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Andrew Ng: AGI is hyped PR, AI will improve continuously for decades
“I feel like because of PR goals, AGI has been hyped up as a finish line, but I don't think it's a finish line. It's just, we'll have continually improving capabilities for, you know, decades to come.”
Andrew Ng: AI companies facing existential risk drive the worst industry hype
“The companies with something to lose whose statements over time have become more moderated. So, you know, I find that as your established company, you just say more sensible things, but there are some companies that I think are at greater existential risk. And…”
Andrew Ng: Closed AI models and high salaries slow Western AI innovation
“When the US has more closed models, and when, you know, teams are trying to pay these hundred million dollar salaries to extract talent, then that circulation of knowledge becomes very slow, and it slows down the rate of American and European innovation.”
Andrew Ng: AI builders should design for future margins, not today's costs
“Absolute margins are important, but when you have a view for where the technology is going, Then it lets you not build for the margins today, but what you can forecast them being in the future”
Andrew Ng: AI technology itself does not create business moats
“AI as a technology Doesn't really offer an answer to the moats for most businesses. So if you're building AI, you know, for drones or legal or for whatever, the moat is more of a function of that industry.”
Andrew Ng: Proprietary software is a significantly weaker moat today
“Previously software used to be a moat, right? If you had, you know, invested 10 years to build a software, it's really hard to replicate that. That one moat is much weaker than before”
Andrew Ng: Moats in coding and API tools are weaker than consumer brands
“So the coding dev tools and API tools market, the mode there's weaker than having a strong consumer brand.”
Andrew Ng: High capital efficiency hinders deploying billions in AI applications
“But the dilemma is you could do it in a very capital efficient way. So if someone wants to say, I want to put ten billion dollars to work. You know, yes, you can build ten billion dollars worth of data centers. We know how to spend that money. But how do you s…”
Andrew Ng: AI creates value by accelerating workflows and expanding scale
“So instead of cost savings, if AI lets you do something way faster, or lets you take a task and do it a thousand times more, instead of serving a small number of people, let's serve a lot more people because it's not economic to do so. These are the two patter…”
Andrew Ng: AI requires existing workers to reskill, unlike past technological shifts
“The change is so fast this time round that we need people that are alive today to learn new skills, as opposed to we need their kids to learn new skills, and that's actually very challenging, and historically I don't think we've ever been good at that.”