Today he invests in and builds an array of AI start-ups, runs one of his own, and continues to teach courses on AI. Its popularity, along with that of other “massive open online courses”, or Moocs, at the time, led Ng and his colleague Daphne Koller to found online education provider Coursera.Ī few years later Ng moved to Baidu, the Chinese search giant, to help deepen its autonomous driving and AI research efforts. This research became known informally as the “Cat Paper” and laid the groundwork for future advances in artificial intelligence.Īt around the same time, from his perch as a Stanford professor, Ng pushed into online teaching, making a course on machine learning available to anyone with an internet connection.
After training, the system could identify features such as cats in images it had not encountered before - even though it had not been explicitly taught how. Just over a decade ago, Andrew Ng was part of a Google Brain project that showed the power of deep learning technology.įor three days, Ng’s team fed a neural network millions of unlabelled images from YouTube videos. Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.
