“Just as electricity transformed almost everything 100 years ago, today I actually have a hard time thinking of an industry that I don't think AI will transform in the next several years.”

Andrew NgResearcher

Chief scientist at Baidu Research, adjunct professor at Stanford, co-founder of Coursera, founding lead of Google Brain

By the end of 2022 AI had materially reshaped parts of advertising, search, finance, logistics and medical imaging, and generative AI was beginning to spread, but most major industries — construction, agriculture, hospitality, personal services — had not been transformed within the 'next several years' window Ng implied.