AI can make an impact like electricity: Coursera's co-founder Andrew Ng - ETtech

Over the years, Andrew Ng has worn many hats - Coursera co-founder, former Baidu chief scientist, founding lead of Google Brain team, and Stanford University adjunct professor. But lately, he has emerged as the leading influencer championing artificial intelligence (AI). Well over 1.5 million people have enrolled in his AI courses in Coursera. In a chat with Vinod Mahanta, Ng talks about recent AI controversies: Elon Musk versus Mark Zuckerberg spat on dangers of AI, Facebook AI chatbots creating their own language and job displacements. Edited excerpts: In an experiment recently, Facebook chatbots created their own language and had to be shut down.