Do you know that driving accidents are the number one cause of death for young people?
— Sebastian Thrun
There are few moments in my life where I really remember what I was doing.
Obviously, a lot of non-profits live on donations, and that's a wonderful thing. But higher education can't exist on donations only because, if that were the case, we would have a hard time paying teachers adequate salaries.
I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia.
Perhaps we can get to the point where we can outsource our own personal experiences entirely into a computer - and possibly our own personality.
Millions of Americans are denied the privilege of driving on health grounds.
You could claim that moving from pixelated perception, where the robot looks at sensor data, to understanding and predicting the environment is a Holy Grail of artificial intelligence.
We don't live in a world where any job lasts forever.
The 99 percent should be protesting college campuses.
The teachers I know are extremely dedicated people.
There are already robotic journalists. Sure, they aren't very good, but they're getting better faster than human journalists are.
There's almost no problem that can't be solved. That's important as a premise. History has proven it over and over again.
Flipkart is one of the most innovative companies in the way it approaches the market.
When you program a robot to be intelligent, you learn a number of things. You become very humble and develop enormous respect for natural intelligence because, even if you work day and night for several years, your robot isn't that smart after all.
Safety has been paramount for the Google self-driving car team from the very beginning.
There is enormous value in face to face interaction.
There are a lot of old-fashioned things we perpetuate that come from a world that's not digital, not interactive, and not online, and we try to retain it.
When I turned 18, I lost my best friend to a car accident.
At Udacity, we always strive to make things better and learn from our mistakes.
People complain about the rich-and-poor divide. It's crazy, no doubt about it. But what gets me is that today, a billionaire or head of state on their smartphone has the same direct access to information as a homeless person has on a smartphone - or a person in Bangladesh or Papua New Guinea.
I wanted to participate in the political responsibilities of an American citizen. I wanted to vote. I wanted to be a full member of the American community. I made America my home country. It's my identity in many ways.
Machine learning is the science of getting computers to learn without being explicitly programmed.
No state in the U.S. expressly forbids autonomous driving.
Almost all accidents take place because of human distraction.
The bar to get entry into the labour force is rising faster than people expected, and the ability to stay there is falling.
I've always believed that human learning is the result of relatively simple rules combined with massive amounts of hardware and massive amounts of data.
Education should learn from the positive side of gaming - reward, accomplishment, and fun.
We could live in a much better society if there was less personal car ownership.
To me, mathematics, computer science, and the arts are insanely related. They're all creative expressions.
Most cars are parked at any point in time; my estimate is that I use my car about three percent of the time.
As a college student, what really interested me was the human brain and human intelligence.
Can we text twice as much while driving, without the guilt? Yes, we can, if only cars will drive themselves.
In much of computer science, I can easily 'auto-grade' your work and give you an instant meaningful feedback. I can't do this when it comes to the subtlety of human thought, language, poetry, philosophy.
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.
I envision a future without traffic accidents or congestion. A future where everyone can use a car.
There's a lot to be learned about how digital media, the ability to reach anybody any time, really transforms the peer interaction experience in education at large.
The biggest invention of modern time is the book. The book is a digital medium; book text is written in a different form and replicable. What it really does is it allows us to replicate cultural information, scientific technology, and information out of the human brain.
Almost everything interesting hasn't been invented yet.
With the right care at the right time, a huge number of people could stay independent much longer, with a higher quality of life.
Mercedes does beautiful work, absolutely.
We're making progress, but getting machines to replicate our ability to perceive and manipulate the world remains incredibly hard.
Less than one percent of U.S. college students attend Ivy League schools, and these students don't necessarily reflect the world's brightest and most capable thought leaders but, rather, the people who've been afforded the most opportunities to succeed.
There will be no more one-size-fits-all. Education will respond to you.
It's my dream to make learning as addictive as a video game.
Because of the increased efficiency of machines, it is getting harder and harder for a human to make a productive contribution to society.
The last thing I want my robot to be is sarcastic. I want them to be pragmatic and reliable - just like my dishwasher.
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.
My take is that A.I. is taking over. A few humans might still be 'in charge,' but less and less so.
Outside the U.S., most data plans have a data limit.
Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity.
