Andrew Ng: Building Faster with AI [video]

Ng is now a businessman who sells courses. What startup has he built with "AI" himself?

He doesn’t have to at this point, he just throws money at younger ones that will build it.

I want an Andrew Ng Agent.

Baidu.

The video's description is about building startups through vibe coding, not using "AI" like self-driving or chatbots in startups.

Additionally, Baidu wasn't a startup when he joined in 2014.

... in essence, an "A-Ngent".-

(I'll see myself out ...)

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Ng built baidu's AI department and began their start in various sectors with actual AI system design, so yes, he isn't a failed startup entrepreneur like any vibe startup maker who already wants to stop and give advice.

Maybe you can help me hire a vibe coder with 10 years experience?

He built it without LLMs in 2014 and now he is selling LLMs for coding to the young. That is the entire point of this subthread.

Right.. He's just a giant, not a midget with a step ladder.

But I do question why anyone who played a significant role in the foundation of the current AI generation would teach an obvious new Zuckerberg generation who will apparently think they are the start of everything if they get a style working in the prompt.

If not for 3 people in 2012, I find it highly unlikely a venture like OpenAI could have occurred and without Ng in particular I wouldn't be surprised if the field would have been missing a few technical pieces as well as the hire-able engineers.

I'm serious, the man's a genius...

A good chunk of Ng's work these days seems to be around AI Fund [0] which he explicitly mentioned in the video, in the first 5 seconds, involves co-founding these startups and being in the weeds with the initial development.

Additionally, he does engage pretty closely with the teams behind the content of his deeplearning.ai lectures and does make sure he has a deep understanding of the products these companies are highlighting.

He certainly is a businessman, but that doesn't exlcudethe possibility that he remains highly knowledgeable about this space.

He's lost credibility in my eyes given that his courses essentially have a pay to play model for startups like langchain

Except they aren't pay to play unless you consider doing the work for the course the "payment". There's certainly an exchange since there is a lot of work involved, but DLAI provides a team to help design, structure and polish the course and then the team creating the course does the majority of the work creating the content, but there's no financial exchange.

The DLAI team is also pretty good about ensuring the content covers a topic not a product in general.

The content is a repackage of previously existing, publicly available notebooks, docs, YouTube videos. I wouldnt be surprised if the repackaging was done by AI.

Courses are not academic journals, dude. They're supposed to be teaching you existing knowledge.

Again this is not true. I’ve known several people who have made courses for DLAI and they all put substantial time into creating the courses.

He literally builds companies and hires ceos to run them Google it

> He literally builds companies

Like with actual mortar, brick by brick?