Andrew Ng and the Quest for the New AI
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Re: Andrew Ng and the Quest for the New AI
#2There is a very quick reference to the person who inspired him, Jeff Hawkins, whose book is worth a read:
http://www.amazon.com/On-Intelligence-Jeff-Hawkins/dp/080507...
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Re: Andrew Ng and the Quest for the New AI
#3There is a very quick reference to the person who inspired him, Jeff Hawkins, whose book is worth a read: http://www.amazon.com/On-Intelligence-Jeff-Hawkins/dp/080507... Edit: update link
Link does not load CSS for me, but this does:
http://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-Jeff-Hawkins/dp/B000GQLCV...
Re: Andrew Ng and the Quest for the New AI
#4I've said this before, but deep learning is terribly powerful precisely because you don't have to spend lots of time doing feature engineering. Multi layer networks that are trained in semi-supervised, unsupervised and supervised fashions all can now produce networks that meet or beat the state of the art hand created models for speech, handwriting recognition, ocr, and object recognition. We are only just beginning to see what is possible with these sorts of techniques. I predict within a few years time we will see a huge renaissance in AI research and Neural Network research specifically as these techniques are applied more broadly in industry. My startup is building some cool stuff around this technology, and I know there are hundreds like me out there. This is going to be a fun ride.
Re: Andrew Ng and the Quest for the New AI
#5OT: His online Machine Learning class last year was great. He is the best professor I've ever had, and explains things so clearly that you understand them the first time. You are lucky if you ever get to work or study under him.
Re: Andrew Ng and the Quest for the New AI
#6I thought the man behind the Google Brain was Ray Kurzweil (http://www.wired.com/business/2013/04/kurzweil-google-ai/).
Re: Andrew Ng and the Quest for the New AI
#7OT: His online Machine Learning class last year was great. He is the best professor I've ever had, and explains things so clearly that you understand them the first time. You are lucky if you ever get to work or study under him.
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Re: Andrew Ng and the Quest for the New AI
#8OT: His online Machine Learning class last year was great. He is the best professor I've ever had, and explains things so clearly that you understand them the first time. You are lucky if you ever get to work or study under him.
That's awesome to hear! I'm taking the Coursera class now, and it's been great so far. It just started a couple weeks ago, so it definitely isn't too late to join!
https://www.coursera.org/course/ml
Re: Andrew Ng and the Quest for the New AI
#9I thought the man behind the Google Brain was Ray Kurzweil ( http://www.wired.com/business/2013/04/kurzweil-google-ai/ ).
Kurzweil is a hack. (Source: I've an Msc in Robotics and read all his books)