Education
MIT's FutureMakers programs help kids get their minds around -- and hands on -- AI
As she was looking for a camp last summer, Yabesra Ewnetu, who'd just finished eighth grade, found a reference to MIT's FutureMakers Create-a-thon. Ewnetu had heard that it's hard to detect bias in artificial intelligence (AI) because AI algorithms are so complex, but this didn't make sense to her. "I was like, well, we're the ones coding it, shouldn't we be able to see what it's doing and explain why?" She signed up for the six-week virtual FutureMakers program so she could delve into AI herself. FutureMakers is part of the MIT-wide Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education (RAISE) initiative launched earlier this year. RAISE is headquartered in the MIT Media Lab and run in collaboration with MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and MIT Open Learning.
Leveraging games and AI to maximize cultural intelligence in the workplace
U.S. corporations spend $177 billion annually on talent development. But with labor competition intensifying amid the Great Resignation, expectations are growing. Employees are now demanding more diverse opportunities and have become outspoken about what will fuel their motivations and loyalty. Items of high importance include training and progressive diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) solutions. According to PwC, 85% of women and 74% of men seek employers with diversity and inclusion strategies.
My 2-year journey into deep learning as a medical student -- Part II: Courses
Deep learning and machine learning courses that I've taken along the way in learning deep learning. It's time to introduce the courses that I've used along this way that helped me get started and grow in the field. You should also keep in mind that there are probably many more and newer courses out there as the community keeps providing interesting educational material every day. So, keep on searching too. This fact aside, I believe the following list introduces high quality courses for many fields that most of you will be okay to start with and learn lots of new things from.
Why you should think of AI as a team sport
Editor's note: This article originally appeared in Forbes. What does it mean to think of AI as a team sport? We're seeing AI projects shift from hype to impact, largely because the right roles are getting involved to provide the business context that has been missing previously. Domain expertise is key; machines don't have the depth of context that people have, and people need to know the business and data well enough to understand which actions to take based on any insights or recommendations that are surfaced. When it comes to scaling AI, many leaders think they have a people problem--specifically, not enough data scientists.
9 Best Machine Learning, AI, and Data Science Internships in 2022
Internships are a great way to get hands-on, practical experience in the fields of Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science. Those looking for internships in these, and related fields, should explore the options below. Be sure to note requirementsโsome internships have minimum lengths and only accept those pursuing higher educational degrees while others offer rolling acceptance for a range of experiences and backgrounds. All of them, however, will provide interns an opportunity to apply their theoretical and practical skills to real word, tangible scenarios. Facebook's Meta is hiring for a group of data science interns interested in learning more about using Data Science for more effective advertising, marketing, and sales applications.
Ways Artificial Intelligence Identify Students Who Need Extra Help
Using AI in education holds many benefits for both students and teachers: One can access learning resources from anywhere, at any time. Time-consuming, tedious tasks such as record keeping or grading multiple-choice tests can be completed through Artificial Intelligence automation. Technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Machine Learning, and more are now a part of our everyday lives. Teachers and learners are already benefitting from machine learning capabilities, improving access to information, and enhancing learning. This article features how Artificial intelligence identifies students who need extra help.
Council Post: Diversity Is Key To The Future Of AI
As a VP at F5, Christine Puccio is a leader in the technology industry and a champion for diversity and inclusion. Imagine you've just turned on your computer and it suddenly tells you all about itself. What it is, what it can do and all its capabilities. "The more humans share with me, the more I learn," it says. "I come in many forms as artificial intelligence. Many companies utilize me to optimize their tasks. I can continue to learn on my own. I am making predictions on your life right now."
Sharing my AI knowledge digital garden with the world
This digital garden is a collection of notes and resources that I started to compile a couple of years ago as my best attempt to become a somewhat functional information junkie. It's where I curate, organize and catalog the stuff I r e a d skim over everyday. "second brain", has been around for quite some time and is related to that of personal knowledge management. Digital gardens build upon note-taking methodologies such as Zettelkasten or Evergreen. In short, a digital garden is something in between a blog and a wiki; a way to accumulate personal knowledge over time in an explorable space and in a non-linear fashion, while benefiting from fancy features such as (bidirectional) links between different topics, and visual graphs or mind maps.
Common Failure Modes of Subcluster-based Sampling in Dirichlet Process Gaussian Mixture Models -- and a Deep-learning Solution
Winter, Vlad, Dinari, Or, Freifeld, Oren
The Dirichlet Process Gaussian Mixture Model (DPGMM) is often used to cluster data when the number of clusters is unknown. One main DPGMM inference paradigm relies on sampling. Here we consider a known state-of-art sampler (proposed by Chang and Fisher III (2013) and improved by Dinari et al. (2019)), analyze its failure modes, and show how to improve it, often drastically. Concretely, in that sampler, whenever a new cluster is formed it is augmented with two subclusters whose labels are initialized at random. Upon their evolution, the subclusters serve to propose a split of the parent cluster. We show that the random initialization is often problematic and hurts the otherwise-effective sampler. Specifically, we demonstrate that this initialization tends to lead to poor split proposals and/or too many iterations before a desired split is accepted. This slows convergence and can damage the clustering. As a remedy, we propose two drop-in-replacement options for the subcluster-initialization subroutine. The first is an intuitive heuristic while the second is based on deep learning. We show that the proposed approach yields better splits, which in turn translate to substantial improvements in performance, results, and stability.