IN JULY 2011 Sebastian Thrun, who among other things is a professor at Stanford, posted a short video on YouTube, announcing that he and a colleague, Peter Norvig, were making their "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence" course available free online. By the time the course began in October, 160,000 people in 190 countries had signed up for it. At the same time Andrew Ng, also a Stanford professor, made one of his courses, on machine learning, available free online, for which 100,000 people enrolled. Both courses ran for ten weeks. Such online courses, with short video lectures, discussion boards for students and systems to grade their coursework automatically, became known as Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).

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Machines are eating humans' jobs talents. And it's not just about jobs that are repetitive and low-skill. Automation, robotics, algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) in recent times have shown they can do equal or sometimes even better work than humans who are dermatologists, insurance claims adjusters, lawyers, seismic testers in oil fields, sports journalists and financial reporters, crew members on guided-missile destroyers, hiring managers, psychological testers, retail salespeople, and border patrol agents. Moreover, there is growing anxiety that technology developments on the near horizon will crush the jobs of the millions who drive cars and trucks, analyze medical tests and data, perform middle management chores, dispense medicine, trade stocks and evaluate markets, fight on battlefields, perform government functions, and even replace those who program software – that is, the creators of algorithms. People will create the jobs of the future, not simply train for them, ...

A third to half the jobs that we are currently employed in would disappear in the next 15 years; and yet your child is being prepared in school for those very same jobs that won't exist by the time they graduate. Our curriculum prepares us for a lifetime career, but a child today can expect to change jobs at least seven times over the course of their lives – and five of those jobs don't exist yet. The coming days would see us pursuing careers that we cannot even imagine today. For instance your child could be an expert licensed drone pilot, or a cyber warrior in the army, a data analyst making sense of the peta bytes of data generated through our social interactions and trying to forecast our behavior. The other big challenge facing students today is that the velocity of technology changes has gained incredible speed; this is making knowledge obsolete faster than before.

The E-learning course starts by refreshing the basic concepts of the analytics process model: data preprocessing, analytics and post processing. We then discuss decision trees and ensemble methods (bagging, boosting, random forests), neural networks, support vector machines (SVMs), Bayesian networks, survival analysis, social networks, monitoring and backtesting analytical models. Throughout the course, we extensively refer to our industry and research experience. The E-learning course consists of more than 20 hours of movies, each 5 minutes on average. Quizzes are included to facilitate the understanding of the material.

I'm a software engineer with 10 years of experience who recently decided to switch my focus to machine learning. I did the coursera course and did CS231n: Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition, read up on basic theory, did some image processing networks like VGG, Resnets and most recently trying to get Faster-RCNN to work, so my currently knowledge is ML basics and heavily focussed on ML in the Image domain. I recently landed my first ML job at a company that does mostly NLP, so I lack a lot of knowledge in that domain. I'm currently reading the NLTK book, which has been very approachable in introducing basic concepts in a code-focussed way. So I was wondering if anyone could point me to some good mid to advanced level resources (online courses/videos/books) to get up to speed with where the field is at now, to help me understand current research and more advanced concepts?

Deep learning is not a beginner-friendly subject -- even for experienced software engineers and data scientists. If you've been Googling this subject, you may have been confused by the resources you've come across. To find the best resources, we surveyed engineers on their favorite sources for deep learning, and these are what they recommended. These educational resources include online courses, in-person courses, books, and videos. All are completely free and designed by leading professors, researchers, and industry professionals like Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and Sebastian Thrun.

We have put together a list of highly rated and most enrolled online courses on Artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning. The list will keep on increasing as and when we find more resources. Consider bookmarking this page and come back often to see newly added courses. The course is created by Lazy Programmer Inc. and has currently 2513 students enrolled with a feedback score of 4.6 out of 5. It is listed as the best selling Udemy course on Artificial Intelligence.

BENGALURU: The humongous amount of digital data being generated, and companies' need to glean insights and make predictions from them have made skills in data visualisation, data science, and machine learning among the most valued for technology recruiters today. This is reflected in the number of working professionals signing up for specialised courses in these spaces. Candidates who complete the courses tend to get between 20% and 50% increase in salaries. Kashyap Dalal, chief business officer at online learning platform Simplilearn, says that big data and analytics courses were the big growth drivers in the past three years. While data science continues to remain popular, accounting for 30% of all learners, courses on visualisation tools and machine learning have become very attractive over the past six months, he said.

The 78-video playlist above comes from a course called Neural Networks for Machine Learning, taught by Geoffrey Hinton, a computer science professor at the University of Toronto. The videos were created for a larger course taught on Coursera, which gets re-offered on a fairly regularly basis. Neural Networks for Machine Learning will teach you about "artificial neural networks and how they're being used for machine learning, as applied to speech and object recognition, image segmentation, modeling language and human motion, etc." The courses emphasizes " both the basic algorithms and the practical tricks needed to get them to work well." It's geared for an intermediate level learner – comfortable with calculus and with experience programming (Python).