#6: Andrew Ng — Globalizing Education, Disrupting Industries, & Generalizing Artificial Intelligence
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English - April 11, 2018 22:09 - 44 minutes - 20.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsTechnology Business Careers analytics artificialintelligence business datascience education learning machinelearning technology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Andrew Ng is an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University and nothing short of a giant in the data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence world.
For the past decade he’s been shaping the way we live and learn. Four recent examples include:
Co-Founder of Coursera: an education platform that offers online courses from top universities across the world Chairman of the Board for Woebot: a chatbot that’s currently revolutionizing mental health care Creator of DeepLearning.AI: a series of specialization courses created to help beginners break into the field of AI Former Chief Scientist at Baidu AI Group: basically the Google of ChinaThis conversation was recorded in-person with Andrew in his office on Stanford’s campus in Palo Alto, California.
We covered a ton of different topics, including:
the goals of Andrew's new $175M AI Fund how he plans to revolutionize manufacturing strategies for ML practitioners to tighten their feedback loop what differentiates the best businesses like Amazon, Facebook, & Google from the rest in terms of their use of AI the lack of progress he's seeing toward artificial general intelligence and the so called "technology singularity" why going to college for 4 years and coasting for 40 years makes no sense in today's rapidly changing worldEnjoy the show!
Show Notes: https://ajgoldstein.com/podcast/ep6/
Andrew’s LinkedIn: https://twitter.com/AndrewYNg
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