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Re: Andrew Ng is raising a $150M AI Fund

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Post by fizwhiz » Thu, Aug 17, 2017, 1:41 PM UTC

narvind wrote: post #38

cr0sh wrote: post #5

I look at announcements like this, and past ones about Ng, and I always marvel at how things have gone since I took and completed his 2011 ML Class... That was one helluva course, challenging and interesting, and fun all at the same time (and so much "concretely" - lol). From what I understand, that course is still available thru Coursera (which Ng booted up after the ML Class experiment; Udacity was Thrun's contribu…

Nice. I wrote down my thoughts after taking his new DL course. Hope it helps you all :) https://medium.com/towards-data-science/thoughts-after-takin...

Excellent review! I haven't taken Ng's original ML course and noticed that you mentioned it would be a pre-requisite to taking any DL course (whether fast.ai or Ng's DL course). Care to elaborate why?

Re: Andrew Ng is raising a $150M AI Fund

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Post by flamedoge » Thu, Aug 17, 2017, 5:14 PM UTC

nl wrote: post #149

flamedoge wrote: post #120

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plus acquiring data is trivial compared to devising a good model

I think (hope) you missed a sarcasm tag there? I spend 90% of my time manipulating data to try to build bigger, better datasets, and only 5% modelling.

acquiring != manipulating

Re: Andrew Ng is raising a $150M AI Fund

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Post by forgotmysn » Thu, Aug 17, 2017, 11:02 PM UTC

tachyonbeam wrote: post #47

forgotmysn wrote: post #44

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there is usually a minimum investment amount. for a fund of this size, im guessing it would be around $5m

I find this really frustrating about tech investing. Much of the early investment opportunities are only available to the richest. It's an insider's game.

It's not unique to tech, but it's necessary for funds of this size. Let's say Andrew's entire fund is made up of $5m investors. That means he has to close at least 30 investors, which means he probably has to pitch 60-90. Not only that, but actively maintaining 30 relationships and making sure they are effectively informed of the funds progress is difficult and time consuming as well. Andrew's time is probably best spent working with portfolio companies on their tech, so the less time he has to spend courting and showing love to LP's the better.

That's why they limit investment size. It's not to be purposefully exclusionary, they just have to be mindful of efficient use of time.

Re: Andrew Ng is raising a $150M AI Fund

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Post by mongodude » Fri, Aug 18, 2017, 8:51 AM UTC

Tenoke wrote: post #112

mongodude wrote: post #96

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I would disagree on this point, humans unlike current AI systems can learn from one or two data points, especially at easier tasks like identifying cats. Current AI algorithms need huge labeled data sets for solving narrow problems so one needs to build more generalization ability to our current AI systems.

That's because we are already VERY pretrained on very similar tasks. You should look into transfer learning and one shot learning for examples of techniques that in practice do something very similar.

Yes, I have heard of transfer learning and used them in practice. Very powerful but still primitive. One-shot learning techniques are still to mature but I agree with you that technologies like these will reduce our reliance on datasets and make the AI algorithms learn in more human like way.

Re: Andrew Ng is raising a $150M AI Fund

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Post by evernflow » Sat, Aug 19, 2017, 2:01 AM UTC

zitterbewegung wrote: post #104

emerongi wrote: post #37

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It's still available. I've been taking it for the past month or so. After learning more about him, he's probably the only person in the world that I envy. I resonate with his ideas a lot, but I'm like 1% of what he is. It makes me a bit sad. I'll be taking his new course as well and hopefully one day I will be able to work in the same field as him.

You should focus on what you can do to make yourself a better person. Anyone on earth can compare themselves to another person and get the sense they feel inferior . Wherever You Go, There You Are.

Did you just quote buckaroo bonsai?