Data Science Quotes

I think AI is the new electricity. Whatever industry you work in, AI will probably transform it, just as 100 years ago the rise of electricity transformed industry after industry—everything from transportation and communications to manufacturing to health care.

Algorithms are opinions embedded in code. It’s really different from what you think most people think of algorithms. They think algorithms are objective and true and scientific. That’s a marketing trick. It’s also a marketing trick to intimidate you with algorithms, to make you trust and fear algorithms because you trust and fear mathematics. A lot can go wrong when we put blind faith in big data.

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

Engineering talent is the most precious resource for any technology company - Palantir and Addepar are successful first and foremost because of their top tech cultures, and the same is true for our best portfolio companies at 8VC.

Our view is that the very best data miners or statisticians can earn as much as the very best golfers or tennis players.

We have entered an era where the kinds of data and analyses that people run have gotten incredibly complicated. So you have researchers using sophisticated software programs that they probably don't understand but are generally accepted and everyone [in the field] uses.

I put a lot of work for 'DS3.'

If our era is the next Industrial Revolution, as many claim, AI is surely one of its driving forces.

Much of the real computer talent today is concentrated in the private sector.

There's a very long tail of all sorts of creative products - beyond our core web search, image search and advertising businesses - that are powered by deep learning.

Baidu's AI is incredibly strong, and the team is stacked up and down with talent; I am confident AI at Baidu will continue to flourish. After Baidu, I am excited to continue working toward the AI transformation of our society and the use of AI to make life better for everyone.

Most of 'big data' is a fraud because it is really 'dumb data.'

I thought the best place to advance the AI mission is at Baidu.

We want to take AI and CIFAR to wonderful new places, where no person, no student, no program has gone before.

I'd rather see artificial intelligence than no intelligence.

By developing deep learning solutions that are faster, easier, and less expensive to use, Nervana is democratizing deep learning and fueling advances in medical diagnostics, image and speech recognition, genomics, agriculture, finance, and eventually across all industries.

Technology has to be invented or adopted.

The thing that really excites me today is building a new AI-powered society.

Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science.

Every day we go over data and use science and data to drive policy and decision-making.

The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day.

Artifical Intellegence is the most important of the coming technologies. Whoever can crack that will have a company worth 10 Microsofts.

I'm excited about all technology.

Most students who take math classes aren't going to be mathematicians. They're going to be engineers, statisticians - in many ways, that's the more important mission of math education.

Big data is indeed a buzzword but it is one that is frankly under-hyped.