Comment on Google Brain cofounder says Big Tech companies are lying about the risks of AI wiping out humanity because they want to dominate the market

FMT99@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• ripe_banana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Imo, Andrew Ng is actually a cool guy. He started coursera and deeplearning.ai to teach ppl about machine/deep learning. Also, he does a lot of stuff at Stanford.

  I wouldn’t put him in the corporate shill camp.

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  • maniclucky@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I took several of his classes. At the very least he’s an excellent instructor.

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    • elliot_crane@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      He really is. He’s one of those rare instructors that can take the very complex and intricate topics and break them down into something that you can digest as a student, while still giving you room to learn and experiment yourself. In essence, an actual master at his craft.

      I also agree with the comment that he doesn’t come across as the corporate shill type, much more like a guy that just really loves ML/AI and wants to spread that knowledge.

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    • AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Same, I went from kind of understanding most of the concepts to grokking a lot of it pretty well. He’s super good at explaining things.

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  • 5BC2E7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There was a lot of controversy about him exploiting the people working for him and he publicly doubled down on admitting the need to overwork them.

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    • ripe_banana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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      This looks like it’s from the aifund thing he is a part of, but it seems like they took that part out. I have never worked for of those companies so idk 🤷‍♂️.

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