Industry perspective on Data & AI
A few quotes we align with.
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Stanford / deeplearning.ai
2017
“AI is the new electricity.”
Andrew Ng
Co-founder, Coursera; Founder, Deeplearning.ai
Stanford (Human-Centered AI)
2023
“The future of AI is not about man versus machine, but man with machine.”
Fei-Fei Li
Sequoia Professor of Computer Science
Meta (Facebook AI Research)
2019
“If intelligence was a cake, self-supervised learning would be the cake; supervised learning the icing.”
Yann LeCun
Chief AI Scientist
Fast Forward Labs / Cloudera
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“The core advantage of data is that it tells you something about the world you didn’t know before.”
Hilary Mason
Founder, Fast Forward Labs (data scientist)
University of Toronto / Google (former)
2025
“People haven’t got it yet; people haven’t understood what’s coming.”
Geoffrey Hinton
Computer scientist; Nobel laureate (2024)
U.S. Government / industry
2012
“Ideas for data products tend to start simple and become complex; if they start complex, they become impossible.”
D.J. Patil
Former U.S. Chief Data Scientist