Andrew Ng on artificial intelligence and startup culture from Beijing to Silicon Valley

Sinica Podcast

Kaiser Kuo

Currentaffairs, Business, News, China Politics, Shenzhen, Chinese, Chongqing, China News, Politics, China, Culture, Sichuan, Hangzhou, Beijing, International Relations, China Economy, Chengdu, Film, Shanghai, Guangzhou

4.7 • 710 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

What is the state of the art of artificial intelligence (AI) in China and the United States? How does language recognition differ for Chinese and English? And what’s up with self-driving cars? To answer these and many other questions, Kaiser and Jeremy talk to Andrew Ng, founder and chairman of Coursera, an associate professor in the department of computer science at Stanford University, and the chief scientist of Baidu, where he heads up the company’s research on deep learning and AI. The discussion delves into the differences between Chinese and American engineers, entrepreneurial culture in China, artificial neural networks, augmented reality, and the role big internet companies and their resources play in advancing AI. Check out the SupChina backgrounder on their conversation here. Recommendations: Jeremy: Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen by Larry McMurtry, the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove and co-writer of the screenplay of Brokeback Mountain. Andrew: Talking to Humans (free download). Kaiser: Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart, the series from The New York Times on the Arab Spring and its aftermath, by Scott Anderson. Download this episode. Subscribe on Overcast, iTunes or Stitcher, tune in with your favorite app using our feed or check out the Sinica archives. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Cynica podcast.
0:10.7	Weekly discussion of current affairs in China produced in partnership with SUPChina.
0:14.9	SubChina is a great way to stay on top of China news in a few minutes' day with a daily email newsletter, a mobile phone app, and at the website,
0:22.2	supChina.com. It's a feast of business, political, and cultural news about a nation that is
0:27.1	reshaping the world. We're coming to you today from the offices of Baidu USA in Sunnyvale, California.
0:32.4	I'm Kaiser Gwa, joined, of course, by Jeremy Goldcorn, who many people are saying was actually the founder of ISIS.
0:39.7	Jeremy, great to see you.
0:42.3	Great to see you, guys.
0:43.9	Thank you for that wonderful introduction.
0:46.4	It was sarcasm.
0:47.8	Don't you people understand sarcasm?
0:49.7	What is sarcasm?
0:52.0	You mainstream media types, I tell you.
0:58.6	Gentleful listeners, you are doubtless wondering why I am back here at my erstwhile employer's Silicon Valley offices.
1:00.9	I left Baidu, as many of you know, at the end of April of this year.
1:04.8	And I think it's still important to remind listeners of that fact by way of disclosure.
1:08.3	I am no longer an employee and own no shares in the company,
1:11.4	but I am still somebody with lots of friends here at Bidu, and today we are here to talk to one
1:16.3	of them. Today on Seneca, we are absolutely delighted to be joined by one of the world's leading
1:21.1	minds on artificial intelligence and particularly on the approach to AI known as deep learning.
1:27.4	He's co-founder and chairman of the massive
1:29.4	open online course or MOOC platform Coursera. And since May of 2014, he has served as
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