Visionary:Andrew Ng
Andrew Ng
Biography
Co-founder of Coursera, former Google Brain lead, AI educator and entrepreneur.
Category
AI Researcher
Notable Quotes
On Creative Destruction in AI Era
"AI is the new electricity. It will transform every industry."
—Andrew Ng, Stanford MSx Future Forum (2017), January 25, 2017, Stanford University
On AI Governance and Regulation
"The biggest problem with AI isn't that it will take over, but that we won't use it enough to solve important problems."
—Andrew Ng, Fortune Brainstorm AI (2023), December 5, 2023, San Francisco
On Productivity Paradox in Digital Age
"Data-centric AI is more important than model-centric AI for most real-world applications."
—Andrew Ng, DeepLearning.AI Blog (2021), March 24, 2021 Link
On Labor Market Disruption from Automation
"Worrying about killer robots today is like worrying about overpopulation on Mars."
—Andrew Ng, The Batch Newsletter (2019), November 13, 2019
On Human Capital in Age of AI
"Online education will make a quality education affordable and accessible to every person on the planet."
—Andrew Ng, TED Talk (2023), April 18, 2023