI. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-176/ Wed, 21 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-175/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: What should be AI’s role in moderating the millions of messages posted on social media every day? The volume of messages means that automation is required. But the question of what is appropriate moderation versus inappropriate censorship lingers. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-175/ Wed, 14 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-174/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: One of the dangers of large language models (LLMs) is that they can confidently make assertions that are blatantly false. This raises worries that they will flood the world with misinformation. If they could moderate their degree of confidence appropriately... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-174/ Wed, 07 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-173/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: On Monday, the European Union fined Meta roughly $275 million for breaking its data privacy law. Even though Meta’s violation was not AI specific, the EU’s response is a reminder that we need to build AI systems that preserve user privacy — not just to avoid fines... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-173/ Wed, 30 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-172/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: Last week, Facebook’s parent company Meta released a demo of Galactica, a large language model trained on 48 million scientific articles. Two days later, amid controversy regarding the model’s potential to generate false or misleading... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-172/ Wed, 23 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-171/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: The population of Earth officially reached 8 billion this week. Hooray! It’s hard to imagine what so many people are up to. While I hope that humanity can learn how to leave only gentle footprints on the planet... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-171/ Wed, 16 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-170/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: The economic downturn of the past six months has hit many individuals and companies hard, and I’ve written about the impact of rising interest rates on AI. The effects of high inflation, the Russian war in Ukraine, and an economic... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-170/ Wed, 09 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-169/ The Batch - AI News & Insights. A new report from UN Climate Change says that the world might be on track for 2.5 °C of warming by the end of the century, a potentially catastrophic level of warming that’s far above the 1.5 °C target of the 2015 Paris Agreement. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-169/ Wed, 02 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-168/ The Batch - AI News & Insights. Each year, AI brings wondrous advances. But, as Halloween approaches and the veil lifts between the material and ghostly realms, we see that spirits take advantage of these developments at least as much as humans do. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-168/ Wed, 26 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-167/ The Batch - AI News & Insights. Is prompt engineering — the art of writing text prompts to get an AI system to generate the output you want — going to be a dominant user interface for AI? https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-167/ Wed, 19 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-166/ The Batch - AI News & Insights. For the past decade, the rise of AI has been powered by the increasing speed and decreasing cost of GPUs and other accelerator chips. How long will this continue? The past month saw several events that might affect how GPU prices evolve. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-166/ Wed, 12 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-165/ The Batch - AI News & Insights. When I wrote recently about how to build a career in AI, several readers wrote to ask specifically about AI product management: the art and science of designing compelling AI products. I’ll share lessons I’ve learned about this here and in future letters. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-165/ Wed, 05 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-164/ The Batch - AI News & Insights. In this letter, I’d like to address the serious matter of newcomers to AI sometimes experiencing imposter syndrome, where someone — regardless of their success in the field — wonders if they’re a fraud and really belong in the AI community. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-164/ Wed, 28 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-163/ The Batch - AI News & Insights. Activities such as writing code and solving math problems are often perceived as purely intellectual pursuits. But this ignores the fact that they involve the mental equivalent of muscle memory. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-163/ Wed, 21 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-162/ The Batch - AI News & Insights. Stable Diffusion, an image generation model that takes a text prompt and produces an image, was released a few weeks ago in a landmark event for AI. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-162/ Wed, 14 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-161/ The Batch - AI News & Insights. Paywalled journals that block free access to scientific research are the bane of the academic community. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-161/ Wed, 07 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-160/ I’ve devoted several recent letters to building a career in AI. In this one, I’d like to discuss some fine points of finding a job.The typical job search follows a fairly predictable path. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-160/ Wed, 31 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-159/ Last week, I wrote about switching roles, industries, or both as a framework for considering a job search. If you’re preparing to switch roles (say, taking a job as a machine learning engineer for the first time) or industries... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-159/ Wed, 24 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-158/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: Science Plagued by Machine Learning Mistakes, Deepfakes Censor Profanity, Wearable AI Helps Impaired Walking, Ensemble Models Simplified https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-158/ Wed, 17 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-157/ The Batch - AI News & Insights: AI Jobs Grow in Pharma, Self-Driving Safety Check, Holocaust Victims Identified, Protein Families Deciphered https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-157/ Wed, 10 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-156/ While working on Course 3 of the Machine Learning Specialization, which covers reinforcement learning, I was reflecting on how reinforcement learning algorithms are still quite finicky. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-156/ Wed, 03 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-155/ In this issue of The Batch: AI War Chest Grows | Drive-Thru Car Inspection Uses Computer Vision | AI computer vision grading soccer players... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-155/ Wed, 27 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-154/ Last week’s letter focused on coming up with AI project ideas, part of a series on how to build a career in the field. This letter describes how a sequence of projects might fit into your career path. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-154/ Wed, 20 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-153/ In the last two letters, I wrote about developing a career in AI and shared tips for gaining technical skills. This time, I’d like to discuss an important step in building a career: project work. