Baidu's Andrew Ng on the economics of AI and what tech companies owe the labor force

In the latest episode of the ArchiTECHt Show podcast, I speak with Baidu chief scientist Andrew Ng. Among prominent AI experts, Ng has a particularly unique and global perspective, perhaps because of his broad experiences. Aside from from heading AI strategy for a massive Chinese internet company, Ng also co-founded Coursera, taught machine learning at Stanford and was an early member of the Google Brain team. Keep reading for highlights from the interview, and scroll to the bottom for links to listen to the podcast pretty much everywhere else you might want to. In the news portion of the show, co-host Barb Darrow and I talk even more about AI--specifically Amazon's open source strategy in that space, and if it can repeat the product-first success it had in the broader cloud computing market.