Astro Teller
Astro Teller
Astro Telleris an entrepreneur, scientist, and author, with expertise in the field of intelligent technology...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth29 May 1970
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Most of us have to spend a lot of energy to learn how to drive a car. Then we have to spend the rest of our lives over-concentrating as we drive and text and eat a burrito and put on makeup. As a result, 30,000 people die every year in a car accident in the U.S.
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Phones would not be better if they could be cooler looking, if they could weight less, or if they could have more battery. Phones would be better if we didn't have to carry them around.
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Actually, that issue of 'Don't be evil' is probably the number one reason we throw out ideas.
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If software's the only thing in your bag of tools, I'm not going to give you great odds.
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Our culture already has a number of well known stories about artificial life and non-human intelligence. In 'Exegesis,' I've tried to not only tell a new and engaging story but also to comment on those well known stories through the details of my novel.
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Google is already overflowing with incredibly creative bright groups already working on lots of the software problems of the world.
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I grant that people are generally uncomfortable with how fast privacy issues are changing in the world, but Google Glass is not going to move the needle on that.
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Moonshots live in that place between audacious projects and pure science fiction.
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Building intelligent machines can teach us about our minds - about who we are - and those lessons will make our world a better place. To win that knowledge, though, our species will have to trade in another piece of its vanity.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the science of how to get machines to do the things they do in the movies.
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Leaps of innovation require a bravery that borders on absurdity.
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Going from an error rate of 25 meters in GPS to 2.5 meters is huge. Going to 25 centimeters is going to matter just as much.
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The longer you work on something, the more you don't really want to know what the world is going to tell you.
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The assumption that humans could be a reliable back up for the system was a fallacy!