Sebastian Thrun
@SebastianThrun
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CEO StealthStartup, Adjunct Prof at Stanford and GaTech
Joined June 2011
Taxing unrealized capital gains might place Silicon Valley entrepreneurs like myself in jail. Udacity stock went up and down (on paper!), but at its "unicorn" prime I would not have been able to pony together the cash necessary to pay those taxes. Jail time for people who build?.
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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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Can we give @elonmusk and @VivekGRamaswamy options for the US economy worth one trillion dollars, contingent on the Dow hitting $60,000 (inflation-adjusted)? There is only one person in the world who can do this. It would be a small price to pay.
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This is me!! One of over 1,000 successful flights so far by about 15 different riders.
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Sad to see so many promising AI startup throwing the towel. Are we all back to getting rich fast? Or did those founders all believe that hype is business success? Sad.
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I really wonder why so many AI companies seem to blindly compete for building the same thing: the best foundational models, as measured by some abstract set of benchmarks. It feels like there is now an entire ecosystems of companies that want to outperform GPT.x. Why?.
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Proud to announce that @Udacity has signed the @WhiteHouse Pledge to America’s workers and will fund 100,000 scholarships to empower America’s workers with the tech skills they need to future-proof their careers!
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I LOVE the fact that so many AI companies are open sourcing their models. Thank you for placing humanity above shareholders and investors.
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Extremely proud to have met PM @narendramodi at #ETGBS. Super inspired about our impact with @udacity in India and worldwide. Thank you @UdacityINDIA
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The AI hype is now finally and officially over. Let numbers (like: growth, revenue, margins, EBITDA) reign once again.
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So proud to be an immigrant! I love my country (new and old :).
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My favorite book review on "Probabilistic Robotics"
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I just spent time with one of the very largest @udacity enterprise customers, and I learned that they observed a stunning 82% graduation rate from our nanodegree programs. Amazing. We must be doing something right. So happy! Changing the world one learner at the time.
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I am excited to announce that I'm launching Sage AI Labs with @kuprel. Come to the hackathon we are hosting to find out more!
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Giving commencement speech at Georgia tech today. Excited.
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Just spotted this from my back yard. After rain comes sunshine. So beautiful.
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Today was an awful reminder of what happened in Germany on Feb 27, 1933. It didn't end well. I love the USA, I love the freedoms we all enjoy, and and I love democratic system. Let us be stronger than my ancestors in the Weimar Republic.
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Proof that a great journalist can make mediocre scientist look great:
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Now we know the cost of driving over a person and dragging her along with a self driving car: $9,200,000,000.
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I just spent a week without blame. No blaming me, no blaming others. Just enjoy everyone, love life, and live life to the fullest. It was amazing!.
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@StanfordAILab @askalphaxiv Excited to be an advisor to arXiv. It's an awesome project and a great service to the community. Finally papers aren't one way any longer.
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Super excited what the @udacity Self driving car team along with many of our students accomplished today. Will provide details soon.
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Take my lesson on how my @stanford research team used neural networks to detect + classify skin cancer!
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This article makes me insanely happy! .@tomfriedman thanks for explaining me how edu can transform the Middle East.
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It’s now totally obvious: Flight is the new transport. Be ahead of the curve! Join @Udacity
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The Cora prototype is the culmination of eight years of hard work from the entire @coraaero team at @kittyhawkcorp . Couldn’t be more proud. #meetcora”
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Perhaps our most exciting program ever!.
Thanks to our partnership with WorldQuant, you’ll get real-world experience in the fast-growing field of AI-powered financial trading.
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With @Infosys founder @NandanNilekani and @UdacityINDIA head @ishan_gupta at @ET_GBS in Delhi. Wish I had more hair :)
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Couldn't be more excited about @udacity 's willingness to offer a month of our classes for free. This is an unprecedented situation, and none of us knows where it will lead us. I sincerely hope we will emerge strong and united.
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Last week I did 5 Google searches and placed 28 questions with ChatGPT. Wonder if others here see similar patterns. So many questions I have on a daily basis are much better served with LLMs.
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Great day for @udacity and all companies and governments in the world. Thanks Team Chronicle.
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We acquired a company. A first. Super pumped about it.
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We are now truly democratizing software engineering. With LLMs, computers can be programmed in plain English. So anyone who is fluent in English can now be a programmer. Going forward, who would want to pay big bucks for "experts" to manually generate cryptic computer code? We.
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It’s an incredible time to become a Data Engineer! Our @udacity School of #DataScience just launched the Data Engineering Nanodegree program. Build an impressive portfolio of real-world projects and get valuable hands-on experience. Enroll today:
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It's real: Self driving car engineers are top earners:
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Just finished reading #Brotopia . Amazing book with lots of learnings. The USA has always led the way in civil rights and inclusive thinking. This book is a painful reminder there is still lots of work to do. Thank you @emilychangtv .
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I am very proud to share that @Udacity & @Intel have partnered to bring you a new scholarship program for Edge Development! Apply today for this awesome opportunity to learn most cutting-edge technologies #computervision #AI #deeplearning.
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Check out for some provocative thoughts on Artificial Intelligence. .
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Inspiring: “How I learned to code in my 30s” by Brad Crispin
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LLMs are like mirrors. They are trained with text written by people. So if we find their output to be harmful, we need to remember they just mirror back to us what's readily available on the Internet. Should we punish the mirror if we don't like what we see? Really?.
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Super impressive: AI applied to cancer detection. Learn the underlying software skills at @udacity
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Anyone want to work on autonomy for flight vehicles? Please apply:
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Excited we are offering voodoo master level C++. The type stuff that makes cars drive themselves. Only at @udacity
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A few days ago I had the opportunity to ask Sam Altman about the future of jobs in the age of AGI. He gave a brilliant answer: People and their jobs will evolve with the tools they use. Couldn't agree more. AGI will make work so much better for humanity. AGI will open entire new.
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Accurate and well-researched story by @bizcarson : … Wishing Oliver and his team all the best!.
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We finally have a noble price for computer science. Very exciting.
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This is really important for students of @udacity. Excited!
This is BIG: 🚀 Introducing Udacity Blitz—fully managed teams of Udacity alumni engineers scope & build your idea:
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Excited about the rebirth of #googleglass, the launch of #focalsbynorth (amazing!) and of course my first week into #magicleap. #magicleap is truly magical. Perhaps the most amazing visual AR experience ever. Can't wait for more apps available for the Leap!.
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Course Correction - a great read about GaTech and our joint Masters degree. So proud!!
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Excited to announce Autonomous Tech Scholarship in partnership with @KPIT for the students in India. Apply Now if you are passionate about self-driving cars like me -
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Another great partnership with @Google to bring free Kotlin courses for #Android development. It is one of the fastest-growing #programming languages on Github used by orgs like Netflix & Lyft. This is the #futureofwork! #coding #edtech.
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Impressive!.
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White House partners with Apple, IBM to encourage Americans to think outside 4-year degrees. Excited for .@Udacity to be part of this campaign.
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Don't pay $80k. At @udacity you can build a new career for less than $2k. And it'll be more fun. Learning through projects not boring professor videos!.
Was talking with someone last week about something unrelated + he remarked that he's upset about paying $80K for his daughter to "watch college lectures online" and it dawned on me that this could be the thing that finally bursts the bubble that Peter was talking about years ago.
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