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Why AGI Is Close but Not Here Yet | Ray Kurzweil | EP #261
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Kurzweil's AI Self-Pod and the Dad Bot: Talk to Books
At 47:06 · chapter starts 46:50
An audience member asks about uploading consciousness. Kurzweil describes the dad-bot built with Talk to Books — what he believes was the first LLM — and his upcoming AI self-pod launching with his memoir.
At the midpoint of the Human Genome Project, less than 1% of sequencing was done. Critics predicted 200 years to completion. Then, in the final year, 90% was completed because sequencing doubled annually.
At the halfway point of the Human Genome Project, less than 1% of the genome had been sequenced, causing critics to predict 200 years to completion — but the project finished on schedule because sequencing doubled each year.
