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title: "EP #125 The Man Who Predicted AGI Decades Ago w/ Ray Kurzweil"
description: Ray and Peter discuss 2025 predictions, Job loss in the coming years, and Ray’s thoughts on nanotech taking over the world.
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# [EP #125 The Man Who Predicted AGI Decades Ago w/ Ray Kurzweil](https://www.diamandis.com/podcast/ray-kurzweil-agi-prediction)

 Written by [Peter H. Diamandis](https://www.diamandis.com/podcast/author/peter-h-diamandis) | Oct 24, 2024 7:00:00 AM

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.*

## YOU WILL LEARN ABOUT

- 12:44 | AGI Predictions Prove Conservative
- 27:06 | The Future of Jobs with Robots
- 57:30 | The Future of Humanity: AI Evolution

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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