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Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

The Singularity Countdown: AGI by 2029, Humans Merge with AI, and Intelligence Multiplies 1000x | Ray Kurzweil | 223

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

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4.8 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2026

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Get access to metatrends 10+ years before anyone else - https://qr.diamandis.com/metatrends   Ray Kurzweil is an American inventor and futurist best known for his pioneering work in optical character recognition and his predictions regarding the technological singularity. Salim Ismail is the founder of OpenExO Dave Blundin is the founder & GP of Link Ventures Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross is a computer scientist and founder of Reified – My companies: Pre order "We Are As Gods" at diamandis.com/book Apply to Dave's and my new fund: https://qr.diamandis.com/linkventureslanding     Go to Blitzy to book a free demo and start building today: https://qr.diamandis.com/blitzy   _ Connect with Peter: X Instagram Connect with Dave: X LinkedIn Connect with Salim: X Join Salim's Workshop to build your ExO  Connect with Alex Website LinkedIn X Email Listen to MOONSHOTS: Apple YouTube – *Recorded on January 15th, 2026 *The views expressed by me and all guests are personal opinions and do not constitute Financial, Medical, or Legal advice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

It feels like we're in the midst of the singularity.

0:03.0

Do you agree that we're actually in the midst of it right now,

0:06.0

or are we going to have to wait for some other point to get there?

0:09.0

One difference of my own perspective versus everybody else is...

0:14.0

Ray Kurzweil, the inventor and futurist, who's been working in the field of artificial intelligence.

0:19.0

Ray Kurzweil, author, inventor, and futurist.

0:21.6

I've been now in AI for 61 years, which is actually a record.

0:26.6

If you look at your 120-odd predictions from 30-odd years ago,

0:29.6

only three that were wrong.

0:32.6

Your first prediction, as you said, that you released in 1989

0:35.6

was that we're going to reach human-level AI by

0:39.0

by 2029.

0:40.0

The next 10 years will get us to my definition of singularity, which will all be at least

0:46.4

a thousand times more intelligent.

0:49.3

What is most exciting to you and what are you anticipating most excitedly in the next, say, year or two?

0:54.8

We'll have supercomputers, but we'll also be merging with them, so we're going to be made a lot

0:59.5

more intelligent than we are today. When? That's going to happen at the same time for everybody.

1:09.2

Now that's the moonshot, ladies and gentlemen.

1:14.2

Everybody welcome the Moonshots.

1:15.7

The conversation gets you ready for the future and prepares you for the supersonic tsunami coming our way.

1:21.6

I'm here with DB2, AWG, and Saleem gentlemen.

1:26.1

2026 is off to an extraordinary year.

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