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-153/ Wed, 13 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-152/ Last week, I wrote about key steps for building a career in AI: learning technical skills, doing project work, and searching for a job, all of which is supported by being part of a community. In this letter, I’d like to dive more deeply into the first https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-152/ Wed, 06 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-151/ The rapid rise of AI has led to a rapid rise in AI jobs, and many people are building exciting careers in this field. A career is a decades-long journey, and the path is not always straightforward. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-151/ Wed, 29 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-150/ Many things in life have a positive side and a negative side. For instance, a new AI system might help democratize access, and at the same time it might be more accessible to people who have internet access than those who don’t. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-150/ Wed, 22 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-149/ A Google Engineer recently announced he believes that a language model is sentient. I’m highly skeptical that any of today’s AI models are sentient. Some reporters, to their credit, also expressed skepticism. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-149/ Wed, 15 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-148/ Last week, I wrote about how rising interest rates are likely to lead investors and other finance professionals to focus on short-term returns rather than longer-term investments. Nonetheless, I believe this is still a good time to invest in long-term bets on AI. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-148/ Wed, 08 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-147/ The United States Federal Reserve Bank has signaled that it will continue to raise interest rates. As one consequence, the stock market is significantly down, particularly tech stocks, relative to the beginning of the year. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-147/ Wed, 01 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-146/ Years ago, I had to choose between a neural network and a decision tree learning algorithm. It was necessary to pick an efficient one, because we planned to apply the algorithm to a very large set of users on a limited compute budget. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-146/ Wed, 25 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-145/ One of the challenges of building an AI startup is setting customer expectations. Machine learning is a highly experiment-driven field. Until you’ve built something, it’s hard to predict how well it will work. This creates a unique https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-145/ Wed, 18 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-144/ Last week, I described trends that AI Fund, the venture studio I lead, has seen in building AI startups. I'd like to discuss another aspect of building companies that’s unique to AI businesses: the controversial topic of data moats. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-144/ Wed, 11 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-143/ AI Fund, which I lead, is a venture studio that works with entrepreneurs to build companies rapidly and increase their odds of success. We’ve evaluated a lot of AI startup ideas. There’s no one-size-fits-all template for building businesses. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-143/ Wed, 04 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-142/ It's official: Elon Musk will buy Twitter, pending approval of the transaction by the company's stockholders and the U.S. government. While some people are celebrating the deal in the name of free speech, others are worried about the platform’s future. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-142/ Wed, 27 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-141/ Last week, Elon Musk launched a surprise attempt to acquire Twitter. The $43-billion bid was motivated, he said, by his desire to protect free speech endangered by the company’s practice of promoting some tweets while burying others. To https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-141/ Wed, 20 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-140/ With the pandemic easing in the United States and Canada, I’ve been traveling more in the last two weeks. I spoke at TED 2022 in Vancouver and ScaleUp:AI in New York and attended a manufacturing conference in California. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-140/ Wed, 13 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-139/ The U.S. government punished an app vendor for building an algorithm based on ill-gotten data | Animal Animations From Video | Learning After Overfitting | Machine Learning boosts renewable fuels https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-139/ Wed, 06 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-138/ AI Fund, the venture studio and investment firm that I lead, recently held a summit where CEOs and founders of portfolio companies shared ideas on topics from fundraising to building team culture. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-138/ Wed, 30 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-137/ I’ve always thought that how you treat those who are powerless shows your true character. People rarely mistreat others who have power over them -- for example, their boss — because they might suffer adverse consequences. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-137/ Wed, 23 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-136/ Last week, I wrote about the grand challenge of artificial general intelligence. Other scientific and engineering grand challenges inspire me as well. For example, fusion energy, extended lifespans, and space colonization have massive potential to remake civilization (for good or ill). https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-136/ Wed, 16 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-135/ I’ve always thought that building artificial general intelligence — a system that can learn to perform any mental task that a typical human can — is one of the grandest challenges of our time. In fact, nearly 17 years ago, I co-organized a NeurIPS workshop on building human-level AI. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-135/ Wed, 09 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-134/ Last week, DeepLearning.AI invited a group of learners to our Palo Alto office’s courtyard. We had a good time chatting about paths into AI, career trajectories, applications people were working on, and challenges they were facing. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-134/ Wed, 02 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-133/ Russian troops have invaded Ukraine, and the terrifying prospect of a war in Europe weighs on my mind. My heart goes out to all the civilians affected, and I hope we won’t see the loss of life, liberty, or property that many people fear. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-133/ Wed, 23 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-132/ We just launched a Data-Centric AI Resource Hub to help you improve the performance of AI systems by systematically engineering the underlying data. It offers new articles by Nvidia director of machine learning research... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-132/ Wed, 16 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-131/ I tested positive for Covid on Monday and mentioned this on social media. I’m grateful to the many people who wished me well. Reading your messages made me feel better. My unscientific feeling is that they helped clear my nose a bit! https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-131/ Wed, 09 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-130/ I’m writing this in Orlando, Florida, where I just spoke at the A3 Business Forum, a group that works to advance industrial automation through AI, robotics, and other tools. This was my first large conference since the pandemic started... