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Why AGI Is Close but Not Here Yet | Ray Kurzweil | EP #261
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Moonshot Mates Origin Stories and Founding of Singularity University
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Peter Diamandis, Salim Ismail, and Dave Blundin share how The Singularity Is Near changed their lives and how Singularity University was founded — including the famous dinner pitch where Kurzweil said yes immediately.
Peter Diamandis read The Singularity Is Near while backpacking in Chile, made notes in the margins, and immediately saw the need for a university to teach exponential thinking. He pitched Kurzweil over dinner. Kurzweil said yes immediately.
Large language models don't truly understand physics — they infer from text but don't model how things interact. And home robotics is too expensive and too dumb. Both gaps close by 2029.
