Andrew Ng Quotes

United States, Scientist
1976

Andrew Yan-Tak Ng is a Chinese English computer scientist, executive, investor, and entrepreneur. Ng co-founded and led Google Brain and was a former VP & Chief Scientist at Baidu, building the company's Artificial Intelligence Group into several thousand people. He is an adjunct professor (formerly associate professor and Director of the AI Lab) at Stanford University. Ng is also an early pioneer in online learning - which led to the co-founding of Coursera and deeplearning.ai. He launched and heads AI Fund, a $175 million investment fund to back artificial intelligence startups.

Also known as Executive Director, Inventor, Entrepreneur

There's a very long tail of all sorts of creative products - beyond our core web search, image search and advertising businesses - that are powered by deep learning.

Andrew Ng
- Learning
- Search
- Products
I believe that the ability to innovate and to be creative are teachable processes. There are ways by which people can systematically innovate or systematically become creative.

Andrew Ng

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

Andrew Ng
- Human
- Make
- Judgments
Job displacement is so huge, I'm tempted to not talk about anything other than that.

Andrew Ng
- Job
- Talk
- Displacement
If a typical person can do a mental task with less than one second of thought, we can probably automate it using AI either now or in the near future.

Andrew Ng
- Person
- Task
- Automate
The thing that really excites me today is building a new AI-powered society.

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- Society
- Building
- Excites
Education is not about thinning the herd. Education is about helping every student succeed.

Andrew Ng
Our education system has succeeded so far in teaching generations to do different routine tasks. So when tractors displaced farming labor, we taught the next generation to work in factories. But what we've never really been good at is teaching a huge number of people to do non-routine creative work.

Andrew Ng

I see a minimum living wage as a long-term solution, but I'm not sure that's my favorite. I think society benefits if all the human race is empowered and aspiring to do great things. Giving people the skill sets to do great things will take work.

Andrew Ng
- Society
- Solution
- Wage
The most trusted way to keep moving up that value chain is to keep investing in individuals - to help them grow in knowledge and skills. Education is hard. It takes individuals to do the hard work.

Andrew Ng
- Education
- Grow
- Investing
If you want to publish data, you should do it to share knowledge.

Andrew Ng
- Knowledge
- Share
- Publish