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Re: Artificial Intelligence Lecture Videos

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Post by zardo »

o2l wrote: post #9

Does anyone think these lectures would be a good place to start for someone with web development experience (LAMP + JS) and zero AI & ML knowledge ? If yes, what is missing from these lectures ( related to AI or ML or Deep Learning ) which has been discovered or developed recently and should be learned during the start ?

It's a great introduction to the broader world of AI, but you will barely skim the surface of ML.

Re: Artificial Intelligence Lecture Videos

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Post by o2l »

zardo wrote: post #11
o2l wrote: post #9

Does anyone think these lectures would be a good place to start for someone with web development experience (LAMP + JS) and zero AI & ML knowledge ? If yes, what is missing from these lectures ( related to AI or ML or Deep Learning ) which has been discovered or developed recently and should be learned during the start ?

It's a great introduction to the broader world of AI, but you will barely skim the surface of ML.

What would you recommend then ?

Re: Artificial Intelligence Lecture Videos

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Post by zardo »

BucketSort wrote: post #5
matmatmttam wrote: post #4

Anyone has lecture 20? - "Lecture 20, which focuses on the AI business, is not available."

Good catch. I can't seem to find it either on YouTube.

According to a YouTube comment... Prof. Winston did not allow OCW to share that lecture, no reason was given.

Re: Artificial Intelligence Lecture Videos

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Post by zardo »

o2l wrote: post #12
zardo wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a great introduction to the broader world of AI, but you will barely skim the surface of ML.

What would you recommend then ?

Andrew Ng's ML course and Chris Olah, Andrej Karpathy, and Jeremy Kun's blogs were great resources that contributed to my understanding of ML.

Re: Artificial Intelligence Lecture Videos

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Post by akhilcacharya »

zardo wrote: post #13
BucketSort wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good catch. I can't seem to find it either on YouTube.

According to a YouTube comment... Prof. Winston did not allow OCW to share that lecture, no reason was given.

He's keeping a competitive advantage for MIT students probably :)

Re: Artificial Intelligence Lecture Videos

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Post by asimuvPR »

todd8 wrote: post #6

I took this class given by Prof. Patrick Winston a while back, 43 or 44 years ago. I liked it so much back then, it served me well in grad school and for many years after. Next week I'm visiting with an AI company on behalf of potential investors.

You took the class 43-44 years ago? Is that a typo? If not, mind sharing more about your experience?

Re: Artificial Intelligence Lecture Videos

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Post by inovica »

I have a side project to monitor the homepage of every domain and I want to detect the type of site - ecommerce, blog, forum etc. I've just started on it and ultimately I want to be able to automatically extract data, such as product information from ecommerce sites. Would these videos help here or is there anywhere else that someone would recommend. I know I sounds very naive here... and I am, but there might be someone here who can give me a steer. I've started looking at AI/ML... or whatever its now called and getting a bit confused!

Re: Artificial Intelligence Lecture Videos

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Post by wittedhaddock »

matmatmttam wrote: post #4

Anyone has lecture 20? - "Lecture 20, which focuses on the AI business, is not available."

I had the same question, so I was sure to be there to audit this class. It was great. He goes into Geoff Moore's product distribution model... underscoring the importance of finding early adopters rather than already established huge guys who think a new technology is too risky. He acknowledges that if you build it they're not guaranteed to come. He shares several anecdotes from his time building Ascent Technologies, which I believe is airport-plane-traffic-management software (with AI) used by 80% or so of all airports in the U.S.
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