Broad Interest Courses

Understanding AI: Technology Transforming Society

This dynamic, team-taught course introduces students to the ideas and technologies that are redefining the future of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Turing Award winner Yann LeCun opens the course with the foundations of modern AI and concludes with a forward-looking exploration of the breakthroughs that lie ahead. Students learn from NYU’s top AI researchers, who guide them through the major subfields of the discipline, including machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, robotics, and responsible AI. Throughout the course, students discover how AI is transforming industries around the world, with a special focus on innovations in healthcare and medicine, where reliability and human oversight are vital. This course offers an inspiring gateway into one of the most influential technologies of our time.

Prof. Yann LeCun’s Deep Learning Course

Reviews the latest techniques in deep learning and representation learning, focusing on supervised and unsupervised deep learning, embedding methods, metric learning, convolutional and recurrent nets, with applications to computer vision, natural language understanding, and speech recognition. 

Thinking, Learning, and Consciousness in Humans and Machines

Presided over by NYU’s David Stasavage, a rotating cast of experts will tackle some of the biggest questions in AI today, including AI and decision-making, criminal justice, disability, race, consciousness, and more.