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:

00:00 – Introduction

02:23 – First few steps in AI

05:05 – 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