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BIG TECHNOLOGY Prediction Not checkable as stated
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.”
Peter Diamandis Jul 29, 2024 ▶ 9:24 Peter Diamandis — Embracing AI, Befriending Elon, And Living Forever
BIG TECHNOLOGY Prediction Not checkable as stated
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.”
Peter Diamandis Jul 29, 2024 ▶ 11:36 Peter Diamandis — Embracing AI, Befriending Elon, And Living Forever
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Not checkable as stated
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.”
Peter Diamandis Jul 29, 2024 ▶ 11:54 Peter Diamandis — Embracing AI, Befriending Elon, And Living Forever
BIG TECHNOLOGY Prediction Not checkable as stated
Diamandis: Quantum Computing Will Come Online in the Late 2020s
“And then you've got quantum coming online second half of this decade.”
Peter Diamandis Jul 29, 2024 ▶ 12:41 Peter Diamandis — Embracing AI, Befriending Elon, And Living Forever
BIG TECHNOLOGY Prediction Not checkable as stated
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…”
Peter Diamandis Jul 29, 2024 ▶ 15:09 Peter Diamandis — Embracing AI, Befriending Elon, And Living Forever
BIG TECHNOLOGY Prediction Held up
Diamandis: Elon Musk will become the world's first trillionaire
“Elon will be the first trillionaire out there.”
Peter Diamandis Jul 29, 2024 ▶ 24:55 Peter Diamandis — Embracing AI, Befriending Elon, And Living Forever
BIG TECHNOLOGY Prediction Open · timeframe Jul 2044
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…”
Peter Diamandis Jul 29, 2024 ▶ 43:11 Peter Diamandis — Embracing AI, Befriending Elon, And Living Forever
BIG TECHNOLOGY Prediction Not checkable as stated
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.”
Peter Diamandis Jul 29, 2024 ▶ 46:42 Peter Diamandis — Embracing AI, Befriending Elon, And Living Forever
BIG TECHNOLOGY Prediction Open · timeframe Jul 2029
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.”
Peter Diamandis Jul 29, 2024 ▶ 52:25 Peter Diamandis — Embracing AI, Befriending Elon, And Living Forever
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
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…”
Peter Diamandis May 25, 2023 ▶ 9:20 The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
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.”
Peter Diamandis May 25, 2023 ▶ 12:13 The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail
a16z Prediction Held up
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?”
Peter Diamandis May 25, 2023 ▶ 1:04:28 The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail
BIG TECHNOLOGY Prediction Not checkable as stated
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.”
Peter Diamandis Jul 29, 2024 ▶ 1:44 Peter Diamandis — Embracing AI, Befriending Elon, And Living Forever
BIG TECHNOLOGY Prediction Not checkable as stated
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.”
Peter Diamandis Jul 29, 2024 ▶ 7:51 Peter Diamandis — Embracing AI, Befriending Elon, And Living Forever
BIG TECHNOLOGY Prediction Open · timeframe Jul 2027
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.”
Peter Diamandis Jul 29, 2024 ▶ 24:41 Peter Diamandis — Embracing AI, Befriending Elon, And Living Forever
BIG TECHNOLOGY Prediction Not checkable as stated
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.”
Peter Diamandis Jul 29, 2024 ▶ 39:47 Peter Diamandis — Embracing AI, Befriending Elon, And Living Forever
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Partly supported
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.”
Peter Diamandis Jul 29, 2024 ▶ 46:25 Peter Diamandis — Embracing AI, Befriending Elon, And Living Forever
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Diamandis: Proliferation of AI and robotics will lead to Universal Basic Income
“And so we probably will have some version of universal basic income. Coming down as more robots and AIs come online”
Peter Diamandis May 25, 2023 ▶ 50:37 The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail
a16z Assertion Contradicted
Diamandis: Emad Mostaque is running a countrywide AI education experiment in Malawi
“And by the way, you might as working on that right now, right? He's looking to provide every child in the nation of Malawi, a countrywide experiment.”
Peter Diamandis May 25, 2023 ▶ 1:05:48 The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Diamandis: Science Currently Extends Human Life by Four Months Per Year Lived
“Today for every year that you're live, science is extending your life for about a third of a year.”
Peter Diamandis Jul 29, 2024 ▶ 42:28 Peter Diamandis — Embracing AI, Befriending Elon, And Living Forever
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Diamandis: Sugar acts as a neuroinflammatory and cardiac inflammatory agent
“Sugar Is a neuroinflammatory agent, a cardiac inflammatory agent. It glycosylates proteins. It hits your immune system.”
Peter Diamandis Jul 29, 2024 ▶ 49:00 Peter Diamandis — Embracing AI, Befriending Elon, And Living Forever
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Diamandis: Generative AI is spawning tens of thousands of single-person startups
“Generative AI right now, which is a tool that's spawning not thousands, maybe tens of thousands of new startups you know, individual single person startups out of no place”
Peter Diamandis May 25, 2023 ▶ 4:53 The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail
a16z Assertion Contradicted
Diamandis: OpenAI operates as a 130-person company
“Open AI is a 130 person company.”
Peter Diamandis May 25, 2023 ▶ 11:56 The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail
a16z Assertion Supported
XPRIZE launches competition to detect and extinguish wildfires within 10 minutes
“We just launched an XPRIZE for wildfires. You can monitor a thousand square kilometers, detect a wildfire, add ignition, and put it out 10 minutes automatically.”
Peter Diamandis May 25, 2023 ▶ 1:04:18 The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail
a16z Assertion Partly supported
Diamandis: In 1996, Kodak had a $28B market cap and 140,000 employees
“So Kodak in 1996, the top of its game, the twenty eight billion dollar market cap, 140,000 employees.”
Peter Diamandis May 25, 2023 ▶ 43:01 The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail
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