In 2004, a small group of roboticists gathered in the Mojave Desert for a race that seemed almost comical in its ambition. The Pentagon's research arm, DARPA, had offered a million-dollar prize…
Sebastian Thrun — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
Sebastian Thrun has appeared on 2 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including Odd Lots, Acquired. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
What Sebastian said
“I decided experts are usually experts of the past, not the future. And if you ask an expert about innovation, something crazy new, they're the least likely person to say yes, it can be done.”
— Sebastian Thrun, on why he initially resisted building a self-driving car for public roads.
Episode appearances
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The Innovator's Dilemma at Google Scale In 2017, eight researchers at Google Brain published a paper called "Attention Is All You Need," describing a new neural network architecture called the…
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