Makes sense. As one of the most public personas in AI, he probably gets pitched frequently by AI startups. Might as well let someone else bankroll his dealflow while collecting 2% annual management fees and participate in the upside via carry a decade later.
Andrew Ng is raising a $150M AI Fund
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#72one of the best ways to monetize education is with student investments instead of student payments. YC is doing this with startup education.
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#73Go, Andrew, go!!!
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I don't think you're up to speed with the latest in ML approaches. You have to be narrow before you can be broad, drawing cross correlations between great narrow inference towards more generalized problem sets.
I would be grateful if you could point me toward some relevant resources.
This is one of the better examples I've seen recently that I really love:
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#75If he had called it AICOIN he could have raised much more.
Synapse AI is an "AI Coin" you might be interested in.
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#76If he had called it AICOIN he could have raised much more.
AR-AICOIN
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Could you describe at a high level(or whatever level you'd like,) what goes into, or more specifically, what are the components of a crawler that makes it superior for these purposes?
Sure; Doesn't die -- HTML being a specification in name only, there are a lot of really crazy web pages out there that render on browsers but are pathological edge cases. Does a good job of distinguishing 'good' links from 'bad' links on a page. -- Lots of pages have links that should not be followed, some are easy they are rendered in the same color as the background (SEO black hat link juice) and others refer to cr…
Cool, thanks.
When you say google and microsoft have this advantage in creating data sets, is it just the massive size of the web indices they are able to compile or do they use their crawlers in specific ways for compiling structured data that would be more useful for certain ML projects than a general web index?
Are there any tweaks you'd make to a crawler if you sent it out with the purpose of creating a dataset for a specific AI / ML project, rather than a general purpose web index?
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#78>Ng told me that his personal goal is to help bring about an AI-powered society.
Anyone have links to interviews or information on Ng's vision? I'd love to hear the details.
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Regardless of our individual opinions, probably far more than enough of the general public does not care about or know about securing their online privacy than is needed for an invasive AI startup to get what they need to make a valuable product.
Do you, or anyone else, have any thoughts as to why Americans have, at least stereotypically, a more laissez faire attitude to personal privacy compared to those in Europe? Just the somewhat recent history of secret police in Europe? The American founders were very pro-privacy weren't they?
I couldn't say. I don't know enough about European data sharing habits to really draw a comparison. I would remind you though as Apple proved during the San Bernadino iPhone showdown, the U.S. government is heavily restrained by law from just storming in and taking company data that they claim is necessary for the interests of national security.