Letters from Andrew Ng

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.

OpenAI completed its transition from nonprofit to for-profit in a feat of legal engineering that took an army of lawyers, investment bankers, and two state attorneys general 18 months to negotiate.

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The approach known as LoRA streamlines fine-tuning by training a small adapter that modifies a pretrained model’s weights at inference. Researchers built a model that generates such adapters directly.

Anthropic updated its mid-size Claude Sonnet model, making it the first member of the Claude family to reach version 4.5. It also enhanced the Claude Code agentic coding tool with long-desired features.

A Swedish organization that collects royalties on behalf of songwriters and record companies has formed a technology-legal-business ecosystem designed to allow AI developers to use music legally while compensating publishers of recordings and compositions.

What do ChatGPT’s 700 million weekly active users do with it? OpenAI teamed up with a Harvard economist to find out.

There is significant unmet demand for developers who understand AI.

Large language models may have advantages over human recruiters when conducting job interviews, a study shows.

Publicly reported compensation for AI talent has skyrocketed in the wake of Meta’s recent hiring spree.

Students benefit from tutoring, but training tutors is expensive. A study shows that large language models can boost tutors’ effectiveness in real time.

A “10x engineer” — a widely accepted concept in tech — purportedly has 10 times the impact of the average engineer.

Big AI companies found creative ways to gain cutting-edge technology and talent without buying startups.

Looking for work in AI? Brush up on your language skills. Employers are hiring prompt engineers to write natural-language prompts for AI models, The Washington Post reported. They include Anthropic, Boston Children’s Hospital, and the London law firm Mischon de Reya.

A survey of data scientists reveals a field of great opportunities but also room for improvement. The 2022 “State of Data Science” report from Anaconda, maker of a popular Python distribution, surveyed 3,493 students, teachers, and employees.