Sebastian Thrun on Physical AI and the Future of Work
Long before ChatGPT made AI a household word, Sebastian Thrun was already building it, winning the DARPA Grand Challenge with Stanley, founding Google X and Waymo, and launching Udacity to democratize tech education.
In this episode of WaveSession #1, Thrun joins Jeff and Ilya for a wide-ranging conversation on physical AI, the collapse of the hardware-software divide, and why the next decade of innovation will look nothing like the last.
Thrun opens by revisiting the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, where his team's self-driving car, Stanley, navigated 130 miles of Mojave Desert terrain using…
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