Ray Kurzweil

We just saw a story where Demis Hassabis, who you know, said 50-50 whether we need another breakthrough to get to AGI.

What do you think?

Well, I think we need two things.

So we've made a 75,000 million trillion fold increase over this 75 years.

But AGI will happen by 2029.

The large language models have only been effective for the last six months.

We're being really affected by the exponential growth.

A year ago, large language models were okay.

Now they're really very effective and we're really going to be able to feel that in the future.

If you could send a message back in time to the 1960s or 1970s for how to avoid plateaus and just speed up progress toward the singularity, what message would you send back in time?

I think we have to consider

It's a pleasure to invite everybody to an afternoon with an extraordinary man, Ray Kurzweil, with my moonshot mates, my co-author Stephen.

Ray, you've been a mentor, a business partner, a co-author for me personally, and just an incredible guide for many of us.

Ray Kurzweil is called the relentless genius by the Wall Street Journal, the ultimate thinking machine by Forbes, the rightful heir to Thomas Edison by Inc.

Magazine.

PBS named him as one of the 16 revolutionaries who made America.

He invented the first CCD flatbed scanner, the first print to speech reading machine for the blind, the first text to speech synthesizer, and the first music synthesizer capable of recreating a grand piano.

He's a National Inventors Hall of Fame inductee, a National Medal of Technology recipient,

a Grammy Award winner.

He holds 21 honorary doctorates and has been honored by three U.S.