Baidu Hires Andrew Ng

Re:Baidu Hires Andrew Ng by chriskanan on Friday May 16, 2014 @02:14PM (#7756910)

I think Andrew had already severed his official ties with Google when he started Coursera, since he was probably the person to recommend Google hire Geoff Hinton to replace him (see [1]). If Andrew had returned to Google, I don't think he would have as great of a leadership role as the one that Baidu is offering to him, since there are several other AI leaders that are just as prominent, if not more so, at Google (like Hinton and Kurzweil).

[1] http://www.wired.com/2013/03/google_hinton/

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Re:Baidu Hires Andrew Ng by presty on Friday May 16, 2014 @08:41PM (#7758779)

> since there are several other AI leaders that are just as prominent, if not more so, at Google (like Hinton and Kurzweil).

Norvig > Kurzweil

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Re:Baidu Hires Andrew Ng by rpm4321 on Friday May 16, 2014 @11:10PM (#7759133)

Norvig himself has a different take on that:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zihTWh5i2C4#t=86

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Re:Baidu Hires Andrew Ng by krick on Saturday May 17, 2014 @04:13PM (#7760920)

Nothing of a "different take" out there. And even if there would have been, it's only natural to speak praisingly about somebody you introduce.

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Re:Baidu Hires Andrew Ng by kordless on Thursday May 22, 2014 @02:18AM (#7782396)

I just watched Norvig's 100K student talk. Quite impressive and mind blowing to think about.

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