If you could make something one percent smarter than a human, your artificial attorney or accountant would be better than all the attorneys or accountants out there. You would be the richest person in the world. People are chasing that. Anthony Levandowski Read Quote
If you ask people whether a computer can be smarter than a human, 99.9 percent will say that’s science fiction. Actually, it’s inevitable. It’s guaranteed to happen. Anthony Levandowski Read Quote
I think, like all big things, you don’t know they’re going to be a big thing when you start. You just kind of, like, play because it’s fun, and it’s interesting, and then it turns out to be way more important than you expected. Anthony Levandowski Read Quote
After I joined Google and stopped working on robots – I’d built some self-driving tractors on farms in the meantime – I was always tinkering and playing with robots at home and just as a hobby. Anthony Levandowski Read Quote
I like incremental improvements or at least seeing where you’re going to go and really being able to understand what’s feasible at the time. Anthony Levandowski Read Quote
In 2003, my mom actually gave me a call, which is funny because she works at the European Union in Brussels, Belgium, and let me know that there’s a cool competition with robots across the desert. And I thought this was definitely something I wanted to be a part of. This was the first DARPA Grand Challenge. Anthony Levandowski Read Quote
There was a pizza delivery robot from 2008, where I built a Prius to deliver pizza from downtown SF to Treasure Island. Anthony Levandowski Read Quote