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-130/ Wed, 02 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-129/ If you want to build a career in AI, it’s no longer necessary to be located in one of a few tech hubs such as Silicon Valley or Beijing. Tech hubs are emerging in many parts of the world, and cities large and small offer opportunities both for local talent and companies worldwide. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-129/ Wed, 26 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-128/ How to Learn Machine Learning | How to Gain Practical Experience | How to Overcome Societal Obstacles | How to Get a Job in AI | How to Keep Up in a Changing Field https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-128/ Wed, 19 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-127/ AI continues to create numerous exciting career opportunities, and I know that many of you aim to develop a career in the field. While taking online courses in technical topics is an important step, being an AI professional requires more than technical skills. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-127/ Wed, 12 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-126/ One rule I try to live by is to not surprise my collaborators. During a project, for example, a deadline may slip, or a customer may drop out. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-126/ Wed, 05 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-125/ As we approach the end of the year, many of us consider setting goals for next year. I wrote about setting learning goals in a previous letter. In this one, I’d like to share a framework that I’ve found useful: process goals versus outcome goals. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-125/ Wed, 29 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-123/ As we approach the end of 2021, you may be winding down work and gearing up for the winter holiday. I’m looking forward to taking a break from work and hope you are too. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-123/ Wed, 22 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-122/ We just wrapped up the Data-Centric AI Workshop at the NeurIPS 2021 conference. It was packed with information about how to engineer data for AI systems. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-122/ Wed, 15 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-121/ Should we be optimistic or pessimistic about the prospects for ethical AI? I meet people who are encouraged by the progress we’ve made toward making AI more responsible and free of bias. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-121/ Wed, 08 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-120/ I’ve seen many new technologies go through a predictable process on their journey from idea to large scale adoption. First, a handful of experts apply their ideas intuitively. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-120/ Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-119-2/ I’m grateful to the AI community for the friendships it has brought me and the benefits it has brought to billions of people. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-119-2/ Wed, 24 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-118/ The physical world is full of unique details that differ from place to place, person to person, and item to item. In contrast, the world of software is built on abstractions that make for relatively uniform coding environments and user experiences. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-118/ Wed, 17 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-117/ On Monday, Landing AI (where I’m CEO) announced the close of a $57 million Series A funding round. The investment enables the company to continue building its data-centric MLOps platform for computer vision, with a focus on manufacturing visual inspection. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-117/ Wed, 10 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-116/ Dear friends, Years ago, whenever I had to do something boring or unpleasant — such as drive to work or go for a run — I used to listen to music to provide a distraction. Although I still appreciate music, as I got older I decided to cut out distractions. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-116/ Wed, 03 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-115/ On Halloween, the veil lifts between the spirit and AI worlds, allowing the two to pass through one another. The resulting paranormal — or, as AI practitioners call it, paragaussian — phenomena raise questions... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-115/ Wed, 27 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-114/ In June, I announced the first Data-centric AI Competition. The deadline for submissions was in early September, and today I’m thrilled to announce the winners! https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-114/ Wed, 20 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-113/ I’ve seen many friends transition from an academic or research role to a corporate role. The most successful ones adjusted to corporate work by shifting their mindset in a few crucial ways. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-113/ Wed, 13 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-112/ The image below shows two photos of the same gear taken under different conditions. From the point of view of a computer-vision algorithm — as well as the human eye — the imaging setup that produced the picture on the right makes https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-112/ Wed, 06 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-111/ In my experience, the most sophisticated decision makers tend to be hypothesis-driven thinkers. They may be engineers solving a technical problem, product designers fulfilling a customer need, or entrepreneurs growing a business. They https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-111/ Wed, 29 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-110/ In my experience, the most sophisticated decision makers tend to be hypothesis-driven thinkers. They may be engineers solving a technical problem, product designers fulfilling a customer need, or entrepreneurs growing a business. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-110/ Wed, 22 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-109/ I invite you to be part of Pie & AI, a series of meetups that bring together members of the global AI community for education and conversation. Pie & AI is a place where you can network with peers, learn best practices from industry leaders... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-109/ Wed, 15 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-108/ I’m thrilled to announce the NeurIPS Data-Centric AI Workshop, which will be held on December 14, 2021. You may have heard me speak about data-centric AI, in which we systematically engineer the data that feeds learning algorithms. This workshop is a chance to delve more deeply into the subject. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-108/ Wed, 08 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-107/ Building AI products and businesses requires making tough choices about what to build and how to go about it. I’ve heard of two styles... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-107/ Wed, 01 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-106/ Recently I attended an online celebration of my late grandfather’s life. He had passed away quietly in his sleep in March. Two days later, Coursera was publicly listed on the New York Stock Exchange. And two days after that, my son Neo Atlas Ng was born. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-106/ Wed, 25 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-105/ Say you’ve trained a learning algorithm and found that it works well on many examples but performs poorly on a particular subset, or slice, of the data. What can you do?... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-105/ Wed, 18 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-104/ How much math do you need to know to be a machine learning engineer? It’s always nice to know more math! But there’s so much to learn that, realistically, it’s necessary to prioritize. