The following is a conversation with Eric Schmidt. He was a CEO of Google for 10 years and a chairman for six more

guiding the company through an incredible period of growth and a series of world-changing innovations.

He is one of the most impactful leaders in the era of the internet and the powerful voice for the promise of technology in our society.

It was truly an honor to speak with him as part of the MIT course on artificial general intelligence and the artificial

intelligence podcast and now here's my conversation with Eric Schmidt.

What was the first moment when you fell in love with technology?

I grew up in the 1960s as a boy where every boy wanted to be an astronaut in part of the space program.

So like everyone else of my age, we would go out to the Calpasture behind my house,

which was literally a Calpasture and we would shoot model rockets off and that I think is the beginning.

And of course, generationally today, it would be video games and all the amazing things that you can do online with computers.

There's a transformative inspiring aspect of science and math that maybe rockets would bring wooden stone and individuals.

You've mentioned yesterday that eighth grade math is where the journey through mathematical universe diverges from many people.

It's this fork in the roadway.

There's a professor of math at Berkeley at word Franco.

I'm not sure if you're familiar with him.

I am.

He has written this amazing book.

I recommend to everybody called Love and Math to my favorite words.

He says that if painting was taught like math, then students would be asked to paint a fence,

which is his analogy of essentially how math is taught.

You never get a chance to discover the beauty of the art of painting or the beauty of the art of math.

So how when and where did you discover that beauty?

...