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Re: Opening a new chapter of my work in AI

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Post by Nition » Wed, Mar 22, 2017, 7:12 AM UTC

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #16

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…

Maybe open source crowdsourced data? e.g. If various people need thousands of examples of people's handwriting, someone makes an open-source repository and hopefully lots of people upload for the good of everyone.

Re: Opening a new chapter of my work in AI

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Post by skynode » Wed, Mar 22, 2017, 7:16 AM UTC

laughingman2 wrote: post #30

drakenot wrote: post #12

Is his Machine Learning course still relatively up to date? I was considering devoting some time to it, or a course like it soon.

If you are planning to take it, I would suggest a different approach which I have started. 1. Do Practical Deep Learning For Coders:- http://course.fast.ai/ To take a plunge directly into deep learning AI, this course has rave reviews. This course will allow you to do practical industry level stuff first, then learn theory behind it, rather than other way. Course description: >This 7-week course is designed for anyon…

I recommend this AI/ML learning method too. Practical first. Trust me, it'll keep you from getting bored/sleepy.

And for the practicals, I'll also suggest going over some of the hands-on examples at blog.algorithmia.com, especially if you have some Web dev experience.

Re: Opening a new chapter of my work in AI

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Post by dkarapetyan » Wed, Mar 22, 2017, 7:20 AM UTC

visarga wrote: post #22

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #16

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…

> AI is electricity then data is the coal/oil that drives it. The big technology players have a massive advantage in their ability to build and deploy tools that collect the data, and then bring it back to be turned into "electricity." Data is important now, but when we have solved vision, speech, text and robotics to a decent degree, data won't matter as much. The great thing about AI is that we can cheaply copy alr…

Was about to say the same thing. The incumbents are probably even at a disadvantage because as a young upstart you can always get in on the action by building a more efficient and simpler model and then querying the incumbents to bootstrap yourself.

Re: Opening a new chapter of my work in AI

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Post by Canada » Wed, Mar 22, 2017, 7:26 AM UTC

thewhitetulip wrote: post #25

jmcgough wrote: post #10

Sadly, the post has no meaningful information beyond that he's resigning.

It almost reads as an advert to how Baidu has transformed into an AI powerhouse.

Yes, and yet Baidu search is terrible.

Re: Opening a new chapter of my work in AI

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Post by AndrewKemendo » Wed, Mar 22, 2017, 7:33 AM UTC

Nition wrote: post #41

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #16

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…

Maybe open source crowdsourced data? e.g. If various people need thousands of examples of people's handwriting, someone makes an open-source repository and hopefully lots of people upload for the good of everyone.

So the big trick is to convince humanity that we all need to be the teachers of AI as an intentional practice. AGI will be our offspring so why shouldn't we all have a hand it teaching it and seeing the fruits of our labor?

Re: Opening a new chapter of my work in AI

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Mar 22, 2017, 7:34 AM UTC

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Re: Opening a new chapter of my work in AI

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Post by thom » Wed, Mar 22, 2017, 7:40 AM UTC

rspeer wrote: post #36

ww520 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or Nvdia, for their hardware prowess in AI.

Why would he work at a hardware company?

Why sell a box that does nothing when you can sell a box that does something?

Re: Opening a new chapter of my work in AI

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Post by dirtyaura » Wed, Mar 22, 2017, 7:49 AM UTC

thewhitetulip wrote: post #5

I didn't find a single reference other than this as to what he is going to do post resigning. >I will also explore new ways to support all of you in the global AI community, so that we can all work together to bring this AI-powered society to fruition. It is true that AI is the new electricity which will change practically everything in our lives and it is good to see that alliances like OpenAI are forming to democra…

It's similar sentiment that Jeremy Howard presented. It sounds that they both see AI such a big societal change that working on a single startup / company isn't enough for them.

Re: Opening a new chapter of my work in AI

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Post by irq11 » Wed, Mar 22, 2017, 8:14 AM UTC

chollida1 wrote: post #6

Wow, I'm amazed at Andrew's list of accomplishments. I mean any one of these would be a career capstone for most people - Stanford Professor - Founding lead of the Google Brain project - Author of one of the most famous and loved MOOC's - Head of AI for Baidu, built up the AI team in both China and the US. - Founder of Coursera And I see from wikipedia that he and I are roughly the same age :( Engineers are often see…

...and all that (excluding the professor part) since 2011! Boy, talk about working fast!

In case you can't tell, there's a great big sarcasm tag there. There is absolutely no way that the guy has contributed substantially to all of those things in less than six years.

Sometimes, people get a reputation for something, and then leverage that into a slingshot of career advancement. Good for him, but the people who are doing the actual work of developing this stuff can easily spend six years on a single problem, so it's helpful to maintain perspective.

Re: Opening a new chapter of my work in AI

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Post by iand » Wed, Mar 22, 2017, 8:23 AM UTC

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #16

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…

For an alternate view to the "data is oil" theme, see http://bokonads.com/data-is-fallout-not-oil/