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Re: Artificial Intelligence Graduate Certificate

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Post by ganeshkrishnan »

sharps_xp wrote: post #7

Are ML/AI certificate holders competing for the same jobs as ML/AI PhD graduates? I have a list of follow up questions to this but it seems like there's a lot of hype for ML/AI/DeepLearning but no definitive way to track this new job market. These online programs, although more accessible, are doing the same thing as their physical campus counter part and not being transparent about what to expect after finishing the…

ML/AI is very new field. I heard someone say "AI is like teenage sex. Everyone is talking about it but no one is sure how to do it"

So for jobs, ML/AI is pretty much an even field unless there are niche research jobs which only requires Phd gradudates

Re: Artificial Intelligence Graduate Certificate

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Post by mindcrime »

snowcrshd wrote: post #6
b1gtuna wrote: post #4

Would anyone recommend this over doing a masters degree in the similar area of study but at a local university (ie. not Standford)?

I'm curious about this as well. I have interest in AI, but I'm not sure how companies would see this online degree (even through it is from Stanford).

I would think it depends on the company. Remember, the world is a LOT bigger than GoogHooBookSoftBer or whatever. Walk into Tom's Auto Salvage or City Chevrolet or Barney's Screen Doors and Small-Engine Repair and show them that you can produce value for their business, and I don't think they're going to give a hoot if your degree/certificate/whatever is from Stanford, Yale, UNC-W, ECPI, or University of Phoenix.

Re: Artificial Intelligence Graduate Certificate

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Post by cr0sh »

b1gtuna wrote: post #4

Would anyone recommend this over doing a masters degree in the similar area of study but at a local university (ie. not Standford)?

Disclaimer: I do not hold any kind of real degree (just an Associates from a defunct tech school - worth little to nothing now) - so take the following for what it is...

Based on my experience, which I won't re-iterate here - the various MOOCs I've taken (and currently the Udacity Nanodegree) would not be anywhere close to a masters in the subject (unless I am severely overestimating a masters - but I don't think so).

TBH - they would probably equate closer to an Associates, at best.

This offering from Stanford? Not sure - but I still don't think it would be the equivalent. I'm not saying it wouldn't be worthwhile, but I think if your goal is a deep level of knowledge and understanding of the subject, then a quality masters program for CompSci or similar would be the better path.

Re: Artificial Intelligence Graduate Certificate

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Post by melling »

realitygrill wrote: post #11
dswalter wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's a [edit:perfectly fine] example to choose for a Stanford MOOC, since Coursera was started based on the success of Andrew Ng's machine learning course. edit: People below (and above) are more knowledgeable than I am.

Actually, Thrun's AI course, Ng's ML course, and Widom's Databases course were announced and ran pretty much simultaneously. They were all successful, but only Thrun decided to split off because of it.

I noticed that Andrew's course is still available.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning

Is it still a good introduction to machine learning? It's several years old now. Are there better courses available?

Re: Artificial Intelligence Graduate Certificate

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Post by zardo »

sharps_xp wrote: post #7

Are ML/AI certificate holders competing for the same jobs as ML/AI PhD graduates? I have a list of follow up questions to this but it seems like there's a lot of hype for ML/AI/DeepLearning but no definitive way to track this new job market. These online programs, although more accessible, are doing the same thing as their physical campus counter part and not being transparent about what to expect after finishing the…

What will the AI expert job market be like in two years? Expectations seem to be running high, people see promising trends, but no one can see the future. At least, not yet, I think. Maybe there's a new paper.

Re: Artificial Intelligence Graduate Certificate

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Post by nkozyra »

mindcrime wrote: post #20
nkozyra wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hard to say without having taken these classes. GT isn't Stanford but a top 10 MSCS that offers an ML specialization for ~$8k-$10k. Whether that provides more value or employment opportunity I cannot say, but it is encouraging to see more to universities offering an alternative to traditional degree programs. I think there's a path for non-MS, non-PhD backgrounds, but probably not now. Outside of the big companies, M…

Outside of the big companies, ML/AI is often a solution without a problem. I would say just the opposite. There isn't a business too small to benefit from ML/AI. That is, assuming you acknowledge that there's more to ML/AI than "deep learning". Not everybody needs a deep neural network. Sometimes you just need linear regression or a random forest. If you come at it from that point of view, the knowledge you gain from…

> There isn't a business too small to benefit from ML/AI.

That's not exactly what I'm saying. There are ML problems everywhere, opportunities to create efficiencies, new products, etc. out of existing data and processes. But nobody hires an AI/ML candidate to come in and tell them what to do. Nobody says "we want to dabble in ML somehow but don't have any pressing needs, can you start at $140K?"

Those businesses need to recognize the opportunities first before the market will expand.

Re: Artificial Intelligence Graduate Certificate

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Post by eranation »

jtagen wrote: post #26

Why not take the Georgia Tech online MSCS instead? Only $7k, you get a Master's degree instead of a 'Certificate', and you have the option of covering a lot of the same material.

Yep. And Sebastian Thrun's course (the Stanford professor, google VP, Udacity founder and google driverless car initiator) is part of that program. You can take AI for robotics for credit there :)

Re: Artificial Intelligence Graduate Certificate

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Post by ktta »

melling wrote: post #24
realitygrill wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually, Thrun's AI course, Ng's ML course, and Widom's Databases course were announced and ran pretty much simultaneously. They were all successful, but only Thrun decided to split off because of it.

I noticed that Andrew's course is still available. https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning Is it still a good introduction to machine learning? It's several years old now. Are there better courses available?

That course is a very good basic machine learning course. It has many of the stepping stones to complex machine learning problems, no matter which specific field.

So yes, it is a good intro to machine learning. There are new advances coming up all the time. But you will definitely need to know most of the topics in that course. That is, if you want to properly understand most of the latest techniques.

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