Astro Teller
Astro Teller
Astro Telleris an entrepreneur, scientist, and author, with expertise in the field of intelligent technology...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth29 May 1970
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Most of us have to spend a lot of energy to learn how to drive a car. Then we have to spend the rest of our lives over-concentrating as we drive and text and eat a burrito and put on makeup. As a result, 30,000 people die every year in a car accident in the U.S.
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Moonshot thinking starts with picking a big problem: something huge, long existing, or on a global scale.
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Moonshots live in that place between audacious projects and pure science fiction.
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Making a moonshot is almost more an exercise in creativity than it is in technology.
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Let's make health care a meritocracy. Access to the best care goes to people who did what they could to avoid becoming ill.
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We need to make sure that the things we are already working on turn out to do the things we believe they can do and creating value both for the world and ultimately for Google.
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When you attack a problem as though it were solvable, even though you don't know how to solve it, you will be shocked with what you come up with. It's 100 times more worth it. It's never 100 times harder.
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The real goal of AI is to understand and build devices that can perceive, reason, act, and learn at least as well as we can.
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I think we'll see, not only with Glass, but the watch wearables, with the contact lens, that each of these things have their own best purpose, but it will take more on our part and society's part to figure out what that is.
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I think wearables in general have, as their best calling, to better understand our current state and needs and to express those back to the world.
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It comes up over and over and over again that a ten times increase in the weight-oriented density of batteries or the volume metric, the space-oriented density of batteries, would enable so many other moonshots that that's one that just constantly comes up over and over again, and we will start that moonshot if we can find a great idea.
glass
Glass is the world's worst spy camera. If you want to surreptitiously take photos, I would not use Glass.
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Here is the surprising truth: It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better.
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Going from an error rate of 25 meters in GPS to 2.5 meters is huge. Going to 25 centimeters is going to matter just as much.