Andrew Ng加盟百度

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5月18日,在百度位于加州Sunnyvale的百度美国研发中心新址启动仪式上,斯坦福教授Andrew Ng被任命为百度首席科学家,全面负责百度研究院。下面部分内容,是在Quora上收集的一些关于Andrew的问答:

  1. Andrew的基本信息:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Ng
  2. Why did Andrew Ng leave Google research to join Baidu?

    George Anders, Author of The Benjamins, a social satire:

    I spoke with him over the weekend and he sounded pretty excited about the research opportunities at Baidu. For fuller details, see this write-up of our interview, posted on Forbes’s website: Baidu’s Coup: Ng Aims To Build Silicon Valley’s New Brain TrustAreas that extend beyond our conversation, which might be relevant, too:

    • The budget available at Baidu is BIG. It’s not as if Google doesn’t have lots of money, too, but it may be harder at Google to take command of a project that size (without many caveats being attached.)
    • He says he likes the opportunity to pool U.S. and Chinese research efforts. This is perhaps easier to do at Baidu than Google.
    • Wired reported that his Baidu deal took shape over a three-hour lunch with Baidu CEO Robin Li. If you’re lingering over lunch that long, you’re both excited about the topic of conversation and the degree of rapport. He could have quite a solid relationship with senior Google management and still not have that level of access or support. Here’s the Wired article.
  3. What role and responsibilities will Andrew Ng have at Baidu? Who will he be reporting to?

    Kaiser Kuo, Director, International Communications, Baidu Inc.:

    He will report to Jing Wang, senior VP. His role is head of Baidu Research, which is our name for the company’s advanced research initiatives. He has overall responsibility for three labs at present (the Silicon Valley AI Lab, under Adam Coates; the Beijing Deep Learning Lab, under Yu Kai; and the Beijing Big Data Lab under Zhang Tong) but that number is certainly expected to grow. He sets overall strategic direction of research and coordinates work between and among the labs. He has been given a very long leash, and is expected to pursue advanced projects on long timetables. In a group interview that he gave along with Robin Li and other senior Baidu officials just now, Robin said that Andrew’s time horizons could be as much as 10 years.

  4. What is Baidu working on at their research center in Sunnyvale (which Andrew Ng will be heading)?

    Kaiser Kuo, Director, International Communications, Baidu Inc.:

    Andrew’s purview includes three labs at present: The Beijing Deep Learning Lab, the Beijing Big Data Lab, and the Silicon Valley AI Lab. A shorthand way of understanding what the Sunnyvale-based research team will be working on is unsupervised (as opposed to tagged-data based) deep learning, whereas Beijing—closer to the product teams and in close proximity to the prodigious volume of data thrown off by Baidu’s search engine and other products—will still focus on the many applications of tagged-data learning..

  5. How do employees at Baidu feel about the hire of Andrew Ng?

    Kaiser Kuo, Director, International Communications, Baidu Inc.:

    I couldn’t be happier myself! We actually get a twofer with Andrew, as he’s also bringing on his longtime collaborator (and former grad student) Adam Coates, who’s an AI and robotics pioneer in his own right. In the time I’ve spent with Andrew I’ve found him to be extremely thoughtful, well-spoken, inspiring and of course massively intelligent. Most importantly we’re very confident that he’s going to lead our labs (in Deep Learning, Big Data, AI and eventually more) into real groundbreaking territory—unsupervised deep learning (in addition to the strengths Baidu already possesses in tagged-data learning) and much more I’m not at liberty to share. His guiding principals I really like: Semi-porous, open, not publication-fixated, not at all snobbish vis-a-vis the D part of R&D, interested in seeing the work done at our labs actually impact hundreds of millions of people. We’re also of course very proud that he was as excited by the work that our Deep Learning team has already done, and how well w’ve already integrated it into our products, from image identification and image-based search to voice IME to OCR to natural language and semantic intelligence to improved search results and ad matching.

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“Andrew Ng加盟百度”有2个回复

  1. asr2k 于 2014-05-26 10:40 下午

    Kaiser Kuo 也是一很有意思的哥们,他在quoran的很多回答都非常精准,更不用提他的摇滚之路了。

  2. AbelJiang 于 2014-05-27 1:49 上午

    人也超级Nice,很爽快答应引用他的回答