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" I ultimately got into robotics because for me, it was the best way to study intelligence. "

Sebastian Thrun

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" Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It's really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition. "

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" I have learned, if you give a team a budget, then the team tries to maximise the budget so that they get the same next year. "

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