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Andrew Yan-Tak Ng Quotes

born 1976 United States

Andrew Yan-Tak Ng (Chinese: 吳恩達; born April 18, 1976) is a British-American computer scientist and technology entrepreneur focusing on machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). Ng was a cofounder and head of Google Brain and was the former Chief Scientist at Baidu, building the company's Artificial Intelligence Group into a team of several thousand people.

United States
Computer scientists

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“Education is not about thinning the herd. Education is about helping every student succeed.”

“Despite all the hype and excitement about AI, it’s still extremely limited today relative to what human intelligence is.”

“If you want to publish data, you should do it to share knowledge.”

“It seemed really amazing that you could write a few lines of code and have it learn to do interesting things.”

Fearing a rise of killer robots is like worrying about overpopulation on Mars.”

“If you show a poetry professor your shiny new multiple choice teaching technology, he will invite you to exit his office.”

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

“A lot of the game of AI today is finding the appropriate business context to fit it in. I love technology. It opens up lots of opportunities. But in the end, technology needs to be contextualized and fit into a business use case.”

“A lot of the progress in machine learning – and this is an unpopular opinion in academia – is driven by an increase in both computing power and data. An analogy is to building a space rocket: You need a huge rocket engine, and you need a lot of fuel.”

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Andrew Yan-Tak Ng (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.