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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where DARPA comes up
How Waymo Is Using GenAI to Build a Better Driver
- ▶ 0:45 Sarah Wang He was an early pioneer in self-driving cars, working with Toyota and Stanford on DARPA's Grand Challenge before joining Google's self-driving car project, which then evolved into Waymo.
- ▶ 1:24 David George Maybe to start, take us back to Stanford, if you will, and that was when you first started working on the DARPA project, and maybe give us a little bit of your history of how you ended up from there to here. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:22 Dmitry Dolgov That was the next big step is, ah, a number of us, ah, from the DARPA challenge competitions, ah, started the Google self-driving, ah, project.
- ▶ 14:50 David George Um, but the DARPA school of thought is, um, you know, there's sort of a rules-based approach, right?
- ▶ 27:46 David George You and I have talked a bunch about, you know, you said like, hey, going all the way back to DARPA, um, you know, it's kind of the same stuff, right?
The Future of AI Is Amazing
- ▶ 2:40 Martin Casado So when I joined Stanford to do my PhD in 2003, Sebastian Thrun had just won the DARPA grand challenge, right?
Collaborative Disruption at DoD
- ▶ 2:02 Kathleen Hicks Think of DARPA funding early AI research at Stanford, the labs where Vince Cerf and Bob Kahn fathered the internet, and the grand challenges that road-tested technologies used in today's self-driving cars.
Crisis in Higher Ed & Why Universities Still Matter
- ▶ 52:39 Marc Andreessen And created the sort of modern federal funding complex of things like the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Health, DARPA, and so forth for funding, funding research.