Data Journeys

#6: Andrew Ng — Globalizing Education, Disrupting Industries, & Generalizing Artificial Intelligence

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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, Faceboo