Letters from Andrew Ng

Personal messages to the AI community

Personal Insights

Why Giving More Students A's Can Be a Good Thing: Harvard wants to award fewer A’s to counter grade inflation, but education should be about helping students succeed.

Harvard University just voted to limit the number of A grades given in undergraduate classes to about 20% of the class.

Personal Insights

AI Will Not Destroy the Job Market: Here's why fear of an AI “jobpocaypse” is overblown.

There will be no AI jobpocalypse.

Personal Insights

That Feeling Of Job Insecurity (And What You Can Do About It): In times of economic and technological uncertainty, build on things that tend to remain stable. Community and skills are likely to weather shifts in business and society.

I’ve been hearing from people at all levels of seniority about a feeling of job insecurity.

Personal Insights

Short of Time to Build With AI? Simplify Your Projects: Scale down your AI projects into something you can execute quickly. Then collect feedback from users to sharpen your ideas.

I’d like to share a tip for getting more practice building with AI — that is, either using AI building blocks to build applications or using AI coding assistance to create powerful applications quickly.

Personal Insights

Building a Better Future For All: Many people need help, and technology is the best way to help people at scale. Let’s get to work.

Happy Thanksgiving! In the United States, this is a week when many reflect on their blessings and give thanks.

Personal Insights

Building a Better Future For All: Many people need help, and technology is the best way to help people at scale. Let’s get to work.

Happy Thanksgiving! In the United States, this is a week when many reflect on their blessings and give thanks.

Personal Insights

Concrete Ideas Make Strong AI Startups: AI startups can move more efficiently and effectively with a concrete product idea than a vague market concept.

AI’s usefulness in a wide variety of applications creates many opportunities for entrepreneurship.

Personal Insights

Concrete Ideas Make Strong AI Startups: AI startups can move more efficiently and effectively with a concrete product idea than a vague market concept.

AI’s usefulness in a wide variety of applications creates many opportunities for entrepreneurship.

Personal Insights

Threats to Democracy and How AI Can Help: Democracy empowers each citizen to help decide who governs.

“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others,” said Winston Churchill.

Personal Insights

Threats to Democracy and How AI Can Help: Democracy empowers each citizen to help decide who governs.

“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others,” said Winston Churchill.

Personal Insights

Coding Agents Are Evolving From Novelties to Widely Useful Tools: Three research papers offer outstanding ways to use large language models to build coding agents that perform software development tasks automatically.

On Father’s Day last weekend, I sat with my daughter to help her practice solving arithmetic problems.

Personal Insights

Coding Agents Are Evolving From Novelties to Widely Useful Tools: Three research papers offer outstanding ways to use large language models to build coding agents that perform software development tasks automatically.

On Father’s Day last weekend, I sat with my daughter to help her practice solving arithmetic problems.

Personal Insights

AI On the Agenda at the World Economic Forum: The World Economic Forum at Davos felt like an AI conference, with big takeaways for business and regulation.

Last week, I attended the World Economic Forum, an annual meeting of leaders in government, business, and culture at Davos, Switzerland.

Personal Insights

AI On the Agenda at the World Economic Forum: The World Economic Forum at Davos felt like an AI conference, with big takeaways for business and regulation.

Last week, I attended the World Economic Forum, an annual meeting of leaders in government, business, and culture at Davos, Switzerland.

Personal Insights

What Will Change — And What Will Stay the Same: Change is hard to predict, so invest your time and energy in things that aren't likely to change.

AI is progressing faster than ever. This is thrilling, yet rapid change can be disorienting. In such times, it’s useful to follow Jeff Bezos’ advice to think about not only what is changing but also what will stay the same.

Letters from Andrew Ng

Why Giving More Students A's Can Be a Good Thing: Harvard wants to award fewer A’s to counter grade inflation, but education should be about helping students succeed.

AI Will Not Destroy the Job Market: Here's why fear of an AI “jobpocaypse” is overblown.

That Feeling Of Job Insecurity (And What You Can Do About It): In times of economic and technological uncertainty, build on things that tend to remain stable. Community and skills are likely to weather shifts in business and society.

Short of Time to Build With AI? Simplify Your Projects: Scale down your AI projects into something you can execute quickly. Then collect feedback from users to sharpen your ideas.

Building a Better Future For All: Many people need help, and technology is the best way to help people at scale. Let’s get to work.

Building a Better Future For All: Many people need help, and technology is the best way to help people at scale. Let’s get to work.

Concrete Ideas Make Strong AI Startups: AI startups can move more efficiently and effectively with a concrete product idea than a vague market concept.

Concrete Ideas Make Strong AI Startups: AI startups can move more efficiently and effectively with a concrete product idea than a vague market concept.

Threats to Democracy and How AI Can Help: Democracy empowers each citizen to help decide who governs.

Threats to Democracy and How AI Can Help: Democracy empowers each citizen to help decide who governs.

Coding Agents Are Evolving From Novelties to Widely Useful Tools: Three research papers offer outstanding ways to use large language models to build coding agents that perform software development tasks automatically.

Coding Agents Are Evolving From Novelties to Widely Useful Tools: Three research papers offer outstanding ways to use large language models to build coding agents that perform software development tasks automatically.

AI On the Agenda at the World Economic Forum: The World Economic Forum at Davos felt like an AI conference, with big takeaways for business and regulation.

AI On the Agenda at the World Economic Forum: The World Economic Forum at Davos felt like an AI conference, with big takeaways for business and regulation.

What Will Change — And What Will Stay the Same: Change is hard to predict, so invest your time and energy in things that aren't likely to change.

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