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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. "

Sebastian Thrun

Intelligence

Nobody

Think

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Position

Myself

" Because of the increased efficiency of machines, it is getting harder and harder for a human to make a productive contribution to society. "

" As a child, I spent a lot of time with things like Lego, building trains, cars, complex structures, and I really liked that. "

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Time

Lot

" Every time I act on a fear, I feel disappointed in myself. I have a lot of fear. If I can quit all fear in my life and all guilt, then I tend to be much, much more living up to my standards. I've never seen a person fail if they didn't fear failure. "

" We should have lifelong monitoring of our vital signs that predict things like skin or pancreatic cancer so we can eradicate it. We should have personalized medicine; there's a huge amount of innovation possible. "

" When you raise a child, you don't sit down and take all the rules of life, write them into a big catalog, and start reading the child all these individual rules from A to Z. When we raise a child, a lot of what we do is let the child experiment and guide the experimentation. The child basically has to process his own data and learn from experience. "

" We're making progress, but getting machines to replicate our ability to perceive and manipulate the world remains incredibly hard. "

" You can learn for your own sake, and that's fine, but if you come to Udacity, you learn because you want someone else to understand what you learned. "

" In my son's kindergarten, they're telling us how to get him into Stanford. By their advice, I'm doing everything wrong, because I'm trying to make him happy rather than putting him through as many piano lessons as possible. "

" 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. "

" There is enormous value in face to face interaction. "

" I am a really impatient person who wants to see many issues fixed with solutions that don't yet exist. "

" Few ideas work on the first try. Iteration is key to innovation. "

" 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. "

" We're often too entrenched in existing structures and are so primed to think that if we grew up with the values and the norms, they have to be correct. "

" The Jetsons had them in the 1960s. They were the defining element of 'Knight Rider' in the 1980s: cars that drive themselves. Self-driving cars appear in countless science fiction movies. By Hollywood standards, they are so normal we don't even notice them. But in real life, they still don't exist. What if you could buy one today? "

" Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity. "

Sebastian Thrun

Amazing

Optimist

" When I turned 18, I lost my best friend to a car accident. "

" Can we text twice as much while driving, without the guilt? Yes, we can, if only cars will drive themselves. "

" Most cars are parked at any point in time; my estimate is that I use my car about three percent of the time. "

" Horizontal meetings are team or project meetings, set up to coordinate individual activities. When I worked in a large tech company, those meetings just popped up in my calendar by the dozen. "

" I can give my love of learning to other people. "

" I literally worked at research labs where the staff really tried to steer management away from the modern technology that was actually better. "

" Many students learn best by doing. But because classrooms force the same pace on all students, they limit the degree to which students can truly learn through trial and error. Instead, lectures still force many students to follow material passively and in lockstep pace. "

Sebastian Thrun

Doing

Best

" If you focus on the single question of who knows best what students need in the workforce, it's the people already in the workforce. Why not give industry a voice? "

" We humans usually feel that we are the best at everything we do, that we can safely drive ourselves. But tens of thousands of people die every year. We need to be open to having technology assist us, to find ways in which technology makes us safer. "

" Many of us are inspired and are eager to get things done. But once too many people are involved, life becomes complicated. We are all social beings, so we have an innate urge to incorporate everyone's thoughts. "

" Access to high-quality education is way too limited. The United States has the world's most admirable higher education system, and yet it is very restrictive. It's so hard to get into. I never got into it as a student. "

" I always felt that if countries knew each other better, there would be less war. Often, conflict goes with demonizing other countries and cultures. "