Which Way Next? with Guest Dr. Sebastian Thrun - Episode 001

Which Way Next? is a Singularity University webcast series of monthly round-table discussions on exponential technologies with leaders in industry, science and technology. This is a recording of our live premiere episode with Dr. Sebastian Thrun, PhD, Research Professor & Executive Director of the Artificial Intelligence Lab at Stanford University and Google Fellow on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011. On this episode, he joined SU Chairman & Co-Founder Dr. Peter Diamandis, MD in a discussion on Artificial Intelligence and the Google Autonomous Car. Earlier this year, Fast Company honored Dr. Thrun with the title of "fifth most creative person in the world."

Dr. Thrun recently had an essay published in the New York Times about self-driving cars: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/06/sci...

Which Way Next? focuses on the impact and opportunities presented by exponential technologies on your industry and our collaborative efforts to solve the world's grand challenges. The webcast is produced by Singularity University and hosted by Salim Ismail, SU's Global Ambassador. http://singularityu.org/whichwaynext

Broadcast Date - December 7 2011

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[vikram360]

sebastian, Why are you so happy?

[Alectr0n]

Nice of him to thank us for watching at the end. This whole talk had a very friendly atmosphere.

[eyhexs]

you dont educate them, you take a dollar out of the pocket of each of those 6 billion people and put it in your own :-D

[b war]

thank you

[Richard Allen]

i came here with the question: "what happened to the self-driving car and why dont we have them yet?" but i'll leave here with the satisfaction and gratefulness to Dr. Thrun for throttling his project based on the such valid remaining safety concerns. i can wait a few more years. thank u!

[cheatdath]

Fat Gollum

[TheLionheartArts]

that is the question

[Brad Haaf]

3d printing , robotic manufacturing , AI = to me IKEA ,gm, Honda , Walmart, compressed into corner store. So how do we reeducate 3-6 billion in 3-6 years?

[Ralf Lippold]

Fund your brightest people (like professors, entrepreneurs) unconditioned, and be surprised by the real #innovation that will happen - @SebastianThrun cc @DRESDENconcept @LockSchuppen

[justinnilgiri]

6:02 the guy is on facebook! and i'm also on facebook watching this! how weird..