Astro Teller Quotes

Today, there are industries employing hundreds of thousands of engineers creating artificial intelligence.

The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day.

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

Technology has to be invented or adopted.

I joined Baidu in 2014 to work on AI. Since then, Baidu's AI group has grown to roughly 1,300 people, which includes the 300-person Baidu Research. Our AI software is used every day by hundreds of millions of people.

Coding is like writing, and we live in a time of the new industrial revolution. What's happened is that maybe everybody knows how to use computers, like they know how to read, but they don't know how to write.

It seemed really amazing that you could write a few lines of code and have it learn to do interesting things.

Machine learning is the most popular course for people from India. There is a window of time when India can embrace and capture a large fraction of the AI opportunity. But it will not remain open for ever.

You could say I was too lazy to calculate, so I invented the computer.

I came in as an engineer and worked on artificial intelligence at Google. I worked on related sites and matching advertising to queries with some of our earliest ads.

We're just technologists.

Software increasingly defines the world around us.

I am betting on Google's team to be the epicenter of future breakthroughs.

Computers add convenience to our everyday lives, but we are limited in what we can do with technology others have imagined. The ability for humans to teach machines entirely new things - coding - is nothing short of a superpower.

I'm fascinated by artificial intelligence.

It's going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will definitely be cool.

I think Google is a great company, and they're doing really cool things. But they're not doing things that are going to put us, I think, into the next generation of technology.

Yeah, computers are going to take over the programming business because they have become so fast recently that they can solve the Halting Problem in five seconds flat.

No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.

If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

When you apply computer science and machine learning to areas that haven't had any innovation in 50 years, you can make rapid advances that seem really incredible.