Coursera, one of the largest online education platforms, announced a specialisation on Deep learning, one of the hottest emerging fields in artificial intelligence (AI). Created by Coursera’s co-founder and leading AI expert Andrew Ng, this certificate programme will enable anyone with basic programming skills to explore the frontiers of AI. This is an extension to Andrew's landmark “Machine learning” course which introduced nearly two-million learners around the world to cutting-edge topics in data science, computer science, and AI.
Through five interconnected courses, learners will be able develop a profound knowledge of the key AI algorithms, mastering deep learning from its foundations (neural networks) to its industry applications like computer vision, natural language processing, speech recognition etc.
According to Andrew Ng, the co-founder of Coursera and former chief scientist at Baidu, “AI is the new electricity. Just as electricity transformed every major industry starting about 100 years ago, AI is now poised to do the same. In India in the next few years, companies of all sizes and across all industries will realise that they too can, and must, be part of this AI-powered future.”
The specialisation is appropriate for anyone with basic Python skills, a strong mathematics background, and some introductory-level machine learning experience. The topics covered will be relevant for aspiring as well as practicing data scientists, machine learning engineers, data engineers, software developers, and learners coming from quantitative fields such as finance, engineering and healthcare. At the end of the specialisation, learners will practice applying deep learning on applications in healthcare, visual object recognition, music generation, and language understanding. To enroll, log on to https://www.coursera.org/specializations/deep-learning.