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>Andrew Ng once tweeted about a 1-second heuristic [..] And was summarily derided for it. Read the replies to his tweet to see some of the suggested counter exa
by jasode 8y ago
>Andrew Ng once tweeted about a 1-second heuristic [..] And was summarily derided for it. Read the replies to his tweet to see some of the suggested counter examples.
Fyi to add some extra context to that "1 sec heuristic"...
I've seen several Andrew Ng presentations over the last several years and in the live talks, he has more of a lead up to that "1 second" idea[0]. He was trying to help project managers at Baidu think about the possibilities of new AI products to build.
Unfortunately, the extreme brevity of that tweet removes all that surrounding context that so it makes him look like an AI crackpot instead of an AI realist. (E.g. The top tweet reply from Pedro Domingos seems to be based on the limitations of current AI but Andrew Ng was trying to convey the idea to PMs of what new AI to build.)
[0] deep link at 12m20s for context and 14m05s is the "1 sec heuristic": https://youtu.be/21EiKfQYZXc?t=740 https://youtu.be/21EiKfQYZXc?t=740
- olooney 8y agoThank you, good clarification, sorry if I made it sound I was dog-piling on Ng. Andrew Ng works harder at explaining ML in a non-technical way than anyone else I can think of, and the 1-second rule came out of that genuine desire to educate. I've been in the exact same boat: a senior executive who "used to code" trying to get me to explain to him in simple terms what kind of problems ML could solve; I sort of fumbled through it by mentioning the 1 second rule and giving some concrete examples. It's just absurdly hard to put it in non-technical terms.