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Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:07:47 David Rosenthal So, in June, 20 10, Demis and Shane managed to get invited to the Singularity Summit in San Francisco, California.
- ▶ 1:08:05 David Rosenthal The Summit, the Singularity Summit, organized by Ray Kurzweil, a future Google employee, I think, chief futurist, noted futurist, Eliezer Yudkowsky, and Peter Thiel.
- ▶ 1:08:36 David Rosenthal So, they finagle their way into Demis getting to give a talk on stage at the summit.
- ▶ 1:09:07 David Rosenthal They architected the presentation at the summit to be a pitch directly to Peter.
- ▶ 1:09:53 David Rosenthal Turns out Peter wasn't actually that involved in the conference.
- ▶ 1:10:58 David Rosenthal He give a talk on stage as part of the conference.