AI for Everyone by Andrew Ng

Welcome to AI for everyone. AI is

changing the way we work and live. And

this non-technical course will teach you how to navigate the rise of AI. Whether

you want to know what's behind the buzzwords or whether you want to perhaps use AI yourself either in a personal context or in a corporation or other organization, this course will teach you

how. And if you want to understand how

how. And if you want to understand how AI is affecting society and how you can navigate that, you also learn that from this course. In this first week, we'll

this course. In this first week, we'll start by cutting through the hype and giving you a realistic view of what AI

really is. Let's get started.

really is. Let's get started.

You've probably seen news articles about how much value AI is creating. According

to a study by McKenzie Global Institute, AI is estimated to create an additional 13 trillion US dollars of value annually

by the year 2030. Even though AI is already creating tremendous amounts of value in the software industry, a lot of the value to be created in the future lies outside the software industry in

sectors such as retail, travel, transportation automotive materials manufacturing, and so on.

I actually have a hard time thinking of an industry that I don't think AI will have a huge impact on in the next several years. My friends and I used to

several years. My friends and I used to challenge each other to name an industry where we don't think AI will have a huge impact. And my best example was the

impact. And my best example was the hairdressing industry because you know how to use AI or robotics to automate hairdressing. But I once said this on

hairdressing. But I once said this on stage and one of my friends who is a robotics professor was in the audience that day and she actually stood up and she looked at me in the eye and she said, "You know, Andrew, most people's

hairstyles I couldn't get a robot to cut their hair that way." But she looked me and said, "Your hairstyle, Andrew, that a robot can do." There is a lot of

excitement, but also a lot of unnecessary hype about AI. One of the reasons for this is because AI is

actually two separate ideas. Almost all

the progress we are seeing in AI today is artificial narrow intelligence. These

are AIs that do one thing such as a smart speaker or self-driving car or AI to do web search or AI applications in farming or in a factory. These types of

AI are one trick ponies. But when you find the appropriate trick, this can be incredibly valuable. Unfortunately, AI

incredibly valuable. Unfortunately, AI also refers to a second concept of AGI or artificial general intelligence.

That is the goal to build AI that can do anything a human can do or maybe even be super intelligent and do even more things than any human can. I'm seeing

tons of progress in a NI artificial narrow intelligence and almost no progress toward AGI or artificial general intelligence. Both of these are

general intelligence. Both of these are worthy goals and unfortunately the rapid progress in AI which is incredibly valuable that has caused people to conclude that there's a lot of progress

in AI which is true but that has caused people to falsely think that there might be a lot of progress in AGI as well which is leading to some irrational

fears about evil killer robots coming over to take over humanity any time now.

I think AGI is an exciting goal for researchers to work on, but it'll take multiple technological breakthroughs before we get there. And it may be decades or hundreds of years or even

thousands of years away. Given how far away AGI is, I think there is no need to unduly worry about it. In this week, you

will learn what AI can do and how to apply them to your problems. Later in this course, you also see some case studies of how ANI, these one-trick

ponies, can be used to build really valuable applications such as smart speakers and self-driving cars. In this

week, you will learn what is AI. You may

have heard of machine learning and the next video will teach you what is machine learning. You also learn what is

machine learning. You also learn what is data and what types of data are valuable, but also what types of data are not valuable. You learn what it is

that makes a company an AI company or an AI first company. So that perhaps you can start thinking if there are ways to improve your company or other

organizations ability to use AI. And

importantly, you also learned this week what machine learning can and cannot do in our society. Newspapers as well as research papers tend to talk only about

the success stories of machine learning and AI. And we hardly ever see any

and AI. And we hardly ever see any failure stories because they just aren't as interesting to report on. But for you to have a realistic view of what AI and

what machine learning can and cannot do, I think it's important that you see examples of both so that you can make more accurate judgments about what you

may and maybe should not try to use these technologies for. Finally, a lot of the recent rise of machine learning has been driven through the rise of deep

learning, sometimes also called neuronet networks. In the final two optional

networks. In the final two optional videos of this week, you can also see an intuitive explanation of deep learning so that you will better understand what

they can do particularly for a set of narrow ANI tasks. So that's what you learn this week and by the end of this week you have a sense of AI technologies

and what they can and cannot do. In the

second week, you learn how these AI technologies can be used to build valuable projects. You learn what it

valuable projects. You learn what it feels like to build an AI project, as well as what you should do to make sure you select projects that are technically

feasible as well as valuable to you or your business or other organization.

After learning what it takes to build AI projects, in the third week, you learn how to build AI in your company. In

particular, if you want to take a few steps toward making your company good at AI, you see the AI transformation playbook and learn how to build AI teams

and also build complex AI products.

Finally, AI is having a huge impact on society. In the fourth and final week,

society. In the fourth and final week, you learn about how AI systems can be biased and how to diminish or eliminate

such biases. You also learn how AI is

such biases. You also learn how AI is affecting developing economies and how AI is affecting jobs and be better able

to navigate this rise of AI for yourself and for your organization.

By the end of this four-week course, you'll be more knowledgeable and better qualified than even the CEOs of most large companies in terms of your

understanding of AI technology as well as your ability to help yourself or help your company or other organization navigate the rise of AI. And so I hope that after this course, you'll be in a

position to provide leadership to others as well as they navigate these issues.

Now, one of the major technologies driving the recent rise of AI is machine learning. But what is machine learning?

learning. But what is machine learning?

Let's take a look in the next video.