If he had called it AICOIN he could have raised much more.
Andrew Ng is raising a $150M AI Fund
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#22Aside: how do you pronounce his surname?
He spent a couple of years in Singapore, so I'm going by the pronunciation there. (May be different in different regions, and I'm not sure about his preferred pronunciation now). It would do something like this:
Start with the word "urn". Now don't drag it out, make it short. Make the "n" and "ng" sound at the end (urng). Now take out the "r" sound (uhng).
It seems like Americans do tend to pronounce it "ehng" instead.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Looks like Data sets are going to be the moat of AI companies.
open/free data sources are likely to become very important. AI hasn't yet been super-important in the open data world, but I'd expect it to gain a lot of prominence as time goes by.
Yep, open data and models with state-of-the-art performance are popping up more and more. I expect companies to appear which will sell data and models as a service, too.
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#24If he had called it AICOIN he could have raised much more.
I chuckled at the Un-settling reality of Alt-Coins and greed.
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#25Re: Andrew Ng is raising a $150M AI Fund
#26Aside: how do you pronounce his surname?
He spent a couple of years in Singapore, so I'm going by the pronunciation there. (May be different in different regions, and I'm not sure about his preferred pronunciation now). It would do something like this: Start with the word "urn". Now don't drag it out, make it short. Make the "n" and "ng" sound at the end (urng). Now take out the "r" sound (uhng). It seems like Americans do tend to pronounce it "ehng" instea…
Your comment appears to be correct: https://www.quora.com/How-does-Andrew-Ng-prefer-his-name-to-...
Re: Andrew Ng is raising a $150M AI Fund
#27Aside: how do you pronounce his surname?
He spent a couple of years in Singapore, so I'm going by the pronunciation there. (May be different in different regions, and I'm not sure about his preferred pronunciation now). It would do something like this: Start with the word "urn". Now don't drag it out, make it short. Make the "n" and "ng" sound at the end (urng). Now take out the "r" sound (uhng). It seems like Americans do tend to pronounce it "ehng" instea…
In the video it sounds like "ooge". Similar to "rouge" or "stooge" but cropped short.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
People say that but I don't see many ML companies being acquired or funded because of their data sets.
Big companies have valuable datasets, small companies have talent. It makes sense for big companies to acquire talent, not datasets.
Increasingly, small companies have really novel and valuable data sets.
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#30I'm curious to the opinions of people here on companies collecting data to build data sets vs. privacy.
Personal privacy is a paper tiger, as Facebook and others have proven again and again. You only need to look at the consequence-free landscape of privacy breaches to understand that people have no meaningful right to avoid direct marketing and spillage of their contact info.
On the other hand, confidential information of corporations is pretty well guarded, and confidential contract terms, costs, pricing, and other information that doesn't get shared among peer companies or competitors is what will propel AI into the economic stratosphere. Finding ways to get confidential data into learning systems and provide actionable feedback is the killer app.