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“They explicitly are focusing on things for over a hundred million people”

“Because the field's moving so quickly we also need a different kind of person now. We also need people who are sort of chameleons, who are these highly flexible types that can understand and even contribute to a research project but can also simultaneously Shi…”

“The speech engine that we've built at Baidu called Deep Speech it's actually superhuman for these short queries.”

“So as we have the next wave of AI products I think we're going to move from these sort of bolted on AI features to really immersive AI products.”

“I sincerely think there's a chance that over the next few years we're going to regard speech recognition as a solved problem.”

“Our English system uses like 10 to 20,000 hours of audio. The Mandarin systems are using even more for top end products.”

“And in the past, it always looked like there was some fundamental problem that maybe we could never escape this need for these hand engineered representations. But it turns out that once you have enough data, all of those things go away.”

“We actually do a lot of clever tricks in English where we don't have a lot of a large number of English language products. So for example, it turns out that if you go onto, say, a crowdsourcing service, you can hire people very cheaply to just read books to yo…”

“I think culturally we're all going to have to exercise a lot of critical thinking. We, we've always had this problem in some sense that I can read an article that has someone's name on it and notwithstanding understanding writing style I don't know for sure wh…”

“That the difference between 50 or a hundred milliseconds of latency and 200 milliseconds of latency is actually quite perceptible. And it really anything we can do to bring that down actually affects user experience quite a bit.”

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