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Ray Kurzweil

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

That's not going to be the case in the future.

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

AI, first of all, it's going to merge with us.

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

It's going to be part of us.

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

And the kind of decisions that you make as a meat body is going to be influenced by AI.

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

And both of the decisions will be made by AI inside yourself.

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

Two things.

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

One, there was a letter published today on X or Twitter where somebody asked, I think it was ChatGPT, if you were to write a letter to humanity, what would it be?

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

And it's profoundly beautiful.

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

It's worth going to read.

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

Now, it's trained on a corpus of human data, so you would expect something like that.

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

Where I get excited is in government policy.

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

Right now, if you ask the Federal Reserve to drop inflation by 1%, they're operating on reports that are at least a quarter old.

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

they are guessing, they're looking at politics and who's president or not and how the rest of the government, we're basically just guessing.

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

There's three or four dials and knobs.

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

If you could have an AI tracking all financial transactions in real time, calculating and projecting out where the future will be of different fiscal balances and monetary policy, what's the M2 going to be, money supply going to be in a few months, it's going to make a profoundly better

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

set of connections as to how to draw.

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

And we would come back with, here are eight things you could do.

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

Pick five of these and you'll do it.

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

And then you can pick those five and just do it.

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

I think that opportunity to run government policy using AI is absolutely profound.