How Andrew Ng Perceives The AI-Powered World
Andrew Ng is a hero and a role model for everyone who is starting the machine learning journey. One of his earliestMachine Learningcourses saw lakhs of students enrolling and getting a huge boost to their careers. He is now back with a course inDeep Learningspecialisation supported by his company Deeplearning.ai.
Andrew Ng, one of the foremost artificial intelligence experts, is working hard to train more AI experts on a larger scale who can work across a range of industries. Ng has been an early adopter of online learning with the creation of Coursera. He now wants to train people to use the most powerful idea to have emerged in AI in recent years — deep learning.
As the demand for data scientists and AI experts is rising, their salaries are rising quickly too. Modern ML involves training computers to learn from data and there is an acute shortage of data scientists who have the skills in deep learning as well. DL involves teaching a machine to perform a complex task using large amounts of data along with a large simulated neural network. Basic knowledge of complex maths such as calculus, statistics, probability and linear algebra is a must to train good deep learning engineers. Maths forms the base of deep learning, since programming is just a way of teaching a computer the advancedconcepts.
Ng’s professional career has been an exciting ride. Afterreceiving hisPhDfromUniversity of California, Berkeleyin 2002, Ng was a professor at Stanford University Department of Computer Science and Department of Electrical Engineering. He became Director at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab where he taught students and undertook research related to data mining and ML.
From 2011 to 2012, he worked atGoogle, where he started theGoogle BrainDeep Learning Project. In 2012, he co-founded and was CEO ofCourserawhich offers free online courses for everyone. In 2014, he joinedBaiduas their chief scientist and carried out research related to big data and AI. In March 2017, he announced his resignation from Baidu.
He soon startedDeeplearning.ai, an online curriculum of classes. Then Ng launchedLanding.
