#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> <p>EPISODE LINKS:<br /> 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> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast.</span>&#160;If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to <a href="https://lexfridman.com/ai">https://lexfridman.com/ai</a> or connect with @lexfridman on <a href="https://twitter.com/lexfridman">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman/">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://medium.com/@lexfridman">Medium</a>, or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/lexfridman">YouTube</a> where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it 5 stars on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/artificial-intelligence/id1434243584">Apple Podcasts</a>, follow on <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/2MAi0BvDc6GTFvKFPXnkCL">Spotify</a>, or support it on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman">Patreon</a>.</p> <p>This episode is presented by Cash App. Download it (<a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cash-app/id711923939">App Store</a>, <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.squareup.cash&#38;hl=en_US">Google Play</a>), use code &#8220;LexPodcast&#8221;.&#160;</p> <p>This episode is also supported by the Techmeme Ride Home podcast. Get it on <a href="https://apple.co/2vIbh1k">Apple Podcasts</a>, on its <a href="https://news.techmeme.com/180306/podcast">website</a>, or find it by searching &#8220;Ride Home&#8221; in your podcast app.</p> <p>Here&#8217;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 &#8211; Introduction<br /> 02:23 &#8211; First few steps in AI<br /> 05:05 &#8211; Early days of online education<br /> 16:07 &#8211; Teaching on a whiteboard<br /> 17:46 &#8211; Pieter Abbeel and early research at Stanford<br /> 23:17 &#8211; Early days of deep learning<br /> 32:55 &#8211; Quick preview: deeplearning.ai, landing.ai, and AI fund<br /> 33:23 &#8211; deeplearning.ai: how to get started in deep learning<br /> 45:55 &#8211; Unsupervised learning<br /> 49:40 &#8211; deeplearning.ai (continued)<br /> 56:12 &#8211; Career in deep learning<br /> 58:56 &#8211; Should you get a PhD?<br /> 1:03:28 &#8211; AI fund &#8211; building startups<br /> 1:11:14 &#8211; Landing.ai &#8211; growing AI efforts in established companies<br /> 1:20:44 &#8211; Artificial general intelligence</p>