Noah Gift, founder of Pragmatic AI Labs, shares his personal journey from working in TV/film to building an alternative university that combines the best of academia, content creation, and industry experience to provide cutting-edge AI/ML education accessible to all.

Add a full description of what happened in this episode, including topics discussed, useful timestamps, useful episode notes and any additional links you may want to share: Noah Gift traces his path to founding Pragmatic AI Labs, an alternative learning platform for AI/ML skills. Key points:

• Gained early experience in TV/film, IT, and visual effects at major studios like ABC, Disney, Sony (1:00)
• Transitioned to startups, consulting, and teaching machine learning which inspired the vision for Pragmatic AI Labs (5:30)
• Draws upon 8 years teaching graduate-level data science/AI at top universities like UC Berkeley, Duke, Northwestern (7:00)
• Extensive content creation with O'Reilly, Pearson, Udacity, edX, Coursera - 40 courses equivalent to 2 master's degrees (9:00)
• Pragmatic AI Labs uniquely combines strengths of universities (elite research), content companies (speed, quality), and industry (real-world relevance) (12:00)
• Currently offers 40 cutting-edge courses on edX spanning Python, Rust, data engineering, MLOps, generative AI, LLMs (14:00)
• Upcoming plans: onboarding top authors, growing Discord community, investing in podcasts (18:00)
• Transitioning to a transparent public benefit corporation to support authors, offer free learning pathways, further the mission of expanding access to AI/ML education (19:00)

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