Summary: someone who is working on a product to search by speech and images issues a press release predicting that people will soon have half their searches being speech and images.
Well Andrew Ng can work on pretty much anything he wanted to in search. It's not as if he is a random product manager assigned to this job. He picked this. He put his money where his mouth is. I'd think that would give him more credibility on the claim, not less.
Right. It's reasonable to question a claim if someone has a vested interest in the outcome, but Baidu's future is looking pretty secure no matter what interface people prefer for their searches. Researchers definitely have biases, but I would much rather hear an educated opinion from a researcher who has chosen to dedicate time and thought into a subject than almost anybody else.
Came here for this. (Not saying Ng is wrong though.)