Welcome to AI for everyone.

 
AI is changing the way we work and live and 
this nontechnical 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. 
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 start by cutting through the hype and giving you 
a realistic view of what AI really is. Let's get started. 
You've probably seen news articles 
about how much value AI is creating. 
According to a study by McKinsey 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 into software industry, 
a lot of the value to be created in 
a future lies outside the software industry. 
In sectors such as retail, travel, transportation, 
automotive, materials, manufacturing and so on. 
I should 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 a challenge each other to name and 
industry where we don't think AI will have a huge impact. 
My best example was the hairdressing industry because we 
know how to use AI robotics to automate 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 at 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 the AI 
today is artificial narrow intelligence. 
These are AIs that do 
one thing such as a smart speaker or 
a 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 also refers to 
a second concept of 
AGI or artificial general intelligence. 
That is the goal to build AI. 
They can do anything a human can do or maybe even be 
superintelligence and do even more things 
than any human can. 
I'm seeing tons of progress in ANI, 
artificial narrow intelligence and almost no progress 
to what AGI or artificial general intelligence. 
Both of these are worthy goals and 
unfortunately the rapid progress in 
ANI 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 clever robots coming over 
to take over humanity anytime now. 
I think AGI is 
an exciting goal for researchers to work on, 
but it'll take most for 
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 ANI 
can do and how to apply them to your problems. 
Later in this, course you'll also see 
some case studies of how ANI, 
this 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 why this AI. 
You may have heard of machine learning and 
the next video will teach you what is machine learning. 
You also learn what is data and what types of 
data are valuable but also what 
does the 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 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 or cannot do, 
I think is important that you 
see examples of both so that you can 
make more accurate judgements 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 Neural 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'll learn how these AI technologies can be 
used to build valuable projects. 
You learn what it feels like to build 
an AI project as what 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'll 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 built complex AI products. 
Finally, AI is having a huge impact on society. 
In a fourth and final week, 
you'll learn about how AI systems can be 
bias and how to diminish or eliminate 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 recourse, 
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 your company or 
other organization navigate the rise of 
AI as I hope that after this course, 
you'll be in a position to 
provide leadership to others as 
well as they navigate these issues