The NYU AI School returned with its fourth iteration this summer, May 31 — June 4, 2023. The free week-long course was launched and generously funded by the NYU ML² Machine Learning for Language Lab and arranged by students from the CDS and NYU’s Courant Institute. It includes hands-on labs and lectures taught by renowned researchers within the fields of artificial intelligence and machine learning. ML² group, affiliated with the larger CILVR lab, is a team of NYU researchers focused on developing modern machine learning methods for natural language processing (NLP).

The course is geared towards first and second-year undergraduate students within the NYC area who’ve an interest in machine learning and artificial intelligence. Notably, the School doesn’t require previous programming experience and welcomes students from majors and backgrounds outside of computer science, data science, math, and statistics. The School also highly encourages participation from students of underrepresented groups. The featured speaker and panelist lineup this summer included CDS Associate Professor (and CDS Interim Director starting September 2023) Carlos Fernandez-Granda, CDS Deputy Director and Associate Professor Kyunghyun Cho, and CDS Visiting Professor and former Director of Undergraduate Studies Andrea Jones-Rooy.

Earlier this yr, the School released video lectures from the last iteration, on the NYU AI School YouTube channel to make the course more accessible.

The college is sponsored by Genentech, Prescient Design (a Genentech Accelerator), DeepMind, and the One Fact Foundation.

For more information concerning the NYU AI School, please visit the NYU AI School website.

By Ashley C. McDonald