{"id":84104,"date":"2018-10-27T02:22:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T09:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/new-schemes-teach-the-masses-to-build-ai"},"modified":"2018-10-27T02:22:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T09:22:22","slug":"new-schemes-teach-the-masses-to-build-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/new-schemes-teach-the-masses-to-build-ai","title":{"rendered":"New schemes teach the masses to build AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-schemes-teach-the-masses-to-build-ai.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That is changing. This month <a href=\"http:\/\/fast.ai\">fast.ai<\/a>, an education non-profit based in San Francisco, kicked off the third year of its course in deep learning. Since its inception it has attracted more than 100,000 students, scattered around the globe from India to Nigeria. The course and others like it come with a simple proposition: there is no need to spend years obtaining a phd in order to practise deep learning. Creating software that learns can be taught as a craft, not as a high intellectual pursuit to be undertaken only in an ivory tower. <a href=\"http:\/\/Fast.ai\">Fast.ai<\/a>\u2019s course can be completed in just seven weeks.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Treating it like a craft is paying dividends.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-schemes-teach-the-masses-to-build-ai.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" srcSet=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/200-width\/images\/2018\/10\/articles\/main\/20181027_wbp503.jpg 200w, \/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/300-width\/images\/2018\/10\/articles\/main\/20181027_wbp503.jpg 300w, \/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/400-width\/images\/2018\/10\/articles\/main\/20181027_wbp503.jpg 400w, \/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/640-width\/images\/2018\/10\/articles\/main\/20181027_wbp503.jpg 640w, \/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/800-width\/images\/2018\/10\/articles\/main\/20181027_wbp503.jpg 800w, \/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/1000-width\/images\/2018\/10\/articles\/main\/20181027_wbp503.jpg 1000w, \/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/1200-width\/images\/2018\/10\/articles\/main\/20181027_wbp503.jpg 1200w, \/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/1280-width\/images\/2018\/10\/articles\/main\/20181027_wbp503.jpg 1280w,\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/1600-width\/images\/2018\/10\/articles\/main\/20181027_wbp503.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 600px)  640px, calc(100vw - 20px)\"\/><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/business\/2018\/10\/27\/new-schemes-teach-the-masses-to-build-ai\">https:\/\/www.economist.com\/business\/2018\/10\/27\/new-schemes-te...o-build-ai<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That is changing. This month fast.ai, an education non-profit based in San Francisco, kicked off the third year of its course in deep learning. Since its inception it has attracted more than 100,000 students, scattered around the globe from India to Nigeria. The course and others like it come with a simple proposition: there is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}