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-104/ Wed, 11 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-103/ Since the pandemic started, several friends and teammates have shared with me privately that they were not doing well emotionally. I’m grateful to each person who trusted me enough to tell me this. How about you — are you doing okay? https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-103/ Wed, 04 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-102/ In earlier letters, I discussed some differences between developing traditional software and AI products, including the challenges of unclear technical feasibility, complex product specification, and need for data to start development. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-102/ Wed, 28 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-101/ In a recent letter, I mentioned some challenges to building AI products. These problems are distinct from the issues that arise in building traditional software. They include unclear technical feasibility and complex product specification. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-101/ Wed, 21 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-100/ I’ve been following with excitement the recent progress in space launches. Earlier this week, Richard Branson and his Virgin Galactic team flew a rocket plane 53 miles up, earning him astronaut wings. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-100/ Wed, 14 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-99/ In a recent letter, I noted that one difference between building traditional software and AI products is the problem of complex product specification. With traditional software, product managers can specify a product in ways... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-99/ Wed, 07 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-98/ Last week, I mentioned that one difference between traditional software and AI products is the problem of unclear technical feasibility. In short, it can be hard to tell whether it’s practical to build a particular AI system. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-98/ Wed, 30 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-97/ With the rise of software engineering over several decades, many principles of how to build traditional software products and businesses are clear. But the principles of how to build AI products and businesses are still developing. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-97/ Wed, 23 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-96/ I’m thrilled to announce the first data-centric AI competition! I invite you to participate.For decades, model-centric AI competitions, in which the dataset is held fixed while you iterate on the code, have driven our field forward. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-96/ Wed, 16 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-95/ Around the world, students are graduating. If you’re one of them, or if someone close to you is graduating, congratulations!!! My family swapped pictures on WhatsApp recently and came across this one, which was taken when I graduated from Carnegie Mellon (I’m standing in the middle). https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-95/ Wed, 09 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-94/ In school, most questions have only one right answer. But elsewhere, decisions often come down to a difficult choice among imperfect options. I’d like to share with you some approaches that have helped me make such decisions. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-94/ Wed, 02 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-93/ Benchmarks have been a significant driver of research progress in machine learning. But they've driven progress in model architecture, not approaches to building datasets, which can have a large impact on performance in practical applications. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-93/ Wed, 26 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-92/ I decided last weekend not to use a learning algorithm. Sometimes, a non-machine learning method works best. Now that my daughter is a little over two years old and highly mobile, I want to make sure the baby gate that keeps her away... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-92/ Wed, 19 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-91/ So you’ve trained an accurate neural network model in a Jupyter notebook. You should celebrate! But . . . now what? Machine learning engineering in production is an emerging discipline that helps individual engineers and teams put models into the hands of users. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-91/ Wed, 12 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-90/ It can take 6 to 24 months to bring a machine learning project from concept to deployment, but a specialized development platform can make things go much fasterMy team at Landing AI has been working on a platform called LandingLens... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-90/ Wed, 05 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-89/ How much data do you need to collect for a new machine learning project? If you’re working in a domain you’re familiar with, you may have a sense based on experience or from the literature. But when you’re working on a novel application, it’s hard to tell. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-89/ Wed, 28 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-88/ Last Sunday was my birthday. That got me thinking about the days leading to this one and those that may lie ahead.As a reader of The Batch, you’re probably pretty good at math. But let me ask you a question, and please answer from your gut, without calculating. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-88/ Wed, 21 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-87/ Machine learning development is highly iterative. Rather than designing a grand system, spending months to build it, and then launching it and hoping for the best, it’s usually better to build a quick-and-dirty system, get feedback, and use that feedback to improve the system. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-87/ Wed, 14 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-86/ Each year, the public relations agency Edelman produces a report on the online public’s trust in social institutions like government, media, and business. The latest Edelman Trust Barometer contains a worrisome finding: While technology was ranked the most trusted industry in the U.S. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-86/ Wed, 07 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-85/ I have a two-year-old daughter, and am expecting my son to be born later this week. When I think about what we can do to build a brighter future for our children, the most important thing is... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-85/ Wed, 31 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-84/ Earlier today, I spoke at a DeepLearning.AI event about MLOps, a field that aims to make building and deploying machine learning models more systematic. AI system development will... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-84/ Wed, 24 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-83/ Over the past weekend, I happened to walk by a homeless encampment and went over to speak with some of the individuals there. I spoke with... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-83/ Wed, 17 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-82/ Engineers need strong technical skills to be successful. But many underestimate the importance of developing strong communication skills as well. Many AI products are so... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-82/ Wed, 10 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-81/ One of the most important skills of an AI architect is the ability to identify ideas that are worth working on. Over the years, I’ve had fun applying machine learning to manufacturing, healthcare, climate change, agriculture, ecommerce, advertising, and... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-81/ Wed, 03 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-80/ AI-enabled automation is often portrayed as a binary on-or-off: A process is either automated or not. But in practice, automation is a spectrum, and AI teams have to choose where on this spectrum to operate. It’s important to... