Yeah, technology.

What is it all about?

I was teaching at Stanford and went to my co-instructor and said,

hey, should we take our class online?

He looked at me.

It was like a specialized class on something called artificial intelligence.

We gave those students the exact same homework assignments and exams as we gave Stanford students.

And then we stack ranked at the end and asked

who is better. Is there Stanford students or the online students? It turned out the top

412 students were online and the single best Stanford student ranked number 413.

Hello and welcome to Dan in the Valley, your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes and

inside the minds of the top people in tech. I am your host, Danny Fortson, West Coast correspondent

for the Sunday Times. And thank you. Thank you for tuning in. This week, we're going to be

positive. So the world feels, uh, you know, pretty dark

right now. So I thought I'd bring on somebody who, uh, who sees the bright side, who's

concentrating on how the pandemic can change things for the better in amidst all of this

terribleness. And he's actually trying to help those changes come to life and come to

life quickly. This week's guest is none other than Sebastian Trune, who, if you don't know,

is kind of a big deal out here. So his resume is a little ridiculous. He was a Stanford

professor of artificial intelligence, computer science. He launched Google X,

this secretive research lab that's been at Google now for years. He's the father of the self-driving car

industry, having launched what is today known as Waymo back then. It was known as chauffeur out of Google.

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