What I saw this week #56 – February 15, 2019

Gravitational Waves – A New Era of Astronomy Begins – Brian Greene hosted a panel about the monumental discovery. Amazing work.
The Discarded Image: Episode 01 – Jaws – I’m long overdue linking to this. Fantastic breakdown of Spielberg’s camerawork.
End of Opportunity – What a run!
JP Morgan is working on JPM Coin – Their own digital currency. A good take I’ve read about this is that JPM Coin will lack the benefits of some federated crypto. This whole thing is just getting started.
Kevin Kelly on AR – He seems bullish. See also: His TED Talk on AI. From #25.
Bezos interview from 1999 – He knew where he wanted to go and was willing to say he had no idea if they’d be successful.

February 15, 2019

Andrew Ng on the impact of AI

Andrew Ng resigns from Baidu to focus on helping AI impact more companies and industries. In his resignation post he mentions the impact AI is having, and will continue to have, on every part of life:

Just as electricity transformed many industries roughly 100 years ago, AI will also now change nearly every major industry — healthcare, transportation, entertainment, manufacturing — enriching the lives of countless people.

And:

The industrial revolution freed humanity from much repetitive physical drudgery; I now want AI to free humanity from repetitive mental drudgery, such as driving in traffic. This work cannot be done by any single company — it will be done by the global AI community of researchers and engineers.

This rings very similar to Kevin Kelly’s TED talk about the second industrial revolution being powered by AI which I linked to in December.

There are so many exciting things happening in science and technology; not the least of which is how quickly AI is improving at all levels. I think out of all the current mainstream implementations I’m most impatient for completely autonomous vehicles.

March 22, 2017