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Andrew Ng: Building Faster with AI [video]

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242 points sandslash | 5 comments | 10 Jul 25 14:02 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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bgwalter ◴[11 Jul 25 17:21 UTC] No.44534786[source]▶
Ng is now a businessman who sells courses. What startup has he built with "AI" himself?
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crystal_revenge ◴[11 Jul 25 21:58 UTC] No.44537177[source]▶
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.

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1. dcreater ◴[11 Jul 25 22:29 UTC] No.44537417[source]▶
He's lost credibility in my eyes given that his courses essentially have a pay to play model for startups like langchain
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2. crystal_revenge ◴[11 Jul 25 23:15 UTC] No.44537759[source]▶
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.

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3. dcreater ◴[12 Jul 25 00:30 UTC] No.44538205[source]▶
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.
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4. raincole ◴[12 Jul 25 01:15 UTC] No.44538452{3}[source]▶
Courses are not academic journals, dude. They're supposed to be teaching you existing knowledge.
5. crystal_revenge ◴[12 Jul 25 01:41 UTC] No.44538581{3}[source]▶
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.