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.
Software is eating the world, but AI is going to eat software.
Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the Web like deer on a freeway.
Human language is the new UI layer, bots are like new applications, and digital assistants are meta apps. Intelligence is infused into all of your interactions.
It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.
If you and your skills are a complement to the computer, your wage and labor market prospects are likely to be cheery. If your skills do not complement the computer, you may want to address that mismatch. Ever more people are starting to fall on one side of the divide or the other. That's why 'average is over.'
Our job as the game creators or developers - the programmers, artists, and whatnot - is that we have to kind of put ourselves in the user's shoes. We try to see what they're seeing, and then make it, and support what we think they might think.
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