An AI pioneer says the technology is 'limited' and won't replace humans anytime soon [View all]

Source: NBC News

Dec. 27, 2025, 6:00 AM EST


NEW YORK — When Andrew Ng talks about AI, people listen — in classrooms, boardrooms and Silicon Valley. The researcher-turned-educator-turned-investor has become an AI statesman of sorts, co-founding Google Brain, which became part of Google’s flagship DeepMind division that now produces some of the world’s best AI systems, and serving as Chief Scientist of Chinese tech titan Baidu.

In today’s influencer-obsessed information landscape, Ng’s biggest claim to fame might be his credential as a “Top Voice” on LinkedIn, an honor the platform gives to a select few handpicked experts, with over 2.3 million followers.

Armed with decades of AI experience, Ng says he remains clear-eyed about AI’s abilities. “The tricky thing about AI is that it is amazing and it is also highly limited,” Ng told NBC News in an interview on the sidelines of his AI Developers Conference in November. “And understanding that balance of how amazing and how limited it is, that’s difficult.”

Over the past few years, generative AI has attracted hundreds of billions of dollars in investment as nearly every major tech company has pivoted towards the industry’s hottest topic. But in the last several months, many have questioned whether the surging investment has created a bubble now at risk of bursting due to persistent issues like hallucinations, AI’s involvement in mental health crises and increased regulatory scrutiny.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/andrew-ng-says-ai-limited-wont-replace-humans-anytime-soon-rcna246074

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It IS a bubble and the amount of resources being expended to create datacenters that will not have enough power to operate nor enough staff knowledgeable to maintain the hardware itself (with all the focus on software programmers), looks like a catastrophe in the making.