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
assumption fallacy humans
The assumption that humans could be a reliable back up for the system was a fallacy!
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Google[x]'s Focus on the Physical World
humanity way problem
Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we'll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it.
technology google way
One of the missions of Google[x] is to use technology to get technology out of the way
shocked solve though
When you attack a problem as though it were solvable, even though you don't know how to solve it, you will be shocked with what you come up with. It's 100 times more worth it. It's never 100 times harder.
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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.
audacious projects pure science
Moonshots live in that place between audacious projects and pure science fiction.
science intelligent winning
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.
machines artificial-intelligence artificial
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the science of how to get machines to do the things they do in the movies.
bravery innovation borders
Leaps of innovation require a bravery that borders on absurdity.
rate
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.
batteries constantly density enable great increase ten volume
It comes up over and over and over again that a ten times increase in the weight-oriented density of batteries or the volume metric, the space-oriented density of batteries, would enable so many other moonshots that that's one that just constantly comes up over and over again, and we will start that moonshot if we can find a great idea.
commands computer glass information responds
Google Glass is the wearable computer that responds to voice commands and displays information on a visual display.
glasses ourselves pair rather trying understanding
Rather than thinking of ourselves as a computer, and trying to give you computer-like functionality, it's better to start from the understanding that this is a pair of glasses, and say, 'How smart can we make these glasses for you?'