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Just as electricity transformed many industries roughly 100 years ago, AI will also now change nearly every major industry This is an underrated point, and something I don't think most people outside of the high level Machine Learning/AI world take seriously. It's also one of the biggest challenges for the industry going forward because of natural monopolies. I say that because if AI is electricity then data is the c…
I also saw a FB thread that seemed to suggest this may have been a surprise to some of his colleagues. Take that with a grain of salt though - I don't know the people on the thread and they were vague. I just got the sense it was news to them.
Baidu is now one of the few companies with world-class expertise in every major AI area: speech, NLP, computer vision, machine learning, knowledge graph. Just idly, I find it interesting that practical applications of this technology seem to often funnel down to just this subset. There's a lot of room to apply machine learning to solve actual problems that many people have, but often its unclear that doing so would e…
If Deep Learning can approximate any function, does that mean that in some cases it ends up approximating the output of traditional approaches?
I haven't seen any comment or quotes yet from Baidu (please correct me if I'm wring!). Amicable high profile departures like this are almost always coordinated between the person leaving and the company, with joint statements. Not saying it's not amicable, but I do find that, and the fact he's not sharing his next move, a little odd. I also saw a FB thread that seemed to suggest this may have been a surprise to some…
Just as electricity transformed many industries roughly 100 years ago, AI will also now change nearly every major industry This is an underrated point, and something I don't think most people outside of the high level Machine Learning/AI world take seriously. It's also one of the biggest challenges for the industry going forward because of natural monopolies. I say that because if AI is electricity then data is the c…
Baidu is now one of the few companies with world-class expertise in every major AI area: speech, NLP, computer vision, machine learning, knowledge graph. Just idly, I find it interesting that practical applications of this technology seem to often funnel down to just this subset. There's a lot of room to apply machine learning to solve actual problems that many people have, but often its unclear that doing so would e…
Just as electricity transformed many industries roughly 100 years ago, AI will also now change nearly every major industry This is an underrated point, and something I don't think most people outside of the high level Machine Learning/AI world take seriously. It's also one of the biggest challenges for the industry going forward because of natural monopolies. I say that because if AI is electricity then data is the c…
Interesting, this is the same argument made by social theorist Evengy Morozov: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/04/data-p...
"The AI on the horizon looks more like Amazon Web Services — ... This common utility will serve you as much IQ as you want but no more than you need. You’ll simply plug into the grid and get AI as if it was electricity. It will enliven objects, much as electricity did more than a century past."
It's not just AI. Here's Jeff Bezos talking about the internet as electrification
https://www.ted.com/talks/jeff_bezos_on_the_next_web_innovat...
seems a rather common metaphor for a sweeping wave of technological change.
Is his Machine Learning course still relatively up to date? I was considering devoting some time to it, or a course like it soon.