Excerpt from "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus, cast in a plaque
Mar 23, 2022

The Batch: AI Builds AI, Face Recognition Sees Genetic Disorders, Stock Market Simulation, Tracking AI's Global Progress

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.
Wooden ladder pointing to the sky with a hand on it
Mar 16, 2022

The Batch: AI For President, Pig Sqeal Recognition, Help For Problem Gamblers, Hypernetworks For Hyper Training

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).
Artificial-general-intelligence meme
Mar 09, 2022

The Batch: Demand For AI Skills Exceeds Supply, Robot Dogs Learn to Fetch, Investor Bots Underperform, Algorithms Shortchange Elders

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.
DeepLearning.AI group of learners with Andrew Ng
Mar 02, 2022

The Batch: Which Nation Dominates AI?, Meet Your Robot Colleagues, GANs Forecast Weather, Unmasking QAnon's Anonymous Conspiracy Theorist

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.
Doves flying over barbed wire
Feb 23, 2022

The Batch: AI For Unlimited Clean Energy, Stopping Robocalls, Reading Analog Meters, Choosing a Fine-Tuning Algorithm

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.
Datacentric AI logo
Feb 16, 2022

The Batch: AI Race Driver Beats Humans, Apple Bets On Generated Music, Robots Don't Want Your Job, SOA Versus FBP For ML

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...
Neural network with a heart icon
Feb 09, 2022

The Batch: AlphaCode Beats Human Coders, Driving a Forklift In Pajamas, Facebook's New AI Cluster, Does Better Pretraining Yield Better Fine-Tuning?

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!
Andrew Ng speaking at the A3 Business Forum in Orlando, Florida
Feb 02, 2022

The Batch: AI Chip Supplies At Risk, GPT-3 Goes to Finishing School, Fake Faces For Training Face Recognition, Roadblocks to Regulating AI

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...
Andrew Ng with a group of engineers in Medellin, Colombia
Jan 26, 2022

The Batch: Job Growth in Machine Learning, Amazon's AI-Driven Clothing Store, Transformers for Robot Vision, Hiring Algorithms Under Scrutiny

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.
Board game with books and neural networks over it
Jan 19, 2022

The Batch: Special #BeADeepLearner Issue! How to Learn, How to Get a Job, How to Keep Up, How to Break In From a Disadvantaged Background

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
Rocket taking off
Jan 12, 2022

The Batch: Recognizing Weapons, Reducing Garbage, Predicting Regime Change, Learning With Less Memory

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.
Onion inside a tangerine peel
Jan 05, 2022

The Batch: Failing AI 101, Google's Robot Workforce, AI Against High Taxes, Ethics for Automated Armies

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.
Andrew Ng writing his learning goals for 2022
Dec 29, 2021

The Batch: Hopes for 2022 from Alexei Efros, Abeba Birhane, Yoav Shoham, Chip Huyen, Matt Zeiler, Wolfram Burgard, Yale Song

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.
Sleigh made of gift boxes
Dec 22, 2021

The Batch: Top AI Stories of 2021: Transformers Take Over, Models Balloon, Multimodal AI Takes Off, Governments Crack Down

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.
Screen capture from the Data-Centric AI Workshop
Dec 15, 2021

The Batch: TikTok's Recommender Revealed, DeepMind's Not-So-Large Language Models, Neural Troll Trap, Recognizing Rotations

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.

Subscribe to The Batch

Stay updated with weekly AI News and Insights delivered to your inbox

Select a country