X Prize's Peter Diamandis: "Talking to your dog and extending life"

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Do you want to talk to your whales? Monkeys? Your dog? AI will make it possible. The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Peter Diamandis to talk about why he set up an $111m longevity prize (2:30), using AI to prevent death from “something stupid” (8:30), growing up in the Bronx (11:50), falling in love with space exploration (14:00), launching the X Prize (19:50), doing 30 of them in 30 years (26:30), his approach to AI innovation (29:15), speaking to animals (30:00), the power of a prize (33:00), why its hard to get the mega-rich to fund ideas (39:30), optimism (44:50), climate change (47:00), the future of longevity (51:00), and bitcoin (57:00).

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0:00.0	I'm always up before the birds and the kids.
0:02.9	Good thing Costa Express is always up too.
0:07.0	Early starts are easier with great coffee.
0:09.7	And if I grab one for Bob, I might even get some decent company.
0:14.5	Large cappuccino for the bloc who's half asleep.
0:17.2	Oh, you legend.
0:19.6	Now that's a proper coffee.
0:21.3	Should kick in Justin Samfut to remember which end of the screwdriver to use.
0:25.1	Hmm.
0:26.3	Costa Express.
0:27.8	Quality coffee every time.
0:32.3	Yo.
0:34.0	Technology.
0:35.2	What is it all about?
0:36.8	The data is there in large language models will give us the ability to interpolate between species.
0:43.4	It's happening right now. There are teams working on it.
0:46.1	That you'll be able to communicate and it's going to be for a number of animals.
0:51.3	It will not just be auditory. It will be visual as well.
0:54.8	You have to ask your question, do you believe that cats are able to communicate between themselves
1:00.3	or dogs are able to communicate between themselves?
1:02.9	And if they can, then there is consistent communications and we just need to interpret it.
1:20.4	Okay. We just need to interpret it. Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes and inside the minds of the top people in tech this week.
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