Course · ~6.5 hours

Making Friends with Machine Learning (full course)

Cassie Kozyrkov · YouTube Free Beginner

Making Friends with Machine Learning (full course)

Google's former Chief Decision Scientist built this specifically for non-technical people who make decisions about AI, so it stays conceptual rather than mathematical. It walks through the real life of an AI project, including why moving from prototype to production is where most efforts stumble. That is precisely the gap between a demo and a shipped product that this question warns you about.

  • Understand the full life of an AI project, not just the shiny prototype
  • Prototype to production is the hard part where many projects die
  • Decision quality, not technical detail, is what non-technical founders own
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The question it answers

  1. As a non-technical founder, how do I evaluate a tech-heavy trend like AI without getting fooled by hype?

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