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Google Brain cofounder says Big Tech companies are lying about the risks of AI wiping out humanity because they want to dominate the market (finance.yahoo.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Salamendacious@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Big Tech is lying about some AI risks to shut down competition, a Google Brain cofounder has said.
Andrew Ng told The Australian Financial Review that tech leaders hoped to trigger strict regulation.
Some large tech companies didn't want to compete with open source, he added.

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[–] ripe_banana@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Imo, Andrew Ng is actually a cool guy. He started coursera and deeplearning.ai to teach ppl about machine/deep learning. Also, he does a lot of stuff at Stanford.

I wouldn't put him in the corporate shill camp.

[–] maniclucky@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I took several of his classes. At the very least he's an excellent instructor.

[–] elliot_crane@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

He really is. He’s one of those rare instructors that can take the very complex and intricate topics and break them down into something that you can digest as a student, while still giving you room to learn and experiment yourself. In essence, an actual master at his craft.

I also agree with the comment that he doesn’t come across as the corporate shill type, much more like a guy that just really loves ML/AI and wants to spread that knowledge.

[–] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Same, I went from kind of understanding most of the concepts to grokking a lot of it pretty well. He's super good at explaining things.

[–] 5BC2E7@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

There was a lot of controversy about him exploiting the people working for him and he publicly doubled down on admitting the need to overwork them.

Edito: here is a source where they warn the new hires about 70hours per week being normal unfortunately i did not find another source, it’s from xitter: https://twitter.com/betaorbust/status/908890982136942592

[–] ripe_banana@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

This looks like it's from the aifund thing he is a part of, but it seems like they took that part out. I have never worked for of those companies so idk 🤷‍♂️.