Was UT Austin's Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Program worth it?

[@AndrewCheetah]

Great video. I am thinking of enrolling soon and found this helpful.

[@surendrakoritala6544]

Do they give admissions to Non-CS background with 12+ years of experiences in IT? I want to apply, but i wanted to know if i have to take pre-requisites before applying to the program. How is the 1:1 interactions with professors and teaching assistants?

[@WesJH]

I have no idea on admission standards. They're pretty lax for this program, from what I understand though. The issue is whether or not you'd be able to dedicate the time to pass the classes with a 70%. I think it's just about the time to do all the work. The Saturday morning classes are 2-3 hours, and the professors were awesome. Took as much time as needed to answer questions and carefully walk through the lessons. I did find that some didn't do the work through the week, so that unfortunately wasted everyone's time during class when they would ask questions that were taught through the week. As for 1:1 interactions, those were done either through the forums or direct messaging. I never asked for 1:1 zooms, so not sure if those are available.

[@BubacarrJammeh-px9fl]

Great Video. Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to moving from NYC to Austin TX 2025. I am interested in this program. Thanks for the info

[@Jetter638]

What is the Wes cooking?!?...couldn't resist with the eyebrow. BTW...Go DAWGS. I was hoping that Georgia might have a chance to beat Texas 3 times in one season but with our starting QB out for the season it seems GA is not going to make it.

[@WesJH]

Haha idk the back up looked solid. Would be awesome to see Dawgz/Horns III but don’t like it’s in ATL again. Got the peach bowl back there too

[@Jetter638]

@@WesJH LOL...I'm not holding my breath for III at this time. BTW, thanks for creating your video. I'm thinking about the program but not sure if it's right for me. It seems like it's really all Data Science and not sure that looking for predictive trends in data is going to inspire me. I'm a fullstack Web developer. And even if I were inspired by it would it have enough technical depth to allow me to be a Data Scientist? Are you doing Data Science work now? Any thoughts. Cheers.

[@WesJH]

@ yea it’s very intro level data science. You’d need some other program for that or read through a number of data science books to expand your knowledge. There’s a list like Essential Math for AI and Data Science, and a laundry list of other OReilly/Packt books.

[@Jetter638]

@@WesJH thx...I'll check those out. Cheers.