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Dec 2024
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841: Andrew Ng on AI Vision, Agents and ...

Jon Krohn
About this episode

In this special episode recorded live at ScaleUp:AI in New York, Jon Krohn speaks to Andrew Ng in response to his conference talk on smart agentic AI workflows. Jon follows up with Andrew about smart agentic workflows and when to use them, how businesses should direct their efforts in investing in AI, and the new ways that AI tools can process visual and unstructured data.


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In this episode you will learn:

  • (06:13) How to weigh up cost and effectiveness in new AI workflows
  • (12:08) The crucial elements for building effective vision AI applications
  • (15:34) How large vision models might transform global industries
  • (18:40) How to mitigate risk in people not verifying accuracy in answers generated by agents


Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/841

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