Astro Teller

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540 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 28 Jul

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Leap Academy with Ilana Golan · Google X's Astro Teller: Why the Biggest Breakthroughs Start with Failure | EP167 · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

But if I gave you money because you claimed you could card count and then you just like went wild and you're just like randomly doing stuff and you happened to win, I would say shame on you and I wouldn't give you any more money.

Even though you had won, you had taken my money and grown it.

Because what I really care about is do you have a process that works?

And I want you to feel pride about that.

Now imagine you go to Vegas with some of my money.

I stand over your shoulder, and you are perfect at counting the cards, figuring out the statistics and how they're changing, and you play every hand perfectly relative to the statistics.

And you just get unlucky, and you lose some of my money.

I would say, great job.

Take more of my money.

I will play that game all day long.

The reason I take you and your listeners through that is that's what innovation should be like if you care about efficiency.

Side note, innovation is really easy if you don't care about efficiency.

You just find a lot of smart people, you throw a lot of money at them, and you'll get some innovation.

It's just not efficient.

But if you want it to be efficient, you have to get people to abandon tying their pride to the outcome and tie their pride instead to a set of habits which tend to result in radical innovation efficiently.

Now, easy to say, very hard to do, so then you have to find hundreds of different ways to send them signals that you actually mean that you want that and reward them when they do behave that way.

If people want to hear more about some of this,

the our podcast is a deep dive into these stories the creators these people who've gone through x i think it's really wonderful but we also have this master class certificate course if people want to dig in more to the sort of operations some of these habits and how to tie them together i think the master class on breakthrough innovation that we did would be a good way for your listeners to have that experience

thousand computers needed to be you know to be there to identify a cat or something there right so how did we get from there to here can you walk us through a little bit of speaking of the formula like what was it so i mean by the way if people are interested there's a deep dive on our podcast on this but i'll tell you the teaser bit this came to be because there was a professor at stanford whose name was andrew ing who had had in retrospect

maybe it seems like a really obvious discovery now, but at the time it broke artificial intelligence orthodoxy.

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