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Andrew Ng: Building Faster with AI [video]

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242 points sandslash | 4 comments | 10 Jul 25 14:02 UTC | HN request time: 1.046s | source
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w10-1 ◴[11 Jul 25 18:09 UTC] No.44535288[source]▶
Not sure why this has drawn silence and attacks - whence the animus to Ng? His high-level assessments seem accurate, he's a reasonable champion of AI, and he speaks credibly based on advising many companies. What am I missing? (He does fall on the side of open models (as input factors): is that the threat?)

He argues that landscape is changing (at least quarterly), and that services are (best) replaceable (often week-to-week) because models change, but that orchestration is harder to replace, and that there are relatively few orchestration platforms.

So: what platforms are available? Are there other HN posts that assess the current state of AI orchestration?

(What's the AI-orchestration acronym? not PAAS but AIOPAAS? AOP? (since aspect-oriented programming is history))

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jart ◴[11 Jul 25 19:42 UTC] No.44536132[source]▶
I like Andrew Ng. He's like the Mister Rogers of AI. I always listen when he has something to say.
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koakuma-chan ◴[11 Jul 25 19:51 UTC] No.44536212[source]▶
Is he affiliated with nghttp?
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1. dmoy ◴[11 Jul 25 21:48 UTC] No.44537091[source]▶
No?

ng*, ng-*, or *-ng is typically "Next Generation" in software nomenclature. Or, star trek (TNG). Alternatively, "ng-" is also from angular-js.

Ng in Andrew Ng is just his name, like Wu in Chinese.

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2. janderson215 ◴[11 Jul 25 22:40 UTC] No.44537506[source]▶
Wu from Wu-Tang?
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3. yorwba ◴[12 Jul 25 04:35 UTC] No.44539335[source]▶
No, Wu-Tang ultimately derives from the Wudang Mountains, with the corresponding Cantonese being Moudong https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%AD%A6%E7%95%B6%E5%B1%B1
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4. 57473m3n7Fur7h3 ◴[12 Jul 25 09:31 UTC] No.44540642{3}[source]▶
And between that and the rap group there’s this important movie:

Shaolin and Wu Tang (1983)

> The film is about the rivalry between the Shaolin (East Asian Mahayana) and Wu-Tang (Taoist Religion) martial arts schools. […]

> East Coast hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan has cited the film as an early inspiration. The film is one of Wu-Tang Clan founder RZA's favorite films of all time. Founders RZA and Ol' Dirty Bastard first saw the film in 1992 in a grindhouse cinema on Manhattan's 42nd Street and would found the group shortly after with GZA. The group would release its debut album Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), featuring samples from the film's English dub; the album's namesake is an amalgamation of Enter the Dragon (1973), Shaolin and Wu Tang, and The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaolin_and_Wu_Tang