Sebastian Thrun
@SebastianThrun
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CEO StealthStartup, Adjunct Prof at Stanford and GaTech
Mountain View, CA
Joined June 2011
Trying to help the German Government how to regulate AI. The question came up: What if all of Europe became one country (United States of Europe)? — they would then be the second largest economy in the world. Crazy? What do people think?
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Nexar’s real-world data just built the best incident prediction model — Meet BADAS 1.0. 🔥 It beat state-of-the-art models by learning from 10B+ real miles and 60M+ real events, not simulations. 🚀 Discover what it can do for you: https://t.co/vP5iq0XzHN
#BADAS #AI #ADAS
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So very excited to see these news:
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Dan Neil takes a test flight of the Pivotal BlackFly, a series-produced electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle made for consumers
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Incredible honor to have made this list in 2007.
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See the most iconic inventions of the past 25 years
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20 years ago the @darpa Grand Challenge changed history: https://t.co/nAYEMk8B51. Congratulations to everyone involved. PBS/Nova made this amazing documentary:
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Looking for engineers for an exciting agentic AI startup in San Francisco. Contact me at sthrun@gmail.com
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“If you go back to the beginning of homo sapiens, 300,000 years, give or take, invention came by thousands of years, tens of thousands of years. And now inventions come by the minute.” @SebastianThrun, founder of GoogleX, @Waymo, @udacity, and Kitty Hawk, talks about why he
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If a LLM hallucinates, we shrug. If a self-driving car hallucinates, it might run a red light and kill a person. These different error tolerances might explain why progres on AI agents has been slower than expected.
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Why is the trade deficit with China such a bad thing? It seems we are trading our new iPhones and laptops for stacks of (imaginary) paper. Bad?
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President Trump's war on global shipping and domestic consumption will inevitably cut carbon emissions. Why aren't environmentalist rejoycing?
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I really wish peace for Ukraine and Russia. That would be AMAZING. Too many people are dying every day with zero benefit to anyone. Everyone just loses. Please let there be peace!
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Saw it here first: the 28th amendment to the US Constitution will do to the 22nd what the 21st did to the 18th. Agree?
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Wow. Asking workers to report what they did last week freaks everyone out?? What planet do we live on?
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