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-80/ Wed, 24 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-79/ When a lot of data is available, machine learning is great at automating decisions. But when data is scarce, consider using the data to augment human insight, so people can make better decisions... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-79/ Wed, 17 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-78/ Over the last several decades, driven by a multitude of benchmarks, supervised learning algorithms have become really good at achieving high accuracy on test datasets. As valuable as this is... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-78/ Wed, 10 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-77/ The price of shares in video game retailer GameStop (NYSE: GME) gyrated wildly last week. Many people viewed the stock’s rapid ascent as a David-versus-Goliath story: Tech-savvy individual retail investors coordinated their trades online to push up the price... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-77/ Wed, 03 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-76/ Last week, I talked about how best practices for machine learning projects are not one-size-fits-all, and how they vary depending on whether a project uses structured or unstructured data, and whether the dataset is small or big. Another dimension that affects best practices is which phase of... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-76/ Wed, 27 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-75/ Experience gained in building a model to solve one problem doesn’t always transfer to building models for other problems. How can you tell whether or not intuitions honed in one project are likely to generalize to another? https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-75/ Wed, 20 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-74/ Last Wednesday, the U.S. Capitol building was overrun by insurrectionists at the moment when members of Congress were certifying the results of a national election. Reading accounts of how close the mob came to where those representatives had sheltered... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-74/ Wed, 13 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-73/ In my letter last week, I alluded to the way AI tends to concentrate power and wealth. This tendency worries me, and I believe it deserves more attention. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-73/ Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-72/ Happy New Year! As we enter 2021, I want to share with you three wishes I have for AI in the upcoming year. I hope we can: Narrow the gap between proofs-of-concept and production. While building good models is important... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-72/ Wed, 30 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-71/ Every year for the past decade, I flew to Singapore or Hong Kong to celebrate my mother’s birthday with her on December 22. This year, for the first time, we did it via Zoom. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-71/ Wed, 23 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-70/ When a researcher works for a company, what rights should they have to publish their work, and what rights should the company that sponsored the work have? This issue has come up many times in the AI community across many companies... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-70/ Wed, 16 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-69/ Like many people in the AI community, I am saddened by the sudden departure from Google of ethical AI researcher Timnit Gebru. Timnit is a tireless champion of diversity and fairness in AI. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-69/ Wed, 09 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-68/ The rise of AI creates opportunities for new startups that can move humanity forward. In the 1990s, the internet was embraced successfully by incumbent companies including Apple and Microsoft, but it also inspired hugely impactful... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-68/ Wed, 02 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-67/ Over the last two weeks, I described the importance of clean, consistent labels and how to use human-level performance (HLP) to trigger a review of whether labeling instructions need to be reviewed. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-67/ Wed, 25 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-66/ Last week, I wrote about the limitation of using human-level performance (HLP) as a metric to beat in machine learning applications for manufacturing and other fields. In this letter, I would like to show why beating HLP isn’t always the best way to improve performance. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-66/ Wed, 18 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-65/ Beating human-level performance (HLP) has been a goal of academic research in machine learning from speech recognition to X-ray diagnosis. When your model outperforms humans, you can argue that you’ve reached a significant milestone and publish a paper! https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-65/ Wed, 11 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-64/ As I write this letter, the vote count is underway in yesterday’s U.S. presidential election. The race has turned out to be tight. In their final forecast last night, the political analysts at fivethirtyeight.com suggested an 89 percent chance that Joe Biden would win. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-64/ Wed, 04 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-63/ Welcome to this special Halloween issue of The Batch! In AI, we use many challenging technical terms. To help you keep things straight, I would like to offer some definitions that I definitely would not use. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-63/ Wed, 28 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-62/ Today Landing AI, where I am CEO, launched LandingLens, an AI-powered platform that helps manufacturers develop computer vision solutions that can identify defective products. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-62/ Wed, 21 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-61/ My father recently celebrated a milestone: He has completed 146 online courses since 2012. His studies have spanned topics from creative writing to complexity theory. Ronald Ng is a great example of lifelong learning. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-61/ Wed, 14 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-60/ There’s a lot we don’t know about the future: When will a Covid-19 vaccine be available? Who will win the next election? Or in a business context, how many customers will we have next year? https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-60/ Wed, 07 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-59/ This special issue of The Batch celebrates the launch of our new Generative Adversarial Networks Specialization! GANs are among the most exciting technologies to emerge from deep learning. These networks learn in a very different way than typical supervised methods... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-59/ Wed, 30 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-58/ AI researchers keep coming up with impressive innovations: transformer-based language models, self-supervised learning, deep reinforcement learning, small data. All of these developments hold great promise. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-58/ Wed, 23 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-57/ I’d like to share a programming tip that I’ve used for years. A large part of programming involves googling for code snippets you need on Stack Overflow and other websites. (Shh. Don’t tell the nondevelopers. ????) https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-57/ Wed, 16 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-56/ Today we take it for granted that many people know how to read and write. Someday, I hope, it will be just as common that people know how to write code. Several hundred years ago, society didn’t view language literacy as a necessary skill. