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Re: Opening a new chapter of my work in AI

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Post by manojlds »

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…

I didn't know he was a founder of Coursera. I thought he mentioned Coursera because of the MOOC

Re: Opening a new chapter of my work in AI

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Post by a_d »

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 is good to see that alliances like OpenAI are forming to democratize the knowledge...

Very true! I hope he joins OpenAI and helps achieve their mission [1]. It would be a huge boost to their efforts.

[1] https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai/

Re: Opening a new chapter of my work in AI

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Post by shadowmint » 

    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 end up with results that are significantly better than traditional approaches; or how to achieve those results, tangibly.

I'm sure we haven't heard the last of Andrew Ng; there are a lot of people who want those sorts of skills.

Re: Opening a new chapter of my work in AI

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Post by AndrewKemendo »

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 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." If we aren't careful they will be the only groups who can make progress and show actual real world ML driven capabilities - making the barriers to entry even higher.

If you just look at the computer vision space, to do really good Machine Vision you need a LOT of novel image data and the primary platforms creating image content are largely owned by the top 5 players in the form of collection (smartphones) and warehousing (cloud servers).

I'm not sure if there are solutions here that make it possible for a lot of companies to do really well - everyone will just be bought up or out competed by the bigs once the big ones notice a threat on the horizon.

Re: Opening a new chapter of my work in AI

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Post by roque »

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.

Yes. It may not cover some of the most recent advances (e.g. deep learning) but it lays the foundations required to understand them. Besides, it is really really accessible. And fun. I enjoyed taking the class.

Re: Opening a new chapter of my work in AI

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Post by visarga »

manojlds wrote: post #13
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…

I didn't know he was a founder of Coursera. I thought he mentioned Coursera because of the MOOC

After making his first video course, he teamed up with Daphne Koller and made Coursera as a platform for courses.
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