Kyunghyun Cho rebuilds NYU's ML fundamentals course for the post-ChatGPT era
kchonyc · x · 2026-09-13
NYU professor Kyunghyun Cho writes about redesigning his <Fundamentals of Machine Learning> course, first taught pre-pandemic in 2020 as <Introduction to Machine Learning>. An informal survey found most graduating CS students had never tried coding assistants, despite heading into software/data engineering jobs. His conviction: students must be allowed to make and learn from mistakes at school, not at work. The revamped course has two goals — teach the math/statistics fundamentals and how they materialize as ML algorithms without deep implementation details, and let students feel the process from fundamentals onward.
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