Astro Teller on Moonshots, Self-Driving Cars, and the Future of Innovation
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This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host. This is the James Alteger show. What does it take to make a moonshot? kind of discovery, a discovery or invention or advance in science that's going to change the entire world. So for instance, obviously landing on the moon was such a moonshot.
So many technologies were were developed along the way to finally put a man on the moon. And similarly, My guest today has worked on everything from basically the invention and widespread development of self-driving cars. He's worked on the latest innovations that created all this AI that we're seeing right now in our lives. He worked on augmented reality, in particular with Google Glass, and so many other
Like one one thing we we talked about quantum computing, we talked about drones that will drop off your groceries right on your backyard. So many things. My guest is Astro Teller. He is the founder at Google of their Moonshots laboratory. It was originally Google X and now it's simply called X.
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