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-56/ Wed, 09 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-55/ Did you ever spend days obsessing over a technical problem? If so, I applaud you. Determined pursuit of solutions to hard problems is an important step toward building deep expertise. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-55/ Wed, 02 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-54/ I’ve been trying to teach my toddler the alphabet. Despite having some educational experience, when she mispronounces a vowel for the nth time, I can’t help but feel like I’m doing it wrong. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-54/ Wed, 26 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-53/ Last week, I asked what values the AI community stands for. Thank you to everyone who replied! The email responses in aggregate ran to 55 pages of text, and I enjoyed reading all of them. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-53/ Wed, 19 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-52/ Earlier this week, I asked a question on social media: What is the most important problem that the AI community should work on? Thousands of you responded. The most frequently mentioned themes included... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-52/ Wed, 12 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-51/ I spoke last week at the National Intergovernmental Audit Forum, a meeting attended by U.S. federal, state, and local government auditors. (Apparently some of the organizers had taken AI for Everyone.) https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-51/ Wed, 05 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-50/ Over the weekend, my family celebrated my grandfather’s 102nd birthday on Zoom. We dialed in from Hong Kong (my grandfather), the U.S. (myself), the UK, Singapore, and New Zealand. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-50/ Wed, 29 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-49/ I received a copy of Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams as a Christmas gift — back in the pre-Covid era — and finished it last weekend. This book by Matthew Walker, director of UC Berkeley’s sleep and neuroimaging lab... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-49/ Wed, 22 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-48/ Last week, I wrote about the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) policy that would have forced international students to leave the country if their university went fully online to manage the risk of Covid-19. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-48/ Wed, 15 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-47/ I am appalled by the policy, announced on Monday by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), that international students in the country on an F-1 visa must leave if their school goes fully online to cope with Covid-19. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-47/ Wed, 08 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-46/ We know that biased data leads to biased machine learning. But does the problem go beyond that? A few colleagues asked about this after a heated exchange on Twitter between Yann LeCun and Timnit Gebru (see “Image Resolution in Black and White” below). https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-46/ Wed, 01 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-45/ I was dismayed on Monday to read that the U.S. is suspending the H1-B visa program at least through the end of the year. This effort to discourage immigration can only bring distress to workers from other countries and harm to the U.S. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-45/ Wed, 24 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-44/ I’m thrilled to announce our new Natural Language Processing Specialization! Courses 1 and 2 are available on Coursera. We expect to release Courses 3 and 4 soon. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-44/ Wed, 17 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-43/ Last week, I wrote about the diversity problem in AI and why we need to fix it. I asked you to tell us about your experiences as a Black person in AI or share the names of Black colleagues you admire. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-43/ Wed, 10 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-42/ Like many of you, I’m deeply saddened by the events of the past week. I’m horrified by the senseless violence perpetrated against Black communities and appalled by the persistent racial injustice of our society. It’s long past time to right these terrible wrongs. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-42/ Wed, 03 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-41/ I’m proud to announce that we held the 100th Pie & AI last Friday. Pie & AI is our meetup series that brings together members of the AI community worldwide for education, conversation, and a slice of pie. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-41/ Wed, 27 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-40/ I recently received an email from one of you who lives far from the major AI hubs, saying, “I feel like I’m all alone.” I want to tell you all: Even if it sometimes feels like you’re facing the challenges of work and life in isolation, you are not alone! https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-40/ Wed, 20 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-39/ Inflection points in society create opportunities. The rise of online video was an inflection point that enabled scalable online education. The rise of the GPS-enabled smartphones similarly enabled Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, and many other services. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-39/ Wed, 13 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-38/ There has been a lot of excitement about the idea of using deep learning to diagnose diabetic retinopathy: That is by taking a photo of the retina and using AI to detect signs of disease. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-38/ Wed, 06 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-37/ In an earlier letter, I wrote about the challenge of robustness: A learning algorithm that performs well on test data often doesn’t work well in a practical production environment because the real world turns out to be different than the test set. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-37/ Wed, 29 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-36/ I spoke on Tuesday at Coursera’s annual conference. It was the company’s most well-attended conference yet, and the first to be held online. Higher education is in for turbulent times. With campuses shut down indefinitely... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-36/ Wed, 22 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-35/ This week’s issue of The Batch is all about medical applications of AI. Amid the current pandemic, the marriage of AI and medicine is more urgent than ever. My father is a practicing doctor, and I grew up seeing firsthand how the right... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-35/ Wed, 15 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-34/ Last week, I asked readers to tell me what they’re doing to address the Covid-19 pandemic. Many of you wrote to say you’re taking actions such as shopping for neighbors, making masks, and creating posters that promote Covid-safe practices... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-34/ Wed, 08 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-33/ In the earlier weeks of Covid-19, I didn’t want to contribute noise, so that experts in infectious disease could be heard. But now the situation has worsened. I spoke yesterday with Eric Topol, a cardiologist at Scripps Institute and author of Deep... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-33/ Wed, 01 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-32/ When I was younger, I was not a fan of working from home. Too many distractions! So I worked a lot in coffee shops. They turned out to be convenient places to talk to strangers and ask for feedback about products I was working on... