Andrew Ng: Deep Learning, Education, and Real-World AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #73

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.

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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
2:23 - First few steps in AI
5:05 - 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

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