He's made enormous contributions to human knowledge, but doesn't seem to be interested in the hard work of bringing a product to market.
He even left Coursera to return to theory.
what exactly do you define as "the hard work of bringing a product to market"? To me, his work at Google certainly applies as bringing a product to market - the cat recognition deeplearning AI is a product.
That led to an interesting paper and a lot of potential applications.
By "the hard work of bringing a product to market", I meant the process of perfecting the product for actual applications.
> By "the hard work of bringing a product to market", I meant the process of perfecting the product for actual applications
I'll have to disagree - "perfecting the product" is one of many roles required to bring a product to market. Other roles that are just as important are "dreamer/visionary", "practical starter/founder", "scale-up person". Sometimes one person can assume multiple roles, but rarely all roles, all of them are hard work.
This is a blatantly false dichotomy: there's nothing about publishing that precludes anyone from "working as a team to deliver a great product"
> Researchers often aren't the best product creators.
Tell that to Andrew Ng!