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Andrew Ng: Artificial Intelligence is the New Electricity
Andrew Ng speaks at the Stanford MSx Future Forum about how AI is transforming industry after industry, comparing its impact to electricity. The talk also touches on evil-AI worries, jobs and basic income.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as a broad, practical view of AI's near-term impact from a leading practitioner, with his argument that worrying about evil AI is premature.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Stanford Graduate School of Business
- Topic
- ai and industry
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 6
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2017–2019
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I really enjoyed this Andrew Ng talk: [VIDEO] Some excerpts: Anti-Evil AI drives funding: [VIDEO] Radiologist will be impacted: [VIDEO] Against Basic Income: [VIDEO] Trolley Problem (who dies): [VIDEO]
melling on Hacker News · 2017-03
In Opening a new chapter of my work in AI> It is hard for me to empathize with Musk’s fixation on evil super-intelligent AGI killer robots in a very distant future. This reminded me of a talk by Andrew Ng I watched recently [1]: "Worrying about evil AI robots today is a little bit …
abhgh on Hacker News · 2017-07
In Thoughts on OpenAI, reinforcement learning, and killer robots
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