#73 – Andrew Ng: Deep Learning, Education, and Real-World AI

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.

EPISODE LINKS: Andrew Twitter: https://twitter.com/AndrewYNg Andrew Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/andrew.ng.96 Andrew LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewyng/ deeplearning.ai: https://www.deeplearning.ai landing.ai: https://landing.ai AI Fund: https://aifund.ai/ AI for Everyone: https://www.coursera.org/learn/ai-for-everyone The Batch newsletter: https://www.deeplearning.ai/thebatch/

This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it 5 stars on Apple Podcasts, follow on Spotify, or support it on Patreon.

This episode is presented by Cash App. Download it (App Store, Google Play), use code "LexPodcast". 

This episode is also supported by the Techmeme Ride Home podcast. Get it on Apple Podcasts, on its website, or find it by searching "Ride Home" in your podcast app.

Here's the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.

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 https://lexfridman.com/andrew-ng/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=andrew-ng

Created 2y | Jun 21, 2023, 7:34:55 PM


Login to add comment

Other posts in this group

#465 – Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

Robert Rodriguez is a legendary filmmaker and creator of Sin City, El Mariachi, Desperado, Spy Kids, Machete, From Dusk Till Dawn, Alita: Battle Angel, The Faculty, and his newest venture Brass Knuckl

Apr 17, 2025, 6:10:03 PM | LEX FRIDMAN
#464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism

Dave Smith is a comedian, libertarian, political commentator, and the host of Part of the Problem podcast. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep464-sc Se

Apr 9, 2025, 3:40:20 AM | LEX FRIDMAN
#463 – Douglas Murray: Putin, Zelenskyy, Trump, Israel, Netanyahu, Hamas & Gaza

Douglas Murray is the author of On Democracies and Death Cults, The War on The West, and The Madness of Crowds. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep463-

Mar 30, 2025, 9:20:04 PM | LEX FRIDMAN
#462 – Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson: Politics, Trump, AOC, Elon & DOGE

Ezra Klein is one of the most influential voices representing the left-wing of American politics. He is a columnist for the NY Times and host of The Ezra Klein Show. Derek Thompson is a writer at The

Mar 26, 2025, 10:40:05 AM | LEX FRIDMAN
#461 – ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God

ThePrimeagen (aka Michael Paulson) is a programmer who has educated, entertained, and inspired millions of people to build software and have fun doing it. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our spons

Mar 22, 2025, 8:50:05 PM | LEX FRIDMAN
#460 – Narendra Modi: Prime Minister of India – Power, Democracy, War & Peace

Narendra Modi is the Prime Minister of India. On YouTube this episode is available in English, Hindi, Russian (and soon other languages). Captions and voice-over audio tracks are provided (for the mai

Mar 16, 2025, 2:20:06 PM | LEX FRIDMAN
#459 – DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters

Dylan Patel is the founder of SemiAnalysis, a research & analysis company specializing in semiconductors, GPUs, CPUs, and AI hardware. Nathan Lambert is a research scientist at the Allen Institute for

Feb 3, 2025, 5:30:16 AM | LEX FRIDMAN