My personal journey of learning about AI and ML started a couple of years back. That was the time when, almost with unfailing regularity, I would be be called into our conference room to meet a hot new ed-tech who had a AI driven product to offer. Phrases like AI, ML, Deep Learning etc would be thrown at us and I would nod sagely with little understanding. Suffering from a uncomfortable fear of being left behind, I enrolled into Andrew Ng's iconic Machine Learning program on Coursera. The experience was thrilling but frustrating too. Andrew would keep things simple, at his level, but I came dangerously close to revisiting the nightmares of very tortuous math taught during engineering.
ML today has become far more accessible and easier to learn. I am convinced that data science is not the preserve of the Phds from Stanford alone. There are many aspects of this technology which are hugely useful to managers and leaders on a daily basis. I also believe that there is great value for CXOs to get their hands dirty and solve problems with these new age tools. An experiment conducted in our organization where we put a diverse set of people (from a history honours fresher to mathwiz-engr-mba CXOs) revealed to me how one event could change people's self belief and perspective so beautifully. It is perhaps like that first experience of a bungee jump, the first half-marathon or swim, or the may be your first date ! Till it's done, one doesn't believe it's possible.
In this program, you will be treated like a programmer on the first day of your job. While you will simultaneously feel the frustration of learning, you will also savour the thrill of solving some problems, all on your own. You will write code to detect images, analyze natural language, build a voice bot, solve machine learning problems to predict results in real world examples. It doesn't matter if you have never written a line of code before, we will ensure that you get past all the hurdes. Our aim will be to demystify ML at an elemental level, and start imagining solutions for your business with a completely new perspective.
Hope to see you in the program !
Sujit