This week, in The Batch, Andrew Ng announced the launch of “AI Andrew,” an AI companion designed to reflect his communication style, values, and approach to mentoring. AI Andrew is available for conversations about AI, careers, and personal growth. Plus: 🛡️ U.S. Government Plans Pre-Release AI Model Testing 🎙️ OpenAI Launches Smarter Real-Time Voice Models 🌏 China Blocks Meta’s Acquisition of AI Agent Startup Manus 🎗️ Google’s AI Breast Cancer Detector Shows Promise in Real-World NHS Tests Read The Batch: hubs.la/Q04h093v0

@DeepLearningAI @AndrewYNg is an AI God. Looking forward to asking 'AI Andrew' what the meaning of life is.

@DeepLearningAI The useful test for AI companions is whether they preserve judgment, not just tone. Mentorship is context, challenge and timing, not only fluent answers.

@DeepLearningAI GPT-Realtime-2 handles audio and reasoning end-to-end, but I would not deploy it at 2.33s latency. Production voice agents need under 500ms.

@DeepLearningAI Governments pushing pre-release testing shows how seriously frontier AI risk management is now being treated at the policy level.

@DeepLearningAI making an AI copy of yourself feels like the ultimate tech founder flex but also lowkey the loneliest thing ever

@DeepLearningAI so he made a clone of himself for pep talks but does it have his actual opinions or sanitized mentor mode

@DeepLearningAI copying your own personality into an ai avatar to scale mentorship is the ultimate operator move for education.

@DeepLearningAI an ai version of yourself sounds useful until it starts giving better advice than you

@DeepLearningAI this is so weirdly specific that it circles back to being fascinating does it have opinions on prod vs infra yet?

@DeepLearningAI bruh did he really just make a digital version of himself for career advice ngl id ask it how to get into AI tho

@DeepLearningAI so an ai clone of a guy whose whole thing is teaching people to build ai clones not sure if meta or recursion