Ben Gilbert: commitment

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…Seems more likely than not to me, that at a minimum OpenAI would not exist. Then there was what Larry wanted to do, option three, build robo taxis. Ultimately, that is at least right now, what they would end up doing. We could do a whole episode about this journey, but we will just hit some of the major points for the sake of time. The big thing to keep in mind here, neither Google nor the public really knew if self-driving was something that could happen in the next two years from any given point or take another 10. Just to illustrate it, for the first five years of Project Chauffeur, it did not use deep learning at all. They did the Larry 1000 without any deep learning and then went another 3½ years. Wow, that’s crazy. And yet totally illustrates, you never know how far away the end goal is.…

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