Sebastian Thrun: Flying Cars, Autonomous Vehicles, and Education

Sebastian Thrun is one of the greatest roboticists, computer scientists, and educators of our time. He led development of the autonomous vehicles at Stanford that won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge and placed second in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. He then led the Google self-driving car program which launched the self-driving revolution. He taught the popular Stanford course on Artificial Intelligence in 2011 which was one of the first MOOCs. That experience led him to co-found Udacity, an online education platform. He is also the CEO of Kitty Hawk, a company working on building flying cars or more technically eVTOLS which stands for electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft.

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00:00 - Introduction 03:24 - The Matrix 04:39 - Predicting the future 30+ years ago 06:14 - Machine learning and expert systems 09:18 - How to pick what ideas to work on 11:27 - DARPA Grand Challenges 17:33 - What does it take to be a good leader? 23:44 - Autonomous vehicles 38:42 - Waymo and Tesla Autopilot 42:11 - Self-Driving Car Nanodegree 47:29 - Machine learning 51:10 - AI in medical applications 54:06 - AI-related job loss and education 57:51 - Teaching soft skills 1:00:13 - Kitty Hawk and flying cars 1:08:22 - Love and AI 1:13:12 - Life https://lexfridman.com/sebastian-thrun/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sebastian-thrun

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