AI and EducationDhruv Parthasarathy

Director of ML & Self-Driving Car Program at Udacity

Udacity

AI Today - 1 second tasksAnything a human can do in a second, AI can do - Andrew NgDeep LearningAI is outright better than a group of humans inspeech detectionimage classificationGetting better attranslationdrivinggame playing

SpeechAccuracy capturing MandarinBaidu AI3.7%Single human9.7%Committee of humans4.0%

Speech Transcription

Image RecognitionHuman accuracy: 5% (Source: Karpathy)Latest Imagenet winner: 2.99%

Driving

Learning

AI & CreativityExamples of creativity:MusicArtWritingGames

MusicWhich is AI, which is real?

Art

Art

Generating Images

Generating Images

Games + Learning

Its not a human move. Ive never seen a human play this move, he says. So beautiful.

AI & EducationLots to explore in modern AI and ML. How do you learn it?Traditional Options:Grad SchoolReading PapersBlogs + GithubsJobNew OptionsUdacity, Coursera, General Assembly etc.

Udacity NanodegreesOnline Programs built with industry where youbuild a portfolio of projectswork with a community of other studentsget career servicespersonalized support

Personalized Feedback

Personalized Tutoring

Community

Community

Self-Driving Car Nanodegree9 month program to become a Self-Driving Car EngineerTaught byMercedes-BenzNVIDIAOtto/UberOver 2000 active students at the moment

Projects

Machine Learning NanodegreeSelf-paced program coveringData Analysis and ProcessingSupervised LearningUnsupervised LearningReinforcement LearningDeep Learning

AI NanodegreeCreated withAmazon Echo TeamIBM WatsonFocusClassic AIDeep LearningNLP

Why?People need a pathway to new skills that isaccessibleageincomegeojob focusedgets you to a lifetime of learning w/ a jobcommunity focused

Why?Industry needs people who arejob readyfastlargediverseagegeoincomegender

dhruv@udacity.com@dhruvpThank you!