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.
Interpretation
Andrew Ng believes that AI can enhance efficiency and productivity in manufacturing plants.
In this quote, Andrew Ng expresses his conviction that artificial intelligence has the potential to improve operations in manufacturing environments. He highlights his experience visiting numerous plants and consistently observing opportunities for AI to streamline processes, reduce costs, and enhance overall performance. This suggests a strong belief in the transformative power of technology in traditional industries.
In practice
In a business presentation discussing the future of manufacturing and technology.
AI has been making tremendous progress in machine translation, self-driving cars, etc. Basically, all the progress I see is in specialised intelligence. It might be hundreds or thousands of years or, if there is an unexpected breakthrough, decades.
It seemed really amazing that you could write a few lines of code and have it learn to do interesting things.
Most of the value of deep learning today is in narrow domains where you can get a lot of data. Here's one example of something it cannot do: have a meaningful conversation.
Imagine if we can just talk to our computers and have it understand, 'Please schedule a meeting with Bob for next week.' Or if each child could have a personalized tutor. Or if self-driving cars could save all of us hours of driving.
A single neuron in the brain is an incredibly complex machine that even today we don't understand. A single 'neuron' in a neural network is an incredibly simple mathematical function that captures a minuscule fraction of the complexity of a biological neuron.
None of us today know how to get computers to learn with the speed and flexibility of a child.
By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality.
To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.
Virality, at its core, is asking someone to spend their social capital recommending or linking or posting about you for free.
What can we do to create shared prosperity? The answer is not to try to slow down technology. Instead of racing against the machine, we need to learn to race with the machine.
You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.
Since the rise of Homo sapiens, human beings have been the smartest minds around. But very shortly - on a historical scale, that is - we can expect technology to break the upper bound on intelligence that has held for the last few tens of thousands of years.
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