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 China

This 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 world

Enjoy the show!

 

Show Notes: https://ajgoldstein.com/podcast/ep6/ 

Andrew's LinkedIn: https://twitter.com/AndrewYNg

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