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-32/ Wed, 25 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-31/ The unfolding Covid-19 crisis calls for individuals and organizations to step up and contribute to the common good. I believe that the tech community has an important role to play in slowing the progress of the virus and shortening the time... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-31/ Wed, 18 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-30/ The Covid-19 pandemic is a tragedy that demands urgent and humane response. It’s also pushing us toward new ways of gathering and sharing information — and that may be a faint silver lining that might grow brighter over time. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-30/ Wed, 11 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-29/ In addition to creating tremendous value, AI is creating tremendous concentrations of power. Our community is wrestling with what constitutes fair use of that power. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-29/ Wed, 04 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-28/ I chatted recently with MIT researcher Lex Fridman on his Artificial Intelligence podcast, where we discussed our experiences teaching deep learning. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-28/ Wed, 26 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-27/ Nearly a decade ago, I got excited by self-taught learning and unsupervised feature learning — ways to learn features from unlabeled data that afterward can be used in a supervised task. These ideas contributed only marginally to practical performance back then, but I’m pleased https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-27/ Wed, 19 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-26/ A student once asked me, “Can an AI ever love?”Since the early days of AI, people have wondered whether AI can ever be conscious or feel emotions. Even though an artificial general intelligence may be centuries away, these are important questions. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-26/ Wed, 12 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-25/ Many of us apply labels to ourselves that shape our identity. Some say, “I’m a sports fan,” and this attitude motivates behaviors such as cheering for the home team. Others identify themselves as introverts, extroverts, vegetarians, gamers, athletes, scientists, and/or engineers. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-25/ Wed, 05 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-24/ I just finished reading BJ Fogg’s new book, Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything. Fogg explains that the best way to build a new habit is to start small and succeed, rather than starting too big and giving up. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-24/ Wed, 29 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-23/ Last week brought reports that the European Union is considering a three- to five-year moratorium on face recognition in public places. Face recognition is a problematic technology with significant potential for misuse, and I celebrate the EU’s effort to... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-23/ Wed, 22 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-22/ One of the best gifts a friend gave me last year was recommending a book that I subsequently read and loved. She didn’t even have to buy it for me! The right information at the right time can have a powerful impact. It can alter the course of a project or even a career. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-22/ Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-21/ Many accomplished students and newly minted AI engineers ask me: How can I advance my career? Companies in many industries are building AI teams, but it may not be obvious how to join one of them. Different companies organize their teams differently and... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-21/ Wed, 08 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-20/ Happy New Year! Every winter holiday, I pursue a learning goal around a new topic. In between visits with family, I end up reading a lot. About a decade ago, my holiday topic was pedagogy — I still remember lugging a heavy suitcase of books through the airport — and this... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-20/ Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-19/ We here at deeplearning.ai wish you a wonderful holiday season. As you consider your New Year’s resolutions and set goals for 2020, consider not just what you want to do, but what you want to learn: What courses do you want to take this year? https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-19/ Tue, 24 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-18/ I’ve been reflecting on the NeurIPS 2019 conference, which ended on Saturday. It’s always a wonderful event, but this year I found it a bittersweet experience. Bitter because the conference has grown so much that we no longer focus on a handful of ideas. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-18/ Wed, 18 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-17/ I’ve been thinking about AI and ethics. With the techlash and an erosion of trust in technology as a positive force, it’s more important than ever that we make sure the AI community acts ethically. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-17/ Wed, 11 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-16/ Recently I wrote about major reasons why AI projects fail, such as small data, robustness, and change management. Given that some AI systems don't work, users and customers sometimes rightly wonder whether they should trust an AI system. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-16/ Wed, 04 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-15/ I’ll be spending Thanksgiving with Nova and watching her taste turkey for the first time. To those of you who celebrate Thanksgiving, I hope you spend time with loved ones, reflect on what you are thankful for, and discuss some very important topics around the dinner table... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-15/ Wed, 27 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-14/ My last two letters explored robustness and small data as common reasons why AI projects fail. In the final letter of this three-part series, I’d like to discuss change management. Change management isn’t an issue specific to AI, but given the technology’s disruptive nature... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-14/ Wed, 20 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-13/ In this series exploring why machine learning projects fail, let’s examine the challenge of “small data.” Given 1 million labeled images, many teams can build a good classifier using open source. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-13/ Wed, 13 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-12/ Building AI systems is hard. Despite all the hype, AI engineers struggle with difficult problems every day. For the next few weeks, I’ll explore some of the major challenges. Today’s topic: The challenge of building AI systems that are robust to real-world conditions. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-12/ Wed, 06 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-11/ Welcome to the Halloween edition of The Batch! I promised last week to share some common reasons for AI project failures. But first, let’s start with some of the least common reasons. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-11/ Wed, 30 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-10/ I’ve heard this conversation in multiple companies: Machine learning engineer: Look how well I did on the test set! Business owner: But your ML system doesn’t work. This sucks! Machine learning engineer: But look how well I did on the test set! https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-10/ Wed, 23 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-9/ I just replaced my two-year-old phone with a new one and figured out how to take long-exposure photos of Nova even while she’s asleep and the lights are very low. This piece of technology brought me a surprising amount of joy! https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-9/ Wed, 16 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-8/ Last week, I saw a lot of social media discussion about a paper using deep learning to generate artificial comments on news articles. I’m not sure why anyone thinks this is a good idea. At best, it adds noise to the media environment. