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I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia.
Most cars are parked at any point in time; my estimate is that I use my car about three percent of the time.
Can we text twice as much while driving, without the guilt? Yes, we can, if only cars will drive themselves.
Elite colleges like Stanford are extremely inaccessible. They're failing in their mission to provide access.
We're now at this place where we can make the evolution of academic content match the evolution of the world.
I feel every technology can be abused, but fundamentally we put new technologies into the service of humanity.
Google X is here to do moonshot-type projects. Not just shooting to the moon, but bringing the moon back to Earth.
The last thing I want my robot to be is sarcastic. I want them to be pragmatic and reliable - just like my dishwasher.
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 bar to get entry into the labour force is rising faster than people expected, and the ability to stay there is falling.
I have learned, if you give a team a budget, then the team tries to maximise the budget so that they get the same next year.
As a child, I spent a lot of time with things like Lego, building trains, cars, complex structures, and I really liked that.
I'd aspired to give people a profound education - to teach them something substantial. But the data was at odds with this idea.
That's what Google taught me. Aim higher. Udacity is my playground - to radically experiment and find out. I've seen the light.
Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity.
There are already robotic journalists. Sure, they aren't very good, but they're getting better faster than human journalists are.
With the right care at the right time, a huge number of people could stay independent much longer, with a higher quality of life.
We're making progress, but getting machines to replicate our ability to perceive and manipulate the world remains incredibly hard.
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.
In 50 years, there will be only 10 institutions in the world delivering higher education and Udacity has a shot at being one of them.
Online education that leaves almost everybody behind except for highly motivated students, to me, can't be a viable path to education.
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.
You have to understand that teaching online is different, just like movies are different from the stage and TV is different from radio.
I don't think we will put higher-ed out of business. I think we'll evolve it. More access, higher quality, lower costs, more global reach.
Because of the increased efficiency of machines, it is getting harder and harder for a human to make a productive contribution to society.
I was a popular professor. My teaching ratings were usually good. I could take complicated subjects and explain them in an entertaining way.
I literally worked at research labs where the staff really tried to steer management away from the modern technology that was actually better.
Perhaps we can get to the point where we can outsource our own personal experiences entirely into a computer - and possibly our own personality.
I always felt that if countries knew each other better, there would be less war. Often, conflict goes with demonizing other countries and cultures.
You can learn for your own sake, and that's fine, but if you come to Udacity, you learn because you want someone else to understand what you learned.
Larry Page, co-founder of Google, is an unbelievable big thinker, and there was a saying in Google that if you wanted to know the future, go to Larry.
We're often too entrenched in existing structures and are so primed to think that if we grew up with the values and the norms, they have to be correct.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If you focus on the single question of who knows best what students need in the workforce, it's the people already in the workforce. Why not give industry a voice?
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.
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.
Top notch Indian employers such as Flipkart have hired Udacity Nanodegree graduates based solely on their performance in our programme, without any in-person interview.
If you look at the ability of a self-driving car to stay in the lane and not to speed and keep a good distance to the car in front of you, it actually does better than me.
Question every assumption and go towards the problem, like the way they flew to the moon. We should have more moon shots and flights to the moon in areas of societal importance.
I am particularly surprised that certain outlets look at pass rates irrespective of student population. As if inner city high school kids are to fare as well as college students.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Honestly, the average American spends about 52 minutes a day in commute traffic. And as much as I love driving my car and many people like driving their car, commuting has never been fun for me.
I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team of engineers to turn science fiction into reality.
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.