Data is eating the world so Andrew Ng wants to make sure we radically improve its quality. "Data is food for AI," says Ng, and he is launching a campaign to shift the focus of AI practitioners from model/algorithm development to the quality of the data they use to train the models. Landing AI, the startup Ng founded to bring AI to traditional industries, today announced a competition to get the best performance out of a fixed model by improving the quality of the data. The top three winners will be invited to a private roundtable event with Andrew Ng to share ideas and explore how to grow the data-centric movement. In addition, DeepLearning.AI, an education startup Ng also founded, is launching an online course to teach his data-centric approach to a worldwide audience on Coursera (which Ng co-founded in 2012).

In a new format, DeepLearning.AI and Landing.AI collaborated to announce -- the Data-Centric AI Competition whereby participants are asked to improve a dataset given a fixed model. Andrew Ng invited participants to be a part of this unique competition. Starting from June 17, contestants can submit their altered dataset for evaluation latest by September 4 2021 – the birth date of John McCarthy, who coined the term artificial intelligence – by 6 PM PT (06:30 AM IST). The top three winners from each of the two categories (Best Performance Overall and Most Innovative) will be invited to a private event with Andrew Ng to share ideas about how to grow the data-centric movement. They will be highlighted in The Batch and other DeepLearning.AI and Landing AI channels.

Data is eating the world so Andrew Ng wants to make sure we radically improve its quality. "Data is food for AI," says Ng, and he is launching a campaign to shift the focus of AI practitioners from model/algorithm development to the quality of the data they use to train the models. Landing AI, the startup Ng founded to bring AI to traditional industries, today announced a competition to get the best performance out of a fixed model by improving the quality of the data. The top three winners will be invited to a private roundtable event with Andrew Ng to share ideas and explore how to grow the data-centric movement. In addition, DeepLearning.AI, an education startup Ng also founded, is launching an online course to teach his data-centric approach to a worldwide audience on Coursera (which Ng co-founded in 2012).

Andrew Ng, a computer scientist who led Google's AI division, Google Brain, and formerly served as vice president and chief scientist at Baidu, is a veritable celebrity in the artificial intelligence (AI) industry. After leaving Baidu, he debuted an online curriculum of classes centered around machine learning -- Deeplearning.ai Ng was the keynote speaker at the AI Frontiers Conference in November 2017, and this year unveiled the AI Fund, a $175 million incubator that backs small teams of experts looking to solve key problems using machine learning. Oh, and he's also chairman of AI cognitive behavioral therapy startup Woebot; sits on the board of driverless car company Drive.ai; Yet somehow, he found time to put together a new online training course -- "AI for Everyone" -- that seeks to demystify AI for business executives.