Introduce yourself: What’s your background? Did you have a technical role prior to enrolling in the course? Throughout my life I’ve juggled my love of both science and music. I was a physics major in...
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The co-founder of Google’s deep-learning research team on the promise of a conditional basic income, the need for a skills-based education system and what CEOs don’t understand about artificial intelligence Sentient artificial intelligence may take...
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Introduce yourself: What’s your background? I am a Senior AI Strategist in the applied AI initiative at Unternehmertum, a German start-up incubator and innovation consultancy. I also work freelance as an AI programmer. These jobs...
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Take AI not just to the great shiny tech companies, but also to industries like manufacturing, agriculture, or healthcare where the value creation is very large. How can enterprises can transform using AI? Andrew...
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Andrew Ng and Atlantic Senior Editor Ross Andersen spoke at the Atlantic Festival in Washington DC on October 4th, 2018. Andrew and Ross discuss the global effects of AI – its upside and its...
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What can developing countries do to benefit from AI? Skip to 21:45 to watch World Bank President Jim Yong Kim and Andrew’s fireside chat at the IFC Emerging Markets Venture Forum on October 4,...
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Dawn Song is well-known for her research on the intersection of deep learning and security. Aside from her research, Song is also a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley and CEO of Oasis Labs, a blockchain startup that is creating a privacy-first cloud computing platform on blockchain.
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Introduce yourself: What’s your background? Did you have a technical role prior to enrolling in the course? My background is split between a traditional business education and a computer science education. I studied Business Administration...
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Introduce yourself: What’s your background? Did you have a technical role prior to enrolling in the course? I do not have a technical background. I spent about eight years as an Army Officer, leading small...
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Introduce yourself: What’s your background? Did you have a technical role prior to enrolling in the course? I am an IT engineer from Nirma University, India working currently as a data scientist in a US-based...
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“One way that you could get a lot of attention is to write good code and put it on Github. If you have an interesting project that solves a problem that someone working at...
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“One of the things I’ve learned in my career is that you have to do things before they’re obvious to everyone if you want to make a difference and get the best result.” In...
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“Read enough to develop your intuitions, then trust your intuitions.” Geoffrey Hinton is known by many to be the godfather of deep learning. Aside from his seminal 1986 paper on backpropagation, Hinton has invented several...
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One selling point of MOOCs (massive online open courses) has been that students can access courses from the world’s most famous universities. The assumption—especially in the marketing messages from major providers like Coursera and edX—is...
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“The vast majority of the economic value created by the modern rise of AI today is through one technique called supervised learning, which just means learning input to output mappings.” Recent breakthroughs in Artificial...
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“If you want to get into [AI], make yourself useful. So make a contribution to an open-source project for example, or make an implementation of some standard algorithm that you couldn’t find the code of...
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“Anything a typical person can do with less than a second of thinking we can probably now, or soon, automate. Why is deep learning taking off now? What are the limitations of AI? Why...
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“Don’t be afraid of the math. Just develop the intuitions and then the math becomes easier to understand once you get the hang of what’s going on at the intuitive level.” Along with Geoffrey...
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“In academia, I feel like you have more freedom to work on long-term problems. At the same time, the research you do in industry is also very exciting because, in many cases, you can...
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“When I started studying deep learning, there weren’t many open-source resources. I think now in AI, and especially deep learning, there is a very good community and good deep learning frameworks to start with.”...
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