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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

And so I think there's an amazing opportunity today to rethink everything.

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

It goes right back to Plato, who asked, how should we conduct ourselves?

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

We're right back there

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

5,000 years ago.

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

We're getting ready to launch an interspecies communications XPRIZE.

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

It's under design.

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

It's funded by someone amazing.

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

I'll tell you about it some other time.

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

And when we can start talking to animals and understand what they're saying and thinking, I think we're going to have a very different conversation around moral ethics and so forth.

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

My joke is I'm not sure we really want to hear what they have to say.

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

So long and thanks for all the fish.

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

Okay.

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

I apologize, folks, but one last question here.

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

Yes.

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

Well, the one project I'm most proud of is the reading machine for the blind, which I'm still involved with.

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

We came out as a large machine cost $20,000.

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

Now it's a free app on your cell phone.

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

And I guess that indicates what I'm most proud of is having an impact on people, being able to do things that they weren't able to do before, like, for example, reading.

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

or any type of we want to give life and all the aspects of life to every person.

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

So all the things that I will enable us to do live longer, live more healthily is beneficial.