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Ray Kurzweil

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955 total appearances

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Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Why AGI Is Close but Not Here Yet | Ray Kurzweil | EP #261

That's how we've actually come up with all the medicines.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Why AGI Is Close but Not Here Yet | Ray Kurzweil | EP #261

People consider a few things that they've had experience with.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Why AGI Is Close but Not Here Yet | Ray Kurzweil | EP #261

They don't consider a billion.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Why AGI Is Close but Not Here Yet | Ray Kurzweil | EP #261

AI can consider a billion, which it actually did with the COVID vaccine.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Why AGI Is Close but Not Here Yet | Ray Kurzweil | EP #261

So it's the sheer brute force of the ability to process that much information.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Why AGI Is Close but Not Here Yet | Ray Kurzweil | EP #261

Yeah.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Why AGI Is Close but Not Here Yet | Ray Kurzweil | EP #261

Alex, over to you, my friend.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Why AGI Is Close but Not Here Yet | Ray Kurzweil | EP #261

I'll say, Ray, this is such an enormous pleasure.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Why AGI Is Close but Not Here Yet | Ray Kurzweil | EP #261

We've had a number of conversations over the years, conversations at parties.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Why AGI Is Close but Not Here Yet | Ray Kurzweil | EP #261

I think there was one time in the early 2000s when I had a conversation with a 3D avatar of you projected from the East Coast to the West Coast.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Why AGI Is Close but Not Here Yet | Ray Kurzweil | EP #261

conversations on the pod and now today you're on stage.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Why AGI Is Close but Not Here Yet | Ray Kurzweil | EP #261

Question for you.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Why AGI Is Close but Not Here Yet | Ray Kurzweil | EP #261

So we're showing right now one variant of your I think you call it your law of accelerating returns.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Why AGI Is Close but Not Here Yet | Ray Kurzweil | EP #261

And over time, this is a semi log plot.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Why AGI Is Close but Not Here Yet | Ray Kurzweil | EP #261

So linear on the horizontal axis, it's time.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Why AGI Is Close but Not Here Yet | Ray Kurzweil | EP #261

The vertical axis is logarithmic and we're seeing price performance.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Why AGI Is Close but Not Here Yet | Ray Kurzweil | EP #261

People don't consider that.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Why AGI Is Close but Not Here Yet | Ray Kurzweil | EP #261

or they consider it partially.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Why AGI Is Close but Not Here Yet | Ray Kurzweil | EP #261

That's why most of the people that came to this conference thought it would take 100 years.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Why AGI Is Close but Not Here Yet | Ray Kurzweil | EP #261

Right.