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Eric Schmidt: Google | Lex Fridman Podcast #8
Those people are often entrepreneurs.
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They just know and they move fast.
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There are other people who are systems thinkers
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and planners, that's more who I am,
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somewhat more conservative, more thorough in execution,
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a little bit more risk of risk.
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A little bit more risk averse.
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There's also people who are sort of slightly insane,
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in the sense that they are emphatic and charismatic
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and they feel it and they drive it and so forth.
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There's no single formula to success.
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There is one thing that unifies all of the people
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that you named, which is very high intelligence.
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At the end of the day, the thing that characterizes
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all of them is that they saw the world quicker, faster,
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they processed information faster.
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They didn't necessarily make the right decisions
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all the time, but they were on top of it.
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And the other thing that's interesting
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about all those people is they all started young.
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So think about Steve Jobs starting Apple
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roughly at 18 or 19.
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Think about Bill Gates starting at roughly 20, 21.
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Think about by the time they were 30,
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Mark Zuckerberg, a good example, at 19, 20.
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By the time they were 30, they had 10 years.
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At 30 years old, they had 10 years of experience
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of dealing with people and products and shipments
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and the press and business and so forth.
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It's incredible how much experience they had
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compared to the rest of us who were busy getting our PhDs.
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Yes, exactly.
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So we should celebrate these people
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because they've just had more life experience, right?
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And that helps inform the judgment.
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At the end of the day, when you're at the top
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of these organizations, all the easy questions
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have been dealt with, right?
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How should we design the buildings?
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Where should we put the colors on our product?
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What should the box look like, right?
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The problems, that's why it's so interesting
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to be in these rooms, the problems that they face, right,
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in terms of the way they operate,
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the way they deal with their employees,
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their customers, their innovation,
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are profoundly challenging.
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Each of the companies is demonstrably different culturally.
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They are not, in fact, cut of the same.
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They behave differently based on input.
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Their internal cultures are different.
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Their compensation schemes are different.
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Their values are different.
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So there's proof that diversity works.
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So, so when faced with a tough decision,
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in need of advice, it's been said that the best thing
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one can do is to find the best person in the world
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who can give that advice and find a way to be
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in a room with them, one on one and ask.
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So here we are, and let me ask in a long winded way,
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I wrote this down.
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In 1998, there were many good search engines,
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Lycos, Excite, AltaVista, Infoseek, Ask Jeeves maybe,
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Yahoo even.
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So Google stepped in and disrupted everything.
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They disrupted the nature of search,
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the nature of our access to information,
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the way we discover new knowledge.
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So now it's 2018, actually 20 years later.
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There are many good personal AI assistants,
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including, of course, the best from Google.
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So you've spoken in medical and education,
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the impact of such an AI assistant could bring.
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So we arrive at this question.
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So it's a personal one for me,
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but I hope my situation represents that of many other,
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as we said, dreamers and the crazy engineers.
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So my whole life, I've dreamed of creating
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such an AI assistant.
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Every step I've taken has been towards that goal.
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Now I'm a research scientist in human centered AI
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here at MIT.
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So the next step for me as I sit here,
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so facing my passion is to do what Larry and Sergey did
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in 98, this simple startup.
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And so here's my simple question.
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Given the low odds of success, the timing and luck required,
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the countless other factors that can't be controlled
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or predicted, which is all the things
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that Larry and Sergey faced,
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is there some calculation, some strategy
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to follow in this step?
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Or do you simply follow the passion
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just because there's no other choice?
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I think the people who are in universities
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are always trying to study
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the extraordinarily chaotic nature of innovation
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and entrepreneurship.
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My answer is that they didn't have that conversation.
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They just did it.
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