Ray Kurzweil on the Future of Pharmaceuticals | MOONSHOTS

In this episode, Ray and Peter discuss 2025 predictions, Job loss in the coming years, and Ray’s thoughts on nanotech taking over the world.

Recorded on Oct 18th, 2024
Views are my own thoughts; not Financial, Medical, or Legal Advice.

Ray Kurzweil is a world-class inventor, thinker, and futurist, with a thirty-five-year track record of accurate predictions. He has been a leading developer in artificial intelligence for 61 years – longer than any other living person. He was the principal inventor of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, omni-font optical character recognition, print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, text-to-speech synthesizer, music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition software. Ray received a Grammy Award for outstanding achievement in music technology; he is the recipient of the National Medal of Technology, was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, and holds twenty-one honorary Doctorates. He has written five best-selling books including The Singularity Is Near and How To Create A Mind, both New York Times bestsellers, and Danielle: Chronicles of a Superheroine, winner of multiple young adult fiction awards. His new book, The Singularity Is Nearer was released on June 25th and debuted at #4 on the New York Times Best Seller list. He is a Principal Researcher and AI Visionary at Google.

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[stevethompson]

Complete respect for Ray. He has been about the best at making technology predictions.

[Itsallfun]

This is the exciting area for me. So much promise to eradicate pain and suffering

[galailliz]

First comment. Money is going to go away

[ddr]

If we simulate different human biologies, then that means the human brain would've been completely mapped, right?

[csmilescsmiles]

He speaks of eternal life through AI. I have listened to him extensively. Nope. Jesus is the ONLY way to eternal life. He is not a believer in the work of the cross. He seems to be a very intelligent, nice person, but being a nice person will not save you.

[js_es]

The day we can get over human trials. That would be crazzzzyy. Lets hope.

[ShannonJosephGlomb]

lol so covid was secret AI like covid = covert and 19 is AI in the alphabet haha jokes but odd

[ExecutiveZombie]

He’s Sloshed. 😂 Cannot wait for his AI Pharma. Yay! ☠️🫡🇺🇸

[XAirForcedotcom]

Ray stop telling us we have to live forever. I deserve better than that. If the world was running fairly, that would be one thing, but that’s not what’s happening.

[nonlinearthinking]

AI driven healthcare will never work if the current medical treatment is not working. An LLM can only be trained on existing data. An AI healthcare would never condemn sugar or carbs & consider all calories to be equal. It would advise us against saturated fats, eggs, healthy carnivore and so much of propaganda that is published as medical research. How would even Elon programme a truth seeking AI when the data base itself is wrong. AI for healthcare needs to be trained on metabolic health and treatment which on itself is rare.