Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or Nvdia, for their hardware prowess in AI.
Why would he work at a hardware company?
they're doing a massive push in self driving ai.
sell the ai & the chips. seems good
Opening a new chapter of my work in AI
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Re: Opening a new chapter of my work in AI
#62I 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…
From https://www.techinasia.com/ai-chief-scientist-andrew-ng-resi...
“Andrew joined Baidu because of our shared pursuit for the future of AI,” stated Baidu on its official Weibo account, China’s answer to Twitter. “We still have this goal, which is to push forward the development of AI and make life in the future more beautiful.”
“Despite our regrets, we send our thanks and blessings! We wish Andrew even greater success in the future, and hope all goes well!”
Re: Opening a new chapter of my work in AI
#63Big blow for Baidu. Wonder if he'll join Google again. They are the foremost in AI.
He seems like a give back to the community guy, so I would expect either openAI, his wife's company or a new AI non profit
Re: Opening a new chapter of my work in AI
#64I wonder if Baidu hiring Qi Lu as COO in January has anything to do with it?
He has been called "a leading authority in the field of artificial intelligence".
OTOH Ng specifically thanked Lu Qi on twitter.
Oh well, I guess eventually we'll know more.
Re: Opening a new chapter of my work in AI
#65Andrew left just after Qi Lu was hired as COO in Baidu. Hopefully, Qi Lu can bring some shining product out of those great techniques, encouraging the AI team left behind.
Was it less than a year? A "China suprise" syndrome I guess
Re: Opening a new chapter of my work in AI
#66Surprising, Andrew Ng leaves Baidu so fast.
Frankly, I wonder why Dr Ng stayed at Baidu so long.
Without question, Baidu's dominance over search plays two very painful roles: 1) they're the cutting edge of China's online civilian spy apparatus, and 2) they're the gatekeeper for news and dissemination of gov't propaganda. If you search the web or visit links sponsored by Baidu, either you will find what the government wants you to find or you will be identified as an outlier, and at best, labeled as a potential threat and tracked. It's impossible to imagine that Baidu does not place the names of web denizens matching certain profiles on threat databases thus altering the trajectory of their lives accordingly (and invisibly).
Personally, I can't imagine anyone of conscience working long for an employer so committed to diminish the freedoms of thought and speech. I applaud Dr Ng for his departure.
Re: Opening a new chapter of my work in AI
#67Misleading title, because there is nothing about his "new chapter".
Correct title could have been "Closing the current chapter...".
Re: Opening a new chapter of my work in AI
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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…
The distinction should be made between training data and [actionable] data. In the former case we are taking data, labeling it, then using it to build our nets and models. You are correct to an extent that it's a usable model once trained and that data is less important. However, equally if not more important is the data that is being put into the net to come out as a result/action. Arguably this data comes through t…
If you don't have data to "put into the net" then you don't have a problem that you want to solve.
Re: Opening a new chapter of my work in AI
#69Wow, 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…
I don't mean to put down Andrew's achievements, but once you have a dense enough (high-impact) network, these things appear to happen on their own.
Also note: Andrew's wife is the founder of Drive.ai (and the other two founders are his students).
Re: Opening a new chapter of my work in AI
#70Wow, 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…
Amazing guy, I must say! Like Nicola Tesla ... it's no coincidence he says AI is the new electricity.
Tesla was considered a kook in his days - he definitely wasn't mainstream.