Andrew Ng is the Founder of DeepLearning.AI, Founder and CEO of Landing AI, Managing General Partner at AI Fund, Chairman and Co-Founder of Coursera, and an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University. As a pioneer both in machine learning and online education, Dr. Ng has changed countless lives through his work in AI, authoring or co-authoring over 200 research papers in machine learning, robotics, and related fields. He was also the founding lead of the Google Brain team, and Chief Scientist at Baidu, and through this work built the teams that led the AI transformation of two leading internet companies. He is also co-founder and Chairman of Coursera, which had started with his machine learning course. Dr. Ng now focuses his time primarily on his entrepreneurial ventures, looking for the best ways to accelerate responsible AI practices in the larger global economy.

Artificial intelligence is fueling enormous change in business, allowing for more accurate predictive analytics than ever before, so-called autonomous data-center systems and new services in areas like finance, customer relations and healthcare. Log in or subscribe to download Insider Pro's guide to AI in the Enterprise. AI can optimize business processes and IT operations, automating routine jobs and allowing staff to focus on high-value tasks. AI, though, may be at once the most transformative and least understood areas of technology today. AI is a blanket term for various algorithms, methodologies and technologies that, broadly speaking, allow software to accomplish tasks that historically were associated with human intelligence, such as responding to natural language queries, recognizing images and sounds, making decisions and predictions.