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Andrew Ng

Andrew Ng

British-American computer scientist

Aug 28, 2026

4:03
What do you think?
4:04
The job apocalypse or jobpocalypse, this idea that AI will take over fifty percent of jobs, people will be out of work, rioting in the streets, that's just not gonna happen.
4:14
With every wave of technology, including AI, the skills we need to do great work shifts.
4:20
And so AI is changing job professions.
4:23
But boy, I wish AI were-- AI just doesn't work well enough.
4:27
I know that handful of businesses want to hype up AI to say, "We have super intelligence, or we have artificial general intelligence or whatever, and can do all the stuff that humans do." I wish AI worked better.
4:38
We're just not good enough to make AI do everything a human does.

21 MINS LATER

25:44
Do you think there is any problem with that?
39:52
Not data?
39:53
It's not data.
39:54
I think it's definitely not data.
39:55
Not that data is not important, but that's definitely not the bottleneck.
39:58
The interesting thing about AI hype is there's almost always a gem of truth in the hype.
40:03
It's just that it's been hyped up 10 times more than the reality.
40:07
And maybe...

6 MINS LATER

45:41
Do you think we won't see that transition?

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