#73 – Andrew Ng: Deep Learning, Education, and Real-World AI

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.


EPISODE LINKS:
Andrew Twitter: https://twitter.com/AndrewYNg
Andrew Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/andrew.ng.96
Andrew LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewyng/
deeplearning.ai: https://www.deeplearning.ai
landing.ai: https://landing.ai
AI Fund: https://aifund.ai/
AI for Everyone:
https://www.coursera.org/learn/ai-for-everyone
The Batch newsletter: https://www.deeplearning.ai/thebatch/


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OUTLINE:
00:00 – Introduction
02:23 – First few steps in AI
05:05 – Early days of online education
16:07 – Teaching on a whiteboard
17:46 – Pieter Abbeel and early research at Stanford
23:17 – Early days of deep learning
32:55 – Quick preview: deeplearning.ai, landing.ai, and AI
fund
33:23 – deeplearning.ai: how to get started in deep
learning
45:55 – Unsupervised learning
49:40 – deeplearning.ai (continued)
56:12 – Career in deep learning
58:56 – Should you get a PhD?
1:03:28 – AI fund – building startups
1:11:14 – Landing.ai – growing AI efforts in established
companies
1:20:44 – Artificial general intelligence