#73 – Andrew Ng: Deep Learning, Education, and Real-World AI
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<p>Andrew Ng is one of the most impactful educators, researchers, innovators, and leaders in artificial intelligence and technology space in general. He co-founded Coursera and Google Brain, launched deeplearning.ai, Landing.ai, and the AI fund, and was the Chief Scientist at Baidu. As a Stanford professor, and with Coursera and deeplearning.ai, he has helped educate and inspire millions of students including me.</p>
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Andrew Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewYNg">https://twitter.com/AndrewYNg</a><br />
Andrew Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/andrew.ng.96">https://www.facebook.com/andrew.ng.96</a><br />
Andrew LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewyng/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewyng/</a><br />
deeplearning.ai: <a href="https://www.deeplearning.ai">https://www.deeplearning.ai</a><br />
landing.ai: <a href="https://landing.ai">https://landing.ai</a><br />
AI Fund: <a href="https://aifund.ai/">https://aifund.ai/</a><br />
AI for Everyone: <a href="https://www.coursera.org/learn/ai-for-everyone">https://www.coursera.org/learn/ai-for-everyone</a><br />
The Batch newsletter: <a href="https://www.deeplearning.ai/thebatch/">https://www.deeplearning.ai/thebatch/</a></p>
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<p>Here’s the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.</p>
<p>OUTLINE:<br />
00:00 – Introduction<br />
02:23 – First few steps in AI<br />
05:05 – Early days of online education<br />
16:07 – Teaching on a whiteboard<br />
17:46 – Pieter Abbeel and early research at Stanford<br />
23:17 – Early days of deep learning<br />
32:55 – Quick preview: deeplearning.ai, landing.ai, and AI fund<br />
33:23 – deeplearning.ai: how to get started in deep learning<br />
45:55 – Unsupervised learning<br />
49:40 – deeplearning.ai (continued)<br />
56:12 – Career in deep learning<br />
58:56 – Should you get a PhD?<br />
1:03:28 – AI fund – building startups<br />
1:11:14 – Landing.ai – growing AI efforts in established companies<br />
1:20:44 – Artificial general intelligence</p>