Sebastian Thrun
Sebastian Thrun
Sebastian Thrunis an innovator, entrepreneur educator, and computer scientist from Germany. He was CEO and cofounder of Udacity. Before that, he was a Google VP and Fellow, and a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. At Google, he founded Google X. He is currently also an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University and at Georgia Tech...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth14 May 1967
CountryGermany
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Even as a college professor at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford, I saw myself as an entrepreneur, and I went out, took risks, and tried to invent new things, such as participating in the DARPA Grand Challenge and working on self-driving cars.
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We have done the impossible. People said: 'Give up it's not possible', but we did it.
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I used to tell my graduate students at Stanford, 'Don't worry about what job you have to pick because your job picks you. Let your job pick you. Find something you are passionate about. Then when you are passionate, be persistent. Just keep doing it for a while because progress is always hard work. It never rests in ideas.'
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That was a turning point in the race.
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The problem with cars now is that they spend the vast majority of their time parked in the wrong location so they cannot be used by other drivers,
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I don't think we will put higher-ed out of business. I think we'll evolve it. More access, higher quality, lower costs, more global reach.
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Last year's teams failed almost exclusively because of software problems,
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None of us think about a world where all the cars are automated all the time. It could take society 20 years to adopt the technology.
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I find it amazingly easy to take something, if you really believe in it, and turn it to reality.
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I feel every technology can be abused, but fundamentally we put new technologies into the service of humanity.
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You have to understand that teaching online is different, just like movies are different from the stage and TV is different from radio.
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We don't look at problems logically, we look at them emotionally. We look at them through the guts. We look at them as if we're doing a high school problem, like what is beautiful, what makes me recognized among my peers. We don't go and think about things. We, as a society, don't wish to engage in rational thought.
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Extrapolate two, three or four years out, and then let your imagination play.
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The next big milestone we are heading for now is proving self-driving is possible in traffic. Our goal at Stanford is to be able, within the next two years, to drive from downtown San Francisco to downtown Los Angeles with 100 percent autonomy--without any human intervention whatsoever.