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-8/ Wed, 09 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-7/ Thinking about the future of machine learning programming frameworks, I recently reread computer scientist Fred Brooks’ classic essay, “No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering.” Three decades after... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-7/ Wed, 02 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-6/ I read an interesting paper comparing the results of traditional passive learning (sitting in a lecture) versus active methods like the flipped classroom, where students watch videos at home and work on exercises in class. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-6/ Wed, 25 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-5/ Over the weekend, we hosted our first Pie & AI meetup in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in collaboration with the AI Malaysia group, MDEC, and ADAX. The event was part of Malaysia’s AI & Data Week 2019. Several people traveled from neighboring southeast Asian countries to attend! https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-5/ Wed, 18 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-4/ When it comes to artificial intelligence, one of the biggest mistakes large companies make is thinking tactically rather than strategically. What’s the difference? Some taxi companies thought they had the internet revolution... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-4/ Wed, 11 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-3/ I traveled to Taiwan last week, where I met many CEOs interested in AI transformation of traditional companies. I also visited Taiwan AI Labs which, similar to OpenAI, started as a nonprofit AI research institute. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-3/ Wed, 04 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-2/ We ended a busy week in Colombia hosting a Pie & AI meetup in Medellín. I met hundreds of engineers and business professionals excited to take the next step in their AI careers. I was energized by the enthusiasm the Colombia community had for collaborating... https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-2/ Wed, 28 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-1/ I am writing to you from Colombia today, and am excited to announce the opening of our office in Medellín. The office will serve as the Latin American headquarters for three of the companies in our AI ecosystem: Landing AI, deeplearning.ai, and AI Fund. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-1/ Wed, 21 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-xvi/ Shortly after Pi day (3/14), I announced our Pie & AI series of meetups. We held them in Seattle in March and London in April. We just hosted our third Pie & AI meetup to celebrate the launch of the final course in the deeplearning.ai TensorFlow Specialization. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-xvi/ Wed, 31 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-xv/ I recently met an engineer at a large travel agency who had built a fun ML project for sending guests greetings. This was one of the company’s first forays into ML. The project did not generate any revenue, and their managers discouraged them from doing more work on ML. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-xv/ Wed, 24 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-xiv/ My stash of new blank notebooks just arrived in the mail. I have a weakness for stationery. I always feel that if only I had the perfect pen and notebook, I might have better ideas. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-xiv/ Wed, 17 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-xiii/ If you wonder how often I take online courses myself, the answer is: Quite often. I have a longstanding interest in AI for healthcare. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-xiii/ Wed, 10 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-xii/ As we were working on the latest course of the deeplearning.ai TensorFlow Specialization, instructor Laurence Moroney messaged me his LSTM-generated poetry, created by learning from a database of roughly 100 Irish song lyrics. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-xii/ Wed, 03 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-xi/ AI is still compute-hungry. With supervised learning algorithms and emerging approaches to self-supervised and unsupervised learning, we are nowhere near satisfying this hunger. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-xi/ Wed, 26 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-x/ Last Friday, I attended the International Conference on Machine Learning. I spoke at the AI and Climate Change workshop on projects we’re doing to model methane emissions and on wind turbines. John Platt gave an overview of climate issues. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-x/ Wed, 19 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-ix/ I spoke last week at re:MARS, Amazon's conference focusing on machine learning, automation, robotics, and space. I heard great talks from Jeff Bezos, Kate Darling, Ken Goldberg, Marc Raibert, and others. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-ix/ Wed, 12 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-viii/ Healthcare is one of many sectors being transformed by AI. I have a personal interest in it, since my father worked on machine learning for diagnosis of liver diseases almost 40 years ago. It’s thanks partly to this work that I learned about AI from an early age. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-viii/ Wed, 05 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-vii/ In March, I announced our Pie & AI series of meetups. Since then, we've held events in Seattle and London, two growing centers of AI talent. It’s inspiring to see AI develop around the world and not just in Silicon Valley and Beijing. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-vii/ Wed, 29 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-vi/ So many people who are just starting out in machine learning are doing amazing work. With online education, open source software, and open publications, it takes less time than ever to go from 0 to 100 in ML. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-vi/ Wed, 22 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-v/ I’ve been thinking a lot about "small data." If you have an image classification problem and 1,000,000 images, then dozens of teams around the world can build a good classifier. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-v/ Wed, 15 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-iv/ A first for my three-month-old daughter Nova: an outing to the park. As my mother and I watched her staring at a tree. I realized what a novel experience it must be to see a tree close-up for the first time. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-iv/ Wed, 08 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-iii/ On Monday, I delivered a keynote via teleconference for Dubai's AI Everything conference. It was inspiring to see so many governments, businesses, and social enterprises coming together to talk about AI. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-iii/ Wed, 01 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-ii/ I spent my birthday last week thinking about how AI can be used to address one of humanity's most pressing problems: climate change. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-ii/ Wed, 24 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-i/ We're busily wrapping up the Machine Learning Yearning book. Meanwhile, we'd like to give you regular updates on important developments in AI, with an emphasis on helping you build a career or business in it. https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-i/ Wed, 17 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000