Andrew Ng on AI Vision, Agents and Business Value

My guest today is the inimitable Andrew Ng! In his trademark, clear-spoken style, Andrew gives us a glimpse of the Agentic A.I. future, particularly how the coming Vision Agent tsunami will change the world.

I suspect pretty much everyone knows Dr. Ng already, but just in case:

• As director of Stanford University's AI Lab, his research group played a key role in the development of deep learning (which led to him to founding the influential Google Brain team) as well as educating millions on machine learning (and leading to him co-founding Coursera).

• Is Managing General Partner of AI Fund, a world-leading A.I. venture studio.

• Was CEO (is now Executive Chairman) of LandingAI, a computer-vision platform that specializes in domain-specific Large Vision Models (analogous to LLMs for language).

• Founded DeepLearning.AI, which provides excellent technical training on ML, deep learning (of course!), generative A.I. and many other associated subjects.

• Was co-CEO (as well as co-founder and chairman) of Coursera, which brought online learning from 300 leading universities to over 100 million students.

This episode was recorded live at the ScaleUp:AI conference in New York a few weeks ago. Thanks to George Mathew and Jennifer Jordan for inviting me back to the conference to interview Andrew :)

In today’s, Andrew details:

• Why a cheaper A.I. model with smart agentic A.I. workflow might outperform more expensive, more advanced models.

• The surprising truth about A.I. API costs that most businesses don't realize.• How Marvin Minsky's "Society of Mind" theory from the 1980s is making an unexpected comeback in modern A.I.

• A groundbreaking new way to process visual data that goes beyond traditional computer vision.

• Why unstructured data will be the key to A.I.'s next big revolution.

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