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This Fall quarter, Stanford University will be offering online for free

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the Machine Learning course that I teach.

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Machine Learning has a typical enrolment of 350 students in Stanford

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and this is one of the most popular courses offered by the Computer science department.

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Over 200'000 people have watched my Machine Learning lectures on YouTube.

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Based on this popularity, this year, we're doing something completely new:

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We're not just showing you videos, we're inviting you to sign up for

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actively participating and take this Stanford class.

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What is Machine Learning? You probably use it dozens of times a day,

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without even knowing it.

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Each time you do a web search on Google or Bing,

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that works so well because their machine learning software has figured out how to rank webpages.

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When Facebook or Apple's photo application recognizes your friends and your pictures,

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that's also machine learning.

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Each time you read your email and the spam filter saves you

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from having to wade through tons of spam,

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again, that's because your computer has learned to distinguish spam from non-spam email.

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So, that's machine learning.

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It's the science of getting computers to learn without being explicitly programmed.

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One of the research projects that I'm working on is getting robots to tidy the house.

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How do you go about doing that?

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Well, what you can do is have the robot watch you demonstrate the task, and learn from that.

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The robot can then watch what objects you pick up and where to put them,

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and try to do the same thing even when you aren't there.

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For me, one of the reasons I'm excited about this

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is the AI or artificial intelligence problem,

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building truly intelligent machines which can do just about anything that you or I can do.

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Many scientists think the best way to make progress on this

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is through learning algorithms called the "neural networks"

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which mimick how the human brain works

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and I'll teach about that too.

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In this class, you'll learn about machine learning and get to implement them yourself.

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This class will have homeworks and programming assignments,

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and if you successfully complete this class, you'll also get from me a signed Statement of Accomplishments

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stating how you did in the class and which you can put in your resumé.

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I hope you sign up on our web site and join us this Fall.