How I Got Obsessed With AI Neuroscience

Before joining Google, I was sure I'm going to be in academia. In the junior year at Harvard, I noticed that some of the smartest, hardest working people around ended up taking summer internships with companies like McKinsey and BCG. And so a year later, I decided to postpone my plans of going into grad school and getting PhD and instead I applied to work at Google. They looked for people that are fascinated with large problems and are genuinely driven by curiosity. So I really felt at home with the culture there. And I just stumbled into the Android team, which was 25 people at the time and ended up being one of the first members of what played or became the most popular