Sebastian Thrun Quotes

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Sebastian Thrun

Profession : Scientist

Birth : May 14, 1967

Mercedes does beautiful work, absolutely.

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If we study learning as a data science, we can reverse engineer the human brain and tailor learning techniques to maximize the chances of student success. This is the biggest revolution that could happen in education, turning it into a data-driven science, and not such a medieval set of rumors professors tend to carry on.

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It's sad that we never get trained to leave assumptions behind.

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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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Machine learning is the science of getting computers to learn without being explicitly programmed.

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In most parts of the world, starting a company that goes bust is dubbed a 'failure.' In Silicon Valley, we call this 'gaining experience.' We are willing to take the risks that are inherent for innovation.

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Education should learn from the positive side of gaming - reward, accomplishment, and fun.

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The individualization of learning fundamentally redefines the role of assessment.

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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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Most rules that you think are written in stone are just societal. You can change the game and really reach for the stars and make the world a better place.

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You can't change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules.

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

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I have a strong disrespect for authority and for rules. Including gravity. Gravity sucks.

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Almost all accidents take place because of human distraction.

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This is the age of disruption.

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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?

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

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Larry Page, co-founder of Google, is an unbelievable big thinker, and there was a saying in Google that if you wanted to know the future, go to Larry.

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I believe e-courses will eventually change people's attitude toward learning. Education will play an increasingly dominant role in people's lives. For people of all ages and all geographies.

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Top notch Indian employers such as Flipkart have hired Udacity Nanodegree graduates based solely on their performance in our programme, without any in-person interview.

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