Skip to content

Technology Quotes by Andrew Ng

46 Technology quotes by Andrew Ng

All Technology quotes Andrew Ng’s page

Big companies with tons of data train huge neural networks that power everything from search to image recognition. Ng points out that we still don’t know the perfect algorithm, but approximating it can lift people out of repetitive tasks. He also sees AI as a tool that can make daily life brighter for many.

Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

The thing that really excites me today is building a new AI-powered society.

Image

AI is creating tremendous economic value today.

Image

When you go to Japan, there is such a talent shortage that the debate about AI taking jobs is almost non-existent. The…

Image

I've been to so many manufacturing plants. I've yet to walk into one where I did not think AI solutions wouldn't help.

Image

If a typical person can do a mental task with less than one second of thought, we can probably automate it using…

Image

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

Image

With the Google Brain project, we made the decision to build deep learning processes on top of Google's existing infrastructure.

Image

Beyond helping other people build AI systems with Deeplearning.ai, I also hope to build some AI systems myself!

Image

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

Image

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

Image

In terms of building consumer products, the U.S. and China are ahead of India. The interesting opportunity for India is whenever there…

Image

Even companies like Baidu and Google, which have amazing AI teams, cannot do all the work needed to get us to an…

Image

As leaders, it is incumbent on all of us to make sure we are building a world in which every individual has…

Image

One thing I've been doing at Baidu is running a workshop on the strategy of innovation. The idea is that innovation is…

Image

I just thought making machines intelligent was the coolest thing you could do. I had a summer internship in AI in high…

Image

I think the world will just be better if AI is helping us. It will reduce the cost of goods, giving us…

Image

It is difficult to think of a major industry that AI will not transform. This includes healthcare, education, transportation, retail, communications, and…

Image

A lot of the game of AI today is finding the appropriate business context to fit it in. I love technology. It…

Image

I am super optimistic about the near-term prospects of AI because every time there is a technological disruption, it gives us the…

Image

India has a large base of tech talent, and I hope that a lot of AI machine learning education online will allow…

Image

Most of the value of deep learning today is in narrow domains where you can get a lot of data. Here's one…

Image

The Chinese market is very different. One of the things that I believe is that the biggest, hottest tech trend in China…

Image

We can build a much brighter future where humans are relieved of menial work using AI capabilities.

Image

There's a very long tail of all sorts of creative products - beyond our core web search, image search and advertising businesses…

Image

We're making this analogy that AI is the new electricity. Electricity transformed industries: agriculture, transportation, communication, manufacturing.

Image

I think the next massive wave of value creation will be when you can get a manufacturing company or agriculture devices company…

Image

AI has been making tremendous progress in machine translation, self-driving cars, etc. Basically, all the progress I see is in specialised intelligence.…

Image

The two things I'm most excited about are self-driving cars and speech. Speech doesn't sound like that much, but it's one of…

Image

I think the first wave of deep learning progress was mainly big companies with a ton of data training very large neural…

Image

One of my relatives had been asking me on how he could break into AI. For him to learn AI - deep-learning,…

Image

The big AI dreams of making machines that could someday evolve to do intelligent things like humans could - I was turned…

Image

The way AI complements people's work, it actually creates a lot of new jobs, a lot of demand. For example, if a…

Image

If we can make computers more intelligent - and I want to be careful of AI hype - and understand the world…

Image

I will continue my work to shepherd in this important societal change... In addition to working on AI myself, I will also…

Image

Want to train a machine translation system? Train it on a gazillion pairs of sentences of parallel corpora, and that creates a…

Image

The biggest ethical challenge AI is facing is jobs. You have to reskill your workforce not just to create a wealthier society…

Image

Deep-learning will transform every single industry. Healthcare and transportation will be transformed by deep-learning. I want to live in an AI-powered society.…

Image

Deep learning is a very capital-intensive area, and it's rare to find a company with both the necessary resources and a company…

Image

I want an AI-powered society because I see so many ways that AI can make human life better. We can make so…

Image

I think that solving the job impact of AI will require significant private and public efforts. And I think that many people…

Image

Other authors on Technology

More by Andrew Ng

There's a very long tail of all sorts of creative products - beyond our core web search, image search and advertising businesses - that…

With human inspectors, it's difficult to get even the same person to make consistent judgments.

No one knows what the right algorithm is, but it gives us hope that if we can discover some crude approximation of whatever this…

I think the first wave of deep learning progress was mainly big companies with a ton of data training very large neural networks, right?…

Imagine if your success in life is determined only by your guts, your hard work, and your willpower, and not by the wealth of…

I joined Baidu in 2014 to work on AI. Since then, Baidu's AI group has grown to roughly 1,300 people, which includes the 300-person…

In English, there is one word for sister. In Chinese, there are two separate words, for elder and younger sister. This is actually a…

One of my philosophies of building companies is the importance of velocity.

If we can make computers more intelligent - and I want to be careful of AI hype - and understand the world and the…

In my own life, I found that whenever I wasn't sure what to do next, I would go and learn a lot, read a…

In Silicon Valley, there are a lot of startups using computer vision for agriculture or shopping - there are a lot for clothes shopping.…

We can build a much brighter future where humans are relieved of menial work using AI capabilities.

As leaders, it is incumbent on all of us to make sure we are building a world in which every individual has an opportunity…

Want to train a machine translation system? Train it on a gazillion pairs of sentences of parallel corpora, and that creates a lot of…

The Chinese market is very different. One of the things that I believe is that the biggest, hottest tech trend in China right now…