The individualization of learning fundamentally redefines the role of assessment.
Sebastian Thrun
Education should learn from the positive side of gaming - reward, accomplishment, and fun.
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.
It's important to celebrate your failures as much as your successes. If you celebrate your failures really well, and if you get to the motto and say, 'Wow, I failed, I tried, I was wrong, I learned something,' then you realize you have no fear, and when your fear goes away, you can move the world.
Mercedes does beautiful work, absolutely.
To me, mathematics, computer science, and the arts are insanely related. They're all creative expressions.
Perhaps we can get to the point where we can outsource our own personal experiences entirely into a computer - and possibly our own personality.
At the end of the day, the true value proposition of education is employment.
Few ideas work on the first try. Iteration is key to innovation.
That's what Google taught me. Aim higher. Udacity is my playground - to radically experiment and find out. I've seen the light.
There's almost no problem that can't be solved. That's important as a premise. History has proven it over and over again.
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?
You can't change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules.
Technology is synonymous for connection with other people.
Online education that leaves almost everybody behind except for highly motivated students, to me, can't be a viable path to education.
Machine learning is the science of getting computers to learn without being explicitly programmed.
Horizontal meetings are team or project meetings, set up to coordinate individual activities. When I worked in a large tech company, those meetings just popped up in my calendar by the dozen.
As a child, I spent a lot of time with things like Lego, building trains, cars, complex structures, and I really liked that.
I have a really deep belief that we create technologies to empower ourselves. We've invented a lot of technology that just makes us all faster and better, and I'm generally a big fan of this. I just want to make sure that this technology stays subservient to people. People are the number one entity there is on this planet.
There is a simple fix to our excessive meeting culture, but it is not easy to implement. It's one of these things that are easy to say but hard to do. The fix is: abandon all recurring meetings. I am serious. All!
I feel every technology can be abused, but fundamentally we put new technologies into the service of humanity.
There is enormous value in face to face interaction.
As a college student, what really interested me was the human brain and human intelligence.
Giving education away for free is a really good idea, but it can't be the future of education. There has to be a business model around it that actually works.
There are already robotic journalists. Sure, they aren't very good, but they're getting better faster than human journalists are.
I always felt that if countries knew each other better, there would be less war. Often, conflict goes with demonizing other countries and cultures.
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.
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.
Many of us are inspired and are eager to get things done. But once too many people are involved, life becomes complicated. We are all social beings, so we have an innate urge to incorporate everyone's thoughts.
This is the age of disruption.
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.
What I see is democratizing education will change everything.
The teachers I know are extremely dedicated people.
You are going to fail, and failing, for me, is as joyful as succeeding. Failing means that there is something to learn, and we can improve and do it better next time.
I ultimately got into robotics because for me, it was the best way to study intelligence.
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.
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.
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.
There are few moments in my life where I really remember what I was doing.
If we could do away with traffic accidents, that'd be wonderful. There'd be more than a million people saved every year on this planet.
I'm really looking forward to a time when generations after us look back and say how ridiculous it was that humans were driving cars.
Innovation means change.
You have to understand that teaching online is different, just like movies are different from the stage and TV is different from radio.
Do you know that driving accidents are the number one cause of death for young people?
I was a popular professor. My teaching ratings were usually good. I could take complicated subjects and explain them in an entertaining way.
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.
No state in the U.S. expressly forbids autonomous driving.
Because of the increased efficiency of machines, it is getting harder and harder for a human to make a productive contribution to society.
Google X is here to do moonshot-type projects. Not just shooting to the moon, but bringing the moon back to Earth.
We don't look at problems logically, we look at them emotionally. We look at them through the guts. We look at them as if we're doing a high school problem, like what is beautiful, what makes me recognized among my peers. We don't go and think about things. We, as a society, don't wish to engage in rational thought.
