Learning about (Deep) Learning
In anticipation of the upcoming NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC), Will Ramey joins Daniel and Chris to talk about education for artificial intelligence practitioners, and specifically the role that the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute plays in the industry. Will’s insights from long experience are shaping how we all stay on top of AI, so don’t miss this ‘must learn’ episode.
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Will Ramey: Well, I mentioned earlier how the evolution of NVIDIA over time has been supported by lots of small experiments… And one of the experiments that we did at GTC in the spring of this year was to offer our hands-on Deep Learning Institute training in a virtual environment. We had never done that before, and we had certainly never done it at the scale of trying to train thousands of people at the same time as part of a GTC, in these virtual classrooms.
I’m just incredibly proud of the work that our Deep Learning Institute team did to pull that together, to work out all the kinks, to cross-train all of the instructors and teaching assistants, so that thousands of people who attended those trainings in March could have a great hands-on learning experience… And I’m really excited that this upcoming GTC is a place where we’re gonna offer 16 of these workshops, timed so that several of them are available in the North-American timezone, several are available in the European timezone, and several are gonna be available in the Asian timezones. We’ll be offering our brand new fundamentals of deep learning course for everybody who just kind of wants to get started and understand what the basics are, get their hands dirty, training their first neural networks… We have a completely all-new, updated natural language processing course that’s based on the state of the art tensors-based approaches to natural language processing, and we also have a brand new recommender systems course that will help people learn how to build recommendation systems and integrate them into their applications.
[28:08] And as always, the other courses, including the multi-GPU course have been updated, there’s a new course on CUDA… The Deep Learning Institute program has helped us to train over 250,000 people worldwide in the last several years, and the demand for access to this kind of hands-on learning by doing style of training is just continuing to increase, and we’re really excited about being able to offer that in an even larger way at GTC this October.