Christine Payne (left) and Andrew Ng (right) having a conversation
May 22, 2019

The Batch: Face Recognition Sparks Revolt, Deepfakes Find Their Voice, Retail Embraces AI

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.
 Synthetically generated images of cars in motion
May 15, 2019

The Batch: Explainable AI, Smaller Models, Labeled Data On Tap, Algorithms On Trial

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.
Andrew Ng's mother and daughter
May 08, 2019

The Batch: AI With Fashion Sense, Robot Farmers, Schooling Alexa, Sharper Computer Vision

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.
Younes Murri teaching class
May 01, 2019

The Batch: Invisibility Cloak For Computer Vision, Algorithmic Music Rocks, Automating Justice

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.
Boston Dynamics' robot dogs pulling a truck down a road
Apr 24, 2019

The Batch: Un-Redacting Mueller, Attack Of The Robot Dogs, AI Gaming Champs, Training Data Transparency

I spent my birthday last week thinking about how AI can be used to address one of humanity's most pressing problems: climate change.
Animation of a neural network
Apr 17, 2019

The Batch: Initializing Neural Networks Tutorial, Automatic Annotation, The Robots are Winning, Drones Go Commercial

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.

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