Kyunghyun Cho reflects on returning to NYU’s machine-learning fundamentals course

Kyunghyun Cho describes teaching Fundamentals of Machine Learning at NYU for computer science seniors, alongside some juniors and seniors from other majors, including data science and economics. He says the course was called Introduction to Machine Learning when he previously taught it in spring 2020. That class began before ChatGPT and was interrupted midway through by the university’s first pandemic lockdown—the backdrop for his reflection on teaching in a different era.