Peter Diamandis
Executive Chairman, XPRIZE Foundation. On 2 shows, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Peter Diamandis is the founder of the XPRIZE Foundation, co-founder of Singularity University, and a serial entrepreneur behind ventures such as Zero Gravity Corporation and Fountain Life. He invests through BOLD Capital Partners and has co-authored bestselling books including Abundance and BOLD.
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2said about them ↓ Everything Peter Diamandis said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Diamandis: Smarter AI systems naturally become more benevolent and supportive
“Truly believe that as systems become more and more intelligent, they get more abundant minded, more loving of life more supportive.”
Diamandis: Advanced AI transformation will occur within two to five years
“This isn't playing out in your kid's lifetime or in 10 years, this is playing out in the next two to five years.”
Diamandis: AI Programming AI Will Trigger Near-Immediate Liftoff
“As soon as we have, you know, AI programming, AI Then liftoff occurs, you know, near, near immediately.”
Diamandis: AI Passed the Turing Test Months or Years Ago
“There was the Turing test of, you know, which got passed some months or years back without even being noticed. Because you can't tell the difference now in having a chat with a lot of the chat bots, whether they're human or not.”
Diamandis: Quantum Computing Will Come Online in the Late 2020s
“And then you've got quantum coming online second half of this decade.”
Diamandis: AI Will Become the Best Free Educator and Diagnostician Globally
“I think AI will become ultimately the best educator on the planet and the best diagnostician on the planet available on your mobile phone. And I think that educator Again, the best on the planet will be available for free to the poorest child and the wealthies…”
Diamandis: Elon Musk will become the world's first trillionaire
“Elon will be the first trillionaire out there.”
Diamandis: Elon Musk's ambitious ventures make him extraordinarily net-positive for humanity
“I think he's a thousand X better for humanity and the things that he's taking on the world's a better place because he's here investing his brilliance and his mind.”
Diamandis: AI and longevity are the planet's two biggest business opportunities
“AI and longevity are the two biggest business opportunities on the planet. There's nothing of greater opportunity, right?”
Diamandis: Longevity Escape Velocity Will Be Reached in About 20 Years
“Ray Kurzweil's prediction is 2030, which is insanely close, right? Why? It's because AI is going to help us understand why we age, how to slow it, how to stop it, how to reverse it. George Church puts it at some 15 years out. David Sinclair is in that same are…”
Diamandis: Anti-aging gene therapies will become cheap and globally accessible
“Yes, in the beginning when it doesn't work so well, it'll be paid for by the wealthiest and it'll be expensive. And then as it goes into production, it will be available for everybody. It will work extraordinarily well and it'll be cheap.”
Diamandis: Global population will peak around 9 to 9.5 billion before dropping rapidly
“And if you've got a massive underpopulation, right, we peak at nine, nine and a half billion and have a very rapid drop off.”
Diamandis: Heavy legacy organizations will likely not survive the 2020s
“The difficulty is we're going to see such massive disruption in this decade. Right, so if you're a large organization with the layers of management and a massive lead keel of assets and resources that you can't offload during ups and downs you're likely not to…”
Diamandis: Large corporations will survive by acquiring innovation, not building internally
“But it's going to be that the larger corporations are going to be surviving by buying innovation versus creating it inside in-house.”
Diamandis: XPRIZE competition aims to reverse human biological age by 20 years
“My biggest area right now is reinventing, disrupting healthcare a health span XPRIZE reverse your biological age or your functional age by 20 years, right?”
Diamandis: AI will become up to a billion times more powerful than humans
“It's going to continue to increase, and there's no reason to believe it's not going to get a hundred times or a thousand times or a million or a billion times more powerful than the average human.”
Diamandis: Human misuse, not AI itself, poses dystopian threat
“I don't think AI on its own is going to be dystopian. I think it's the human use of AI that could be dystopian.”
Diamandis: No single company will control superintelligent AI
“Ultimately, I believe that it is going to need to be decentralized and democratized. And I don't believe that we're going to have one central company control this.”
Diamandis: X will become a bank, wallet, and crypto platform
“And X now, X.com will become not only a platform for communications and for conversations like this. It'll become a bank. It'll become, you know, wallets. It'll become crypto. It'll become all of those things.”
Diamandis: AI will model cells, organs, and people for personalized medicine
“And what we're going next is the ability to model your cell in AI and then your tissue and then your organ and then you And no, this drug works for you, and this drug does not work for you.”
Diamandis: Moderna and Pfizer mRNA vaccines cost two dollars each to make
“So our mRNA vaccines from Moderna or Pfizer were gene therapies and they cost two bucks each, right? They were sold for 20 bucks or whatever the case might be. So we know that you can mass produce gene therapies extraordinarily cheaply.”
Diamandis: Humanoid robotics and AI are the only solution to support aging populations
“I think the only countervailing force there is going to be humanoid robotics and AI that's going to allow us to support that aging population.”
Diamandis: Legacy companies must build exponential units outside their core
“The challenge is if you're a large established company, trying to retrofit your organization to become an exponential organization is almost impossible. And there's lots of reasons for it, right? You're basically fighting everything you've been doing for the l…”
Diamandis: Corporate missions focused solely on shareholder return fail talent today
“And unfortunately we see historically a lot of the traditional blue chip companies are like, you know, to provide outsized shareholder returns. I'm sorry, that's just not going to cut it today. A lot of the smartest you know, gen, whatever you want are looking…”
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