AI/ML courses galore!
Last week, AI evangelist Andrew Ng announced?a new and updated machine learning specialisation course, created in collaboration with Stanford Online and DeepLearning.ai, and slated for release in June 2022.?
On the 10th anniversary of Coursera, Ng?said, ever since the company started with its ML course in 2012, around 5 million people have enrolled on the course. As per Stanford’s?AI Index Report, India (2.83 times the global average) has the highest relative AI skill penetration rate (based on the data from 2015-20), followed by the US, China and Germany. We have interviewed hundreds of?hackathons winners, and more than half of them have said Andrew Ng's course has been the turning point in both their lives & careers. Inarguably, MOOCs have fed the upskilling frenzy of Indian youth. To that end, last week saw a few announcements in the tech education space; here’s the run-down:
The Indian Statistical Institute?collaborated with Coursera?to launch a one-year?PG diploma in applied statistics. Applications for the August 2022 cohort are expected to open soon.?
Jio Institute?launched a one-year PG course in AI, data science and digital media and marketing communications. Last date to apply is?May 20, 2022.?
SAP Labs India?and IIM Bangalore?launched the AI for Managers programme?– an initiative to make AI accessible to managerial level candidates.
In related news,?Praxis?has?topped the best data science programmes in India?survey conducted by AIM. The company claimed 100 percent placement for the January (Spring) 2021 batch.?
People & Tech?
Dr Ajay Kumar Sood was?appointed?as the principal scientific advisor (PSA) to the Indian government.?
'We are in India not just for revenue but also for our partners, community and use cases,' said Rahul Tenglikar, regional director for India at Neo4j. Read the full interview?here?.?
Vipin Kumar ingh?, head of technology at Housing.com, spoke about how the company is investing in AI and ML to help its users in every step of their house buying and renting process.
Data Science Corner?
Ranjan?, a data scientist at TheMathCompany, discussed his journey to become a MachineHack Grandmaster in an up close and personal?interview?.
Kulkarni is a chief data scientist at DeepTek and has about a decade's experience in solving real-world problems using AI. Check out his adventures in the world of data science?here.?
Startups, Apps & Tools?
Build, deploy, maintain, and monitor machine learning models and features in a single platform.?
JetBrains?recently released a new version of IDE called?PyCharm 2022.1?.
Alice is a transcription tool for journalists.
Check out Microsoft's DeepSpeed alternatives?here.
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AIM Research?
Check out the?best firms?in India for data scientists to work for?here?.?
Article in Focus
AIM looks into why OpenAI is stalling the public release of its flagship products like GPT-3 and DALL.E 2. Read the full article?here?.
A decade ago, the conventional wisdom was that AI would first impact physical labour, and then cognitive labour, and then maybe someday it could do creative work. It now looks like it’s going to go in the opposite order, said OpenAI’s Sam Altman.
DALL-E 2's?work has been quite impressive. It has made people wonder if it, or similar AI tools, could replace human illustrators and designers one day. Check out experts' opinions?here?.
GPT-4 is expected to release in July or August this year. However, OpenAI has kept a tight lid on the release date. But, one thing is for sure:?GPT-4 will not have?100 trillion parameters.?
Research & Papers?
In this paper, researchers from Meta AI and Sorbonne University revisit the supervised training of vision transformers (ViTs). Check out the paper?here.?
In this paper, the researchers from Duke University, University of Bari Aldo Moro, and Università di Bologna analyzed the effect of a policy recommendation on the performance of an artificial interbank market. Check out the paper?here.?
Event in Focus?
Intel, alongside MachineHack, has launched a two-month-long oneAPI Blogathon Contest from March 16 to June 15, 2022. Click?here?to register.?
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2 年While AI/ML courses galore, a couple of questions come to mind - 1) How connected is this wave to industry requirements? 2) How will educationists and industries ensure the two stay aligned over years on courses vs job requirements and not end up with the same fate as many other disciplines?
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2 年Nice insights ??