Ray Kurzweil

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So, Ray, one of the questions I'd love to ask, we just saw a story where Demis Hassabis, who you know, said he doesn't, that 50-50, whether we need another breakthrough, a fundamental breakthrough in AI to get to AGI.

What do you think?

Well, I think we need two things for this to understand physics.

Like, it doesn't really understand physics.

It can infer that

from the wording, but it really doesn't understand how different types of things would interact.

Google has announced a project to do that.

That, I think, will take, I think